Nada Martinović

Nada Martinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Нада Мартиновић, Serbian pronunciation: [nada martǐːnoʋit͡ɕ]) (born August 11, 1967) is a Serbian and American music educator, conductor and researcher from Cleveland, Ohio.[1]

Nada Martinović
Born
Нада Нартиновић

(1967-08-11)August 11, 1967
Šabac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian-American
Other namesNada Martinovic-Trejgut
EducationKent State University,
School of Music
ChildrenLuka Trejgut, Viktor Trejgut
Scientific career
FieldsMusical cognition,
Child development
InstitutionsKent State University
ThesisThe Effect of Movement Instruction on Memorization and Retention of New-song Material Among First-grade Students (2010)

Early life and education

Martinović completed her primary and secondary education at "Muzička Škola Mihailo Vukdragović" in Šabac, Serbia. She continued her education at the Faculty of Music Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, majoring in Music Pedagogy and later advancing to becoming a professor.

Career

After graduating, she returned to Šabac and taught piano and solfeggio. She worked with students from kindergarten to high school. During the Yugoslav Wars, in collaboration with four other colleagues, she opened the first private music school in Šabac.[2]

After emigrating to the United States in 1997,[3] Martinović received a master's degree in Music Education from Cleveland State University in 2001. She earned her PhD at Kent State University by researching the connection between movement, memory and musical cognition. She presented the results of her scientific work at conferences including the International Society for Music Education. She also contributed to the National Children's Study, working on the analysis of the impact of the environmental factors on the health of young children.[1][2]

From 2016 to 2018, Martinović was the publisher and chief operating officer of Women's Journals (Summit, Stark and Portage Counties).[4] From 2019 to 2020, she worked as a partnership specialist for the United States Department of Commerce.[5] Since 2010, she has been Adjunct Professor of Music at Kent State University and director of the Cleveland Serbian Film Festival. She founded the non-profit organization, Serbian Heritage Project, in 2014. This was in cooperation with the Western Reserve Historical Society, to create an archive of the Serbian population in Northeastern Ohio.

Since 2013, Martinović has been representing the Serbian community at the Cleveland Museum of Art.[6][7] She is a founding board member and a Serbian representative in the Eastern European Congress of Ohio,[8] board member of the International Community Council – Worldwide Intercultural Network (ICC-WIN), and the Ohio representative of the Tesla Science Foundation.

Martinović teaches music and the Serbian language and is the conductor of St. Sava Children's Choir.[9] Since 2018, she has been the conductor of the Serbian Men's Choir from Cleveland. In 2019, she became the coordinator and artistic director of the Serbian Cultural Garden during the One World Day festival.[10]

St. Sava Children's Choir

Martinović founded the St. Sava Children's Choir in 2002. Children from Serbian churches in Cleveland, who are mostly American born, sing and learn the language of their ancestors.[9] The choir has performed at multiple venues and festivals and recorded one of their songs.[11][12]

In honor of the 164th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, as part of the project "Children of Serbia," St. Sava Children's Choir collaborated with Leontina Vukomanović's Choir "Čarolija", Folklore Group "Morava" from Cleveland, and the Serbian School "Nikola Tesla" from Niagara Falls and recorded the song and video "The Circuit" (2020).[13]

Bibliography
  • Parents' and Teachers' Perceptions of the Musical Development of Preschool Children Ages Two Through Four, scientific study (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 2001)
  • The Effect of Movement Instruction on Memorization and Retention of New-Song Material Among First-Grade Students, scientific study (Kent State University, Kent, OH, 2010)

References
  1. "Srpski cvetovi u klivlendskoj bašti", Radio Television of Serbia, September 3, 2015. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  2. "Nada Martinović čuvar srpstva u Ohaju", Naši u svetu, October 31, 2020. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  3. "Pokažimo svetu ujedinjenu Srbiju", Vesti, August 8, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  4. The Women's Journal, February-March 2017, Issuu. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  5. "Census 2020: What You Need to Know: Panelist Bios," February 2020, Cleveland State University. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  6. "Predani rad dr Nade Martinović", Serbian Mirror, October 2015. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  7. "Srbfest u Ohaju", Serbian Mirror, August 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  8. "Istočnoevropski glas iz 'ohajskog Mladenovca'", Radio Television of Serbia, April 26, 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  9. "Pesmom dočarali modernu Srbiju", Vesti, November 7, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  10. "Putovanje kroz vreme Biljane Regan i Nade Martinović", Radio Television of Serbia, October 14, 2015. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  11. "Himna srpskog dečjeg hora osvaja Ameriku", Radio Television of Serbia, September 13, 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  12. "Preslatko: Pogledajte nastup Dečjeg hora 'Sveti Sava' iz Klivlenda", Večernje novosti, September 23, 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
  13. "'Strujno kolo' za Teslin rođendan", Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, July 10, 2020. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
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