Nada Martinović

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Nada Martinović
Born	Нада Нартиновић (1967-08-11)August 11, 1967 Šabac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian-American
Other names	Nada Martinovic-Trejgut
Education	Kent State University, School of Music
Children	Luka Trejgut, Viktor Trejgut
Scientific career
Fields	Musical cognition, Child development
Institutions	Kent State University
Thesis	The Effect of Movement Instruction on Memorization and Retention of New-song Material Among First-grade Students (2010)

Nada Martinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Нада Мартиновић, Serbian pronunciation: [nada martǐːnoʋit͡ɕ]; born August 11, 1967) is a Serbian and American music pedagogue, conductor and researcher from Cleveland, Ohio.^[1][2][3]

Career[]

Martinović completed primary and secondary education in her native Šabac, attending at the same time primary and secondary music school – piano major, named after the composer and conductor Mihailo Vukdragović. She continued her education at the University of Arts in Belgrade Faculty of Music Arts – Music Pedagogy, obtaining the title of music professor. After graduating, she returned to Šabac and worked as a professor of piano and solfeggio. A year later, she revived the work of the kindergarten music class, while at the same time she coached her high school students and won the first place in the competition of the "Muzička omladina" youth organization. During the Yugoslav Wars, in collaboration with four other colleagues, she opened the first private music school in Šabac.^[3]

After emigrating to the United States in 1997,^[1] she continued her education, receiving a master's degree in music pedagogy and early childhood development from Cleveland State University (2001) and earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Kent State University in Kent (2010) by researching the connection between movement, memory and musical cognition. She has presented the results of her scientific work at many conferences, including the International Society for Music Education meetings in Copenhagen and in Porto Alegre and Brasília. Also, she had the honor of being a part of the National Children's Study, working on the analysis of the impact of the environmental factors on the health of the youngest.^[2][3]

She was the owner, publisher and chief operating officer of publication^[4] and worked as a partnership expert for the United States Department of Commerce.^[5] She is a professor of music at the Kent State University, director of the and founder and manager of the nonprofit organization , which she founded in 2014 in cooperation with the Western Reserve Historical Society to create an archive of the Serbian population in Northeastern Ohio.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2013, Martinović has been representing Serbian community at Cleveland International Community Day at the Cleveland Museum of Art.^[6][7][8] She is also a founding board member and Serbian representative in the ,^[9] board member and past Vice President of the , member of and the Ohio representative of the from Philadelphia. She teaches music and the Serbian language at the Serbian Sunday school and she is the conductor of St. Sava Children's Choir^[10] and since 2018 the conductor of the Serbian Men's Choir "Kosovo" from Cleveland as well. In 2019, she was entrusted with the position of coordinator and artistic director in the during the One World Day festival. Nada is the author of numerous exhibitions, lectures and cultural events.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

St. Sava Children's Choir[]

Martinović founded the St. Sava Children's Choir in 2002 with the aim to introduce, practice and perpetuate Serbian culture, language and tradition. Children from both Serbian churches in Cleveland, who are mostly American born, sing in it and learn the language of their ancestors through singing.^[10] The choir performed at the Kent State University in 2014 and 2016, Cleveland Museum of Art in 2014, 2015 and 2019, Cuyahoga Community College in 2015 and marked the 70th anniversary of the One World Day festival in 2015 in the Serbian Cultural Garden with an original "Children Musicking" performance.^[2] The following year, 2016, the choir recorded its first song "Flowers from Cleveland Garden," which is enriched with a video and became the choir's anthem.^[16][17]

In honor of the 164th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, as part of the project "Children of Serbia," which was organized by the and supported by the Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, St. Sava Children's Choir collaborated with Leontina Vukomanović's , Folklore Group "Morava" from Cleveland and the Serbian School "Nikola Tesla" from Niagara Falls and recorded the song and video "The Circuit" (2020).^[18]

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)

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