Nina Feric

Nina Feric, born in Zagreb, Croatia, began her musical studies at the age of 6. She obtained her Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy from the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in the class of Prof. Veljko Glodic, and continued her studies at Postgraduate Course in Music Disciplines at DAMS Bologna (Italy). 

She also studied under the masterly guidance of famous pianist Prof. Nina Kazimirova (Ukraine), and in masterclasses of distinguished pianists, such as Marina Horak (Slovenia), Sebastian Benda (Switzerland), Walter Groppenberger (Austria), Valerij Voskobojnikov (Ukraine), Anatolij Katz (Russia), Michalis Christodoulides (Greece), David Dubal (United States), Joseph Banowetz (United States) and Nancy Lee Harper (United States/Portugal). 

Over the years, she won numerous prizes, awards, and scholarships, and performed in a large number of concerts, recitals, and festivals. Among these, the most noteworthy are the Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Croatia) and the first Grand Piano Festival in honor of Vladimir Horowitz in Aveiro, Portugal. As the only representative of Croatia at the renowned Festival of Nations in Rome 2010, Feric held a solo concert at the historic Teatro di Marcello, sponsored by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the City of Rome. In 2011, Feric was invited by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Province of Frosinone to hold a solo recital for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Union of Italy. 

The wide scope of her music interests and talent has brought her recognition in various fields of pianistic activity. Feric’s performances across Europe have established her as an excellent chamber musician and soloist, as well as an artist open to exploring the values of cinematic music and soundtracks. She has collaborated with numerous musicians and chamber ensembles all over the world, and has appeared on Croatian Television, Italian RAI, Portuguese RTP, and Mexican Aztec TV. She recorded for Croatian Radio and several Italian radio productions, and collaborated with the Lions Club in the realization of several beneficiary concerts. 

Holding dozens of recitals and concerts organized in honor of the great Enrico Morricone, Feric became a renowned expert in a wide range of his works. 

In 2017, Feric held a recital in Madeira, organized by the Madeira Conservatory of Music, performing her own piano arrangements of soundtracks by Morricone, Rota, Zimmer, Mancini, Tiersen, Piovani, Bacalov, Zigman, etc., for which she received numerous appraisals, and which later led her to perform various cinematic music programs all over Europe. 

Feric began her teaching career upon graduation in Croatia, and up until her transfer to Italy, she held the position of professor of piano at “Blagoje Bersa” in Zagreb. She attended masterclasses and seminars in piano pedagogy held by music pedagogy experts, such as Mariann Abraham (Hungary), Arbo Valdma (Lithuania/Germany), Marina Ambokadze (Georgia), and Konstantin Bogino (Russia/France). She continued her teaching career in Italy, and for several years she collaborated with Italian Association “A. Toscanini” (Civitanova, Marche) as a piano teacher, and later continued teaching private lessons while dedicating herself to concert activities. In addition to a series of awards which she won for her educational work, Feric’s students continually won the highest international awards in piano performance. 

In 2010, Feric obtained official status in Italy as the internationally renowned artist with the highest professional qualifications. Feric is also known to the general public as the creator and coordinator of the educational project “English in Music,” included in the school curriculum in several European countries. 

This project was added to the list of the most important international projects dealing with music and language (usingenglish.com/articles/learning-english-with-music.html) and her research texts have been cited in numerous undergraduate and doctoral theses all over the world. 

In addition to her musical studies, Feric also studied art history, comparative literature, and foreign languages and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, thus developing a second career path as translator and interpreter, collaborating with European institutions, several universities and academic literary magazines, major streaming networks, and numerous translation agencies. 

She started publishing her piano compositions on her YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/pianomaster48) in 2020. She also participated in several film music and film scoring competitions. She composes music for piano solo, as well as for different chamber ensembles and symphonic orchestra. She is a member of Croatian Composers’ Society. 

Her compositions for piano are also recognized by the modern music scene, and famous Italian DJ Matteo Paggi “Mattway” arranged and recorded electronic versions of some of her works. 

In November 2022, PARMA Recordings released Feric’s first album, as both composer and performer, entitled PEOPLE, PLACES, MOMENTS, which achieved excellent listening results worldwide. For that album, she received two prestigious international Global Music Awards in the “Contemporary Classical Music” genre, two bronze medals, as “instrumentalist” and “emerging artist.” An album promotion/presentation concert was held in the Croatian Composers’ Society in Zagreb in December 2022. 

At the beginning of 2023, Feric returned to Croatia, where she continues to compose and perform.