Nada Martinović

Nada Martinović (Нада Мартиновић, ) (born August 11, 1967) is a Serbian and American music educator, conductor and researcher from Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

After emigrating to the United States in 1997, 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.

From 2016 to 2018, Martinović was the publisher and chief operating officer of Women's Journals (Summit, Stark and Portage Counties). From 2019 to 2020, she worked as a partnership specialist for the United States Department of Commerce. Since 2010, she has been Adjunct Professor of Music at Kent State University and director of the Cleveland Serbian Film Festival. In 2014, she founded the non-profit organization, Serbian Heritage Project. 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 represented the Serbian community at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is a founding board member and a Serbian representative in the Eastern European Congress of Ohio, 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. Since 2018, she has been the conductor of the Serbian Men's Choir in Cleveland. In 2019, she became the coordinator and artistic director of the Serbian Cultural Garden during the One World Day festival.

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. The choir has performed at multiple venues and festivals and recorded one of their songs.

In honor of the 164th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, as part of the "Children of Serbia" project, 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).