Nina Rakić, conductor, born in 2000 in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, completed her primary and secondary music education at the Piano Department of Petar Krancevic Music School in Sremska Mitrovica with honours. She also completed primary music education at the departments for percussion instruments and solo singing in the same school. She possesses absolute pitch. She is currently in her senior year of undergraduate academic studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, the Conducting Department, mentored by Professor Biljana Radovanovic, M.A. Her grade point average to date is 9.97/10.
While in secondary school, she won awards at republic and international level competitions that were on the calendar of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. She is the recipient of St. Sava Award of the town of Sremska Mitrovica. For three years she received the scholarship awarded by the Fund for Young Talents of the Ministry of Sports and Youth of the Republic of Serbia. As of October 2021, she is the recipient of the scholarship for exceptionally gifted students in the Republic of Serbia, awarded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development.
Since May 2018, she has been engaged as an accompaniment associate for rehearsals of the “Serbica” Choral Arts Ensemble from Sremska Mitrovica, led by conducting Professor Vladimir Opačić, M.A., lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
In the summer of 2020, she successfully carried out the choral online performance of the finals for freshmen students of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, who performed the contemporary spiritual piece Absolve me (Pomiluj) by Nikoleta Radulovic, a student of composition. The performance was posted on Youtube as the final project.
Within the framework of the international project Opera: Past, Present, Perfect!, in cooperation with the Music Opera Theatre Organization MOTO and under the auspices of Creative Europe, she acted as the assistant conductor on the project of Britten’s opera for children The Little Sweep. Under the scope of the same project, she is currently engaged on preparation of a miniature opera Clean Water (Čista voda) composed by Olga Jankovic, which will be performed and recorded at the Little Theatre Duško Radović.
At the end of both her sophomore and junior years of the academic studies, she took the finals in conducting as her main subject at the Military Club in Belgrade, where she conducted the Art Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence Stanislav Binički. Both times she was awarded the highest grade (10/10) by a three-member jury panel.
She attended the choral workshop within the project From the Young, to the Young in Belgrade, where she was categorized as one of the highest-ranking participants and as such conducted the choirs of St. Sava Temple at the final concert held on September 20th, 2021.
In November 2021 in Dubrovnik, she was an active participant in a seven-day masterclass led by Professor Uros Lajovic. During the seminar she collaborated with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, with which she performed at the final concert of the masterclass participants.
In July 2022 in Belgrade, she was an active participant in a seven-day masterclass led by Maestro Martin Akerwall. The participants had the opportunity to work with the Belgrade Chamber Orchestra, composed mostly of renowned musicians from the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.