Nadia Okrusko pianist

Nadia Okrusko is a classical pianist from Lithuania, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her education as pianist has developed respectively in Lithuania, Russia and Denmark.

Her piano studies began at Ciurlionis National Arts School in Vilnius. As a student there, she has performed with Kaunas Chamber Orchestra in 2005.
From 2009 to 2014, she completed her first masters degree at Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, and afterwards studied at the Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen, graduating in 2018.

During her study years, Nadia has won prizes at several national and international competitions, including 1st prize at Rosalyn Tureck J.S. Bach piano competition in New York, USA in 2008. She has also been awarded several study scholarships in Denmark, among those, Arthur Anderssons Legat, Tove Birthe Legat, Feldthusens Fond, and has won 2nd prize at RDAM piano scholarship competition.

In 2017, Nadia performed as a soloist with Percurama percussion and wind orchestra in Radiohuset hall in Copenhagen.Since then, she has been actively engaged in Copenhagen music scene as pianist, concert organizer, and co-creator of various projects.

Nadia has performed at various music festivals in Denmark: Klang, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Vinterjazz, Vildskud Theatre Festival, Copenhagen Jewish Culture Festival, Sommerklassisk Tivoli, Talk Town, Copenhagen International Piano Festival, Spot, Vækst.
As soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Spain, France, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, USA, Mexico, Ecuador and China.