NADIA OKRUSKO
PIANIST

Nadia Okrusko is a Copenhagen-based pianist with versatile musical and artistic interests and practises. She is active on local music scene as a performer, concert organizer, collaborative pianist, and co-creator of various artistic projects.

Her musical education took shape in Lithuania, Russia, and Denmark, combining classical training with a growing interest in contemporary and cross-disciplinary work.
Nadia's piano studies began at the Čiurlionis National School of Arts in Vilnius in 1997. As a student, she has performed solo with Kaunas Chamber Orchestra in 2005. In 2008, she was awarded the 1st Prize at the Rosalyn Tureck J.S. Bach Piano Competition in New York. Parralel to this, she has also studied the harp at J. Dvarionas music school, and painting at J. Vienozinskis visual art school in Vilnius.
 

From 2009 to 2014, Nadia completed her first piano masters degree at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. In 2015, she has moved to Copenhagen, completing her second  degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2018, with prof. Niklas Sivelöv. During this time, she has received several  Danish study scholarships, performed as soloist with the Percurama Percussion and Wind Orchestra at Radiohuset Hall in Copenhagen, and won a prize at RDAM Piano Scholarship Competition. Since 2016, Nadia is also a member of Damkapellet, a Copenhagen-based international musician collective dedicated to new and experimental music and music by female composers. Damkapellet received the Carl Nielsen Talent Prize in 2020. 

Nadia has performed in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, and locally at different Danish festivals, such as Copenhagen Opera Festival, Klang, Spor, Vinterjazz, Sommerklassisk Tivoli, Jødisk kulturfestival, among others.

Currently, Nadia is working on developing projects that connect music performance and visuals; her art installation was exhibited at Vækst Festival in Musikhuset København, 2024, and her artworks were exhibited at Tilgang Udstillingsrum in Aalborg in 2025.