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. While studying there, she has performed as soloist with Kaunas Chamber Orchestra in 2005 and 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.

From 2009 to 2014 she completed a degree at Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, and afterwards a masters degree at the Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen, graduating in 2018.

Nadia has been awarded several study scholarships in Denmark, among those, Arthur Anderssons Legat, Tove Birthe Legat, Feldthusens Fond. In 2017, Nadia performed as a soloist with Percurama percussion and wind orchestra in Radiohuset hall in Copenhagen and won a prize at RDAM piano scholarship competition. Since then, she has been actively engaged in Copenhagen music scene as pianist, concert organizer, and co-creator of various projects.

Nadia is a member of Copenhagen-based musician collective Damkapellet, which is active on Danish contemporary music scene since 2016 and has been awarded Carl Nielsens Talenpris in 2020.

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.

Currently Nadia is working on connecting her visual art with her work as pianist. Her paper and light installation has been a part of Vækst festival in Musikhuset København in September 2024, and in October 2025, her artworks will be exhibited at Aalborg Huset during Damkapellet Minifestival.