NATALIJA TOMIĆ
Serbia
Owing to her original approach in working with young talents, Natalija Tomić is one of the most eminent music pedagogues in the region. Her exceptionally broad and intense activity spectrum gave a significant rise in quality of piano teaching, which resulted in many invitations for holding workshops and courses all over Serbia. She is a long-time jury member for most local and a number of international competitions. She won over 150 first and special prizes with her students. Her class has given around forty graduate students, who successfully continued their education in Moscow, Kiev, Trieste, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Niš, Skopje and Sarajevo.
Natalija Tomić started her music education in her hometown, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia – Russia. She graduated from the Gnesin Music-Pedagogical Institute (nowadays the. Gnesin Academy of Music) in 1978, with Prof. I. Malinyina. During the course of her studies, and later, she successfully performed as a soloist and member of chamber ensembles. She had an engagement as a piano accompanist with the Moscow Satire Theatre and the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vladikavkaz. In that period, she was building her solo career, performing with chamber ensembles and started her pedagogical work.
Since 1980, her artistic and pedagogical activity has been continued at Music School "Dr Miloje Milojević" in Kragujevac.
Since 2007, Natalija Tomić has been teaching, as an Assistant Professor, at the piano department of the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac.
For her long-time successful creative activity in educating many generations of young talents, Natalija Tomić received numerous recognitions, such as: The charter for exceptional merits and contribution to the development of Music School "Dr Miloje Milojević'' in Kragujevac; the award from the Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia for the results achieved in music pedagogy; the award from the Association of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia for a long-time successful pedagogical activity.
