NINA SIVOSOVA

"As a teenager, I've been passionate about rock music for a long time, listening to all the classic rock bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jethro Tull, Yes ... and all the bands of this wonderful era through the Rock meets Classic I was also very happy to play Persona Grata in the Slovak prog-rock band, which gave me the impetus to learn saxophone, and this instrument became my new passion and opened many doors for me. Classical music is still my mainstay, because it expresses all the emotions, so of course it is irreplaceable.I like a wide range of music styles, the most important thing for me is to be connected to the music that is, they have a great power, energy and groove but above all they should touch my heart. "

"My name is Nina Sivosova and I was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. My mother is a pianist, so I have always been surrounded by music since my early childhood, which has created my deep relationship to music and has become part of my personality. At the age of 5 I started to play the recorder and three years later I switched to the flute, at the age of 11 I won the first place at the Slovak National Music School Competition and in 1999 I was chosen to play a flute Concerto with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. I went to high school to become a Specialist at the Conservatory, and was honored by the Boulder International Young Artists Festival in Colorado, USA, in 2001 and 2002. I was then invited to play a small tour in San Francisco, California representing the Slovak culture In 2001, I was the European leader in the project "The Young Musicians of Europe" I was a member of a woodwind quintet and a flute-cello-piano-trio through Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2002 and 2003 I participated in the International Music Festival for Contemporary Music SPACE in Belgium, the Netherlands and Slovakia. In the summer of 2003 I was a member of the Isny ​​Opera Festival Orchestra in Germany. I studied for a year at the conservatory in Plzn, Czech Republic. In 2006 I won the 1st place in the National Competition of the Slovak Conservatories. I participated in many flute seminars of famous flutists like Kaspar Zehnder (Switzerland), Hansgeorg Schmeiser (Austria), Emmanuelle Réville (France), Jan Ostrý (Czech Republic). From 2006 to 2011 I studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, and graduated with a Bachelor and a Master. During my studies, I became a member of the Slovak Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and also performed at several concerts of the Slovak National Philharmonic. After graduation I spent several months in London and then went back to Slovakia, where I started teaching at the Music School and cooperating with the excellent harpist Maria Kmetkova. We founded "duo nu: ovo" and focus mainly on contemporary music for flute and harp.

In 2010 I got the great offer to become a member of the Bohemian Symphonic Orchestra Prague on the Rock Meets Classic Tour. This year I've been on the tour for the fifth time, playing with some of the biggest names in the history of rock music such as: Ian Gillan - Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Mick Box & Bernie Shaw - Uriah Heep, Joe Lynn Turner - Rainbow, Kim Wilde, Dan McCafferty - Nazareth, Lou Gram - Foreigner, Les Holroyd - Barclay James Harvest, Midge Ure - Thin Lizzy, Visage, Utravox, Marc Storace - Krokus. "

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