Biography

Nikola Radic was born in 1998 in Serbia and started playing the horn at the age of nine in the music school "Mokranjac" in the class of professor Bozur Jovicic. He then transferred to music school "Stankovic" in the class of professor Miloš Ðordevic, where he finished primary and secondary music school. He finished his Bachelor degree at the Faculty of Music and Arts in Belgrade in the class of professor Milan Radic. During the second year of his Bachelor degree he went through the "ERASMUS +" 6-month student exchange program to the United Kingdom at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2021, he started his masters degree at the Mozarteum University, Salzburg, with professor Radovan Vlatkovic. 

Nikola took part in master classes with Radovan Vlatkovic, Thomas Hauschild, Zdenek Divoky, Laszlo Seeman, Frøydis Ree Wekre, Jindrich Petras and others and studied in the Hornclass Course at the Crescendo Summer Institute in Hungary. He´s also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the academy's intensive music weeks and activities.

Nikola has won many 1^st prizes and laureates at domestic and international competitions such as the “Republic Competition in Belgrade”, the “International Competition Davorin Jenko”, the “International Competition Petar Konjovic”, among others. 

He was a member of the European Spirit of Youth Orchestra with which he performed eleven concerts in Italy in 2017. Since 2018, he has been working as a part-time associate in the Belgrade Philharmonic. From 2022, he will be an academist with the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra.