Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

Pianist Djordje Stevan Nesic's career includes recital, concerto, chamber, collaborative and vocal coaching work. This season, Mr Nesic appears in recitals and concerts at Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center, the Ravinia Festival Rising Star Series, the Trinity Church, The Cell Theater, St Anne's School, Murray State University and St Francis College. He will perform on tour with two projects, "This Little Light of Mine" and "Femmes Fatales". Most recently, he appeared at the Lincoln Center Meet the Artist series, Carnegie's Weill Hall, the United Nations General Assembly Hall, The World Food Prize Ceremony in Des Moines, Iowa, the River to River Festival NYC, Ico Gallery in Tribeca, Princeton Club (NYC), Riverside Church and Trinity Church. In the summer of 2009, he participated in the Greenwich Music Festival, coaching and performing Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis. He has prepared and performed the operas Dinner and Delusion by Michael Sahl and Nancy Manocherian, and Clarence and Anita by Benjamin Yarmolinsky at the Cell Theater in New York, in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Opera. In January 2007, he appeared at Carnegie's Weill Hall with soprano Hanan Alattar in the recital sponsored by the Marilyn Horne Foundation.

In November 2006, Mr Nesic performed with soprano Monica Yunus at an event honoring her father, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Prof. Mohammad Yunus. He has also been invited as a panelist for the Opera America's discussion "Who's In Charge Of Rehearsal", alongside with Christopher Alden and Michael Barrett. In March 2006 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with bass-baritone Daniel Gross in a series of Lieder Workshops and a recital led by the famed German artist Thomas Quasthoff. Across the US he performed in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New York, Cleveland, Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago, and has participated in the Glimmerglass Opera, Tanglewood, Cleveland Art Song, the Lake Luzerne Chamber Music and the Aspen Music Festivals. Currently, Mr Nesic lives in New York City where he is an artist in residence at the Broadway Presbyterian Church. He has been associated with the Juilliard School, the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY, the University of Texas in San Antonio, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival and the California State University in Long Beach, CA.

In 2006, Mr Nesic worked with the Houston Grand Opera, preparing Audra McDonald for her HGO debut in the double bill of Michael John La Chiusa's Send (Who are You? I Love you) and Poulenc's The Human Voice. Mr Nesic is in great demand as a vocal recital collaborator, as well as an opera coach/diction coach/repetiteur, and specializes in Slavic diction (mostly Russian and Czech). He has worked with conductors such as Julius Rudel, James Conlon, Stewart Robertson, David Angus, Reinhardt DeLeeuw, Gerald Steichen and Robert Spano. His recital activity includes appearances in many recitals sponsored and organized by Glimmerglass Opera, both in New York City and in the Cooperstown area. With Glimmerglass Opera, Mr Nesic has participated as a performer and panelist in live radio shows, recorded and broadcast on NPR affiliated stations in Albany (WAMC) and Rochester (WXIX). He has performed on live TV broadcasts from The World Food Prize Ceremony in Des Moines, Iowa, and from New York for FUJI television, Japan.