Nina Iorik

Nina Iorik is an outstanding 13-year-old pianist residing in Seattle, Washington.
She started her musical journey at the age of nine and currently studies with prominent pedagogue Dr. Nino Merabishvili.
Nina combines her piano playing with harpsichord and organ studies under Dr. Wyatt Smith. Nina is also a student of the
Seattle Chamber Music Academy (SCMA) and has performed numerous times with the SCMA’
s chamber music program at
Benaroya hall, Seattle.
Nina has also taken masterclasses with many acclaimed pianists, such as Robert Shannon, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Alvin Chow,
Steven Spooner, Natalia Trull, Anne-Marie McDermott, Joseph Rackers, Marina Lomazov, Eleonora Karpukhova, Paige
Roberts Molloy and others.
Nina is also a harpsichord student and continuo player at the Early Music Youth Academy (Seattle), which is part of the Seattle
Historical Arts for Kids Society. As a harpsichordist, Nina took lessons with acclaimed harpsichordists and fortepianists such
as David Breitman and Mark Edwards (Oberlin Conservatory of Music), and Jillon Stoppels-Dupree.
Nina is also a young composer and writes classical solos and duets for different instruments. Her works are used by local piano
teachers for intermediate students. In 2023, Nina won first place with her musical composition at the Reflections PTA Art
Competition.
As an addition to her music studies, Nina is an active member of several musical non-profit organizations: Back to Bach
International Music Society, ConChord Music (Music for mental health) and Project CliKK (diversity and accessibility for
musicians). Nina is giving free recitals and lectures about classical music at local schools, senior homes, and fundraising events.
Nina is a gifted musician with a deep sense of music. Despite her young age, Nina has won many awards at regional and
international competitions. She also takes part in music festivals in Europe and USA, such as Oberlin Piano festival 2023
(Ohio, USA), Peng Piano Academy 2022 with full scholarship (California, USA), Piano loop Festival 2022 (Croatia), Seattle
Young Artists Music Festival 2023 (Washington state, 2023), Russian Chamber Music Festival (Washington ,USA, 2020-
2023), Bach International Music Festival (Seattle, USA, 2020-2024), SonaFest (Washington state, 2021-2023), Virtuoso Artists
Seattle International Piano Festival (2021).
Awards:
• Pacific Northwest Piano Competition 2022 /23 Gold and Silver Medals.
• Grand -Pri x in chamber program and Gold medal in solo program at the International Music Competition " N ouvelles
Etoiles" ( France, Paris, 2023 ) .
• Two Gold with scholarship and one Silver meda l s at the Russian Chamber Music Festival in Seattle 202 0/21/22 )
• Two Gold and Silver medal s at the (Sonata-Sonatina Festival, Seattle 202 1 /22/23 )
• Seattle International Bach Piano Festival : Disting uish Gold Medal ist in numero us years 2020 /21/22/23) as well as
Award of excellence for the exceptional performance on a harpsichord in 2023 .
• Silver medal at the F. Chopin Piano Competition, Northwest Division, 2022 .
• Two Silver medal s at the Pacific International Piano Competition, 202 1 /22.
• Finalist of the César Franck International Piano Competition, Belgium 2022.