She started her musical journey at the age of nine and currently studies with prominent pedagogue Prof. Nino Merabishvili. 

Nina combines her piano playing with harpsichord and organ studies under harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels-Dupree and 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 studied at SCMA under the guidance of a Seattle’s Symphony concertmaster Noah Geller, prof. Craig Sheppard, pianist Sasha Starcevich, violinists James Ehnes and Rachel Lee Priday, cellists Efe Baltacigil, Meeka Quan di Lorenzo and Michael Kannen, violist Susan Gulkis-Assadi. 

Nina is also a young composer and writes classical solos, duets, chamber and orchestra music. In 2025, Nina won first and second places with her musical compositions at the SMTA Composition Competition.  In 2025 and 2026 Nina was selected to the Merimann-Ross Young Composers Workshop. Her composition “The Miracle”, written for a pierott ensemble, was performed at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony musicians, during 2024-2025 season. Her new composition will be also performed by the Seattle Symphony musicians in June 2026. Nina is a member of Seattle Composer Alliance, since 2026.

Nina become a commissioned composer for the Sempre Music Festival in 2026 and her orchestral work “Sketches of the North” will be performed by the Sempre Music Orchestra in Boston.

Nina’s works are used by local piano teachers for intermediate students.

Nina had her debut with a Sempre Musick Orchestra under baton of Mark Latham in Boston at the age of 13 and played Chopin Piano Concerto N.2 in F minor.

She also performed Mozart Concerto n. 21 in E Major with Europa Musica Orchestra in Perugia, Italy, under baton of Marius Stravinsky; Sammamish Symphony Orchestra, under baton of Adam Stern. Nina also had her debut at the Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU with this Concerto in 2025 and performed a world premiere of a new cadenza, written by Gerardo Teissonniere.

Nina has also taken masterclasses with many acclaimed pianists, such as Maria Joao Pires, Ilana Vered, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Pierce Lane, Robert Shannon, Orion Weiss, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Andrey Gugnin, Dmitry Shishkin, Nicolas Namoradze, Alvin Chow, Steven Spooner, Enrico Eisi, Rebecca Penneys, Natalia Trull, Anne-Marie McDermott, Gerardo Teissonniere, Joseph Rackers, Marina Lomazov, Eleonora Karpukhova, Paige Roberts Molloy, Marta Aznavoorian, Jean-David Coen, Alexandre Moutouzhkine, Andrew Armstrong, Le Ho Hai, Andreas Frolich, Philip Raskin, John Weems 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). In 2026 she won Gold Medal for her performance on a harpsichord from the International Moscow Moscow Music Competition.

As an addition to her music studies, Nina is an active member of several musical non-profit organizations. She served the community as a Regional co-director at Back to Bach International Music Society, and currently working as a Director of Global Operations. Nina also is a member of a Composition Committee. In addition, Nina is a Vice President at the PNW student based musical non-profit ConChord Music and Managing Director at Project CliKK.

Nina is giving free recitals and lectures about classical music at local schools, senior homes, and fundraising events. 

In 2024-2025 season in partnership with Project Clikk Nina started a series of interviews “Composer of the month” on YouTube. This series of intimate interviews explored the lives and works of classical music's living composers. .

In 2024 Nina started her other project “Hearts in Harmony” - accessible concert for autistic kids. Nina’s initiative was widely supported by the local community, as well as got a national recognition with a NASSP grant for students and media sponsorship from the Seattle’s Classical King FM.

Nina a verified music tutor with AWSOM and DoReMi Project. She is teaching piano, harpsichord and music theory and history.

Nina is a gifted musician with a deep sense of music and won many awards at regional and international competitions. See her awards below.

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