Надица Ристиќ-Симовиќ

Nadica Ristić Simović began her education in Skopje, where she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies with the highest grades in the class of Prof. Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska. As a student she performed throughout Macedonia and at national and international competitions, including winning 1st Prize at "Ohrid Pearls". She is currently principal oboe of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and principal oboe of the festival orchestra "Opetosa".

During the previous decade she was principal oboe at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet and at the F.A.M.E. Symphony Orchestra for film-music recording based in Skopje. Ristić Simović is active as a soloist and chamber musician, performing across the former Yugoslav republics in various chamber ensembles, and as a soloist she appears within the regular concert seasons in Podgorica and Skopje.

She has performed at festivals including Autumn Music Festivities, Ohrid Summer, Days of Macedonian Music, Budva City Theatre, and Bar Chronicle, with particularly significant performances with the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and the Macedonian Philharmonic.

Alongside her solo career she is continuously engaged in teaching as a professor of oboe and chamber music at the "Vasa Pavić" School of Music and Ballet, and through master workshops including the Ivanova Korita Summer Chamber Music Camp organized by KIC "Budo Tomović". In this area her students have achieved notable results, winning more than 50 prizes at national and international competitions.