Djordje Stevan Nesic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in piano performance from the Belgrade Academy of Music. In 1992 he came to the U.S. to pursue a career in music, which includes recital, concerto, chamber, collaborative, church music and coaching work. Currently, he lives in New York City where he is an associate vocal coach at the Juilliard School and an artist in residence at the Broadway Presbyterian Church. Djordje became a part of the Broadway Community in the fall of 2001.

Djordje’s career includes recital, concerto, chamber, collaborative and vocal coaching work. This season, Mr. Nesic appeares in recitals at the Ico Gallery in Tribeca, Princeton Club (NYC), Riverside Church, and Trinity Church. In January 2007, he appeared at Carnegie’s Weill Hall with soprano Hanan Alattar in the recital sponsored by the Marilyn Horne Foundation. The summer of 2007 was his fifth season with Glimmerglass Opera. In November 2006, Mr. Nesic performed with the Metropolitan Opera 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 U.S. 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. He is a roster member of the Swiss Global Artist Foundation.

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 and Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, and has since continued working with her privately in preparation for her LA Opera debut as Jenny in Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of The City of Mahagonny. 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 recent 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 many live radio shows, recorded and broadcast on NPR affiliated stations in Albany (WAMC) and Rochester (WXIX). He has also performed on a live broadcast from New York for FUJI television, Japan. His activity for season 2007/08 takes him to the Florida Keys, Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, around New York City, and back to Texas and California.