Natasa Hadjiandreou enjoys a rich artistic career that combines solo and chamber music performances, and a strong interest in education and teaching. As a co-founder of Arts Embrace Cultural Organization, a Cyprus-based non-profit organization, Natasa performs regularly around the island, and organizes workshops, seminars, masterclasses, and festivals that encourage creativity and the effective involvement of citizens in the artistic and cultural life of Cyprus. Through Arts Embrace, Natasa has established an important network of renowned artists around Europe and beyond, that collaborate towards providing performing and educational opportunities to Cypriots, as well as introducing new music to the public. Natasa holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music (Timpani and Percussion Performance) from the Royal Northern College of Music, where she graduated with Honors. She continued her studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome, 2012 &2015), where she specialized in orchestral repertoire under the guidance of the Academy’s principle percussionist Edoardo Albino Giachino. Her teachers include Simone Rebello, Ian Wright, Dave Hassell, Paul Patrick, Liz Gilliver and Nikolas Papageorgiou. She has also participated in master classes with Evelyn Glennie, Theodor Milkov, Nebosja Zivkovic, Eric Sammut, Mark Ford and Pedro Carneiro amongst others. Natasa was awarded the Wray and Gilbert Webster Prizes, and in 2012 she won the Concerto competition for young performers organized by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra for which she performed Emmanuel Séjourné’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings. Her most recent solo performances include Tan Dun’s Water concerto for Water percussion and Orchestra, also performed with the CySO. Her collaborations have taken her to Greece, Italy, France, Turkey, Poland, and Cyprus, and in renowned concert venues such as the Royal Festival Hall in London, and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. As a music educator, Natasa is currently teaching at the State Music Schools of Cyprus, at the Music Academy of the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra (CySO), at Sistema Cyprus, and at the University of Nicosia. Her teaching includes individual lessons, chamber music and percussion ensembles, and group classes of rhythm for all instrumentalists. Along with violinist Viki Hadjiandreou and pianist Andri Hadjiandreou they formed Trio Ostinato, a unique chamber music ensemble with which they perform in Cyprus and abroad. The Trio collaborates with Cypriot and other internationally acclaimed composers and presents contemporary works and world premieres of works dedicated to and/or commissioned for the ensemble