Music Direction/Composition/Production
About
A classically trained pianist from Belgrade, Nikodia has worked in recording studios since she was 15. She toured the Balkans with her own band and played Exit festival before moving to Dubai, where she spent ten years as a performer, curator, and host, then became a Music Director at Awestruck Pro Creative Agency in 2023. She studied film and TV scoring, music therapy and music neuroscience at Berklee Online, and is driven by one mission: bringing back the importance of original music.
Selected work
- ISEA 2026 Dubai, International Symposium on Electronic Art – Music composition and direction for the Burj Khalifa projection show and the opening ceremony at Al Wasl Dome, Expo City Dubai. Traditional instruments (oud, qanun, nay and strings) meet electronic production, breakbeat and experimental sound design.
- Lucid Launch Event 2023 – The opening of Lucid’s first factory in Saudi Arabia. The brief: merge the brand’s Californian sound with Arabic tradition, technology and the future of the brand, all in one score.
- Chery Launch Event 2024 – A car reveal for AW Rostamani, staged across five screens, some of them moving on stage. The music was composed to follow every element of the show, cue by cue.
- 9th Saudi Film Festival 2023 – A cinematic, classical score for the festival’s opening animation, composed in just three hours from brief to final, with live piano and hand-shaped samples.
- Awestruck Pro Sonic Logo – Built to capture the spaciousness of the animation: a musical experience made entirely from sound design and electronic textures.
Unexplainable Music
The primary task of music composition is finding the right emotion in the brief. What is the feeling that the music has to provide? Is it something powerful and joyful, celebratory… or is it mystical, dark, ominous and hidden? Or is it maybe funny, silly, mean but innocent? Or does it make us feel at peace and connected to each other? What is the meaning of the narrative that the music can support? This is how all the scoring is approached: from the level of emotional intelligence.
Translating the emotion into pulse, rhythm, melody and, finally, harmony, and combining that with another experimental layer of timbre, tempo and flavor of the sound, is a challenge always worth taking. The compositions can align smoothly with the message only when the music is true to itself. The goal is goosebumps on the skin, closing eyes and being immersed in the unexplainable.
That’s how the Music is made.
Clients
Sonic branding and music composition for Awestruck Pro, MCH Global, AW Rostamani Automotive, Sheikh Zayed International Airport, Emirates Global Aluminium, iRead (Ithra), Athar Festival, International Petroleum Technology Conference, and RTV Studio B.
Music curation for Rolls-Royce, Red Bull, Sephora, Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss, DoubleTree by Hilton and more.
