Marina Arsenijevic

She is known for playing on a transparent piano, recording popular albums in her native country, and performing on a PBS television show featuring her original compositions.

As she played the deeply interwoven Christian and Muslim melodies of "Kosovo" with tears flowing down her face, she noticed that the audience also began to weep as everyone in the concert hall realized that Yugoslavia, as a united multi- cultural nation, was no more.

Following the ouster of extremists, Marina was invited by the newly formed moderate government to return to Serbia for a European concert tour and over 300,000 fans came to hear the music that helped calm a nation torn apart by hatred and violence.

[6][20] Critics have described Marina as a "James Bond" beauty with a powerhouse technique that delivers an emotional punch like a "Balkan thunderbolt," while her compositions have been described as "breathtakingly original" and "captivating the soul".

[26] In 2013, Arsenijevic was interviewed by ABC NEWS channel WXYZ-TV about her joint concert with the Michigan Philharmonic called "Piano Adventures", which highlighted classical music heard in television commercials and benefited a children's charity.

[32] Marina was chosen to open the International Literary Peace Award in Dayton, Ohio in 2015, which was also the 20th Anniversary of the historic Dayton Peace Accords which ended the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II[33][25] In 2017, Arsenijevic opened the Commemoration Program at West Point honoring the 72nd Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz with her arrangement of "America the Beautiful" combined with Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude".

"[14] Additionally, Arsenijevic has attended celebrity events like Harper's Bazaar magazine's anniversary party and opening night at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

[7][4][36] In 2010, Arsenijevic received an Emmy nomination for her musical compositions performed on the PBS show "Marina at West Point: Unity through Diversity".

[3] [14] In 2018, Marina was elevated by Deputy Serbian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić to a Knight of the St. Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism, in a ceremony conferring honors on those who deserved high diplomatic recognition, (Vitez svetosavskog pacifizma) for her work in promoting Serbian culture and traditions through her mission of "Unity Through Diversity.