Lada Obradovic

Lada Obradovic is a Croatian jazz drummer and composer. After finishing bachelor drums performance program at Academy of Graz, Austria, she earned a masters degree of performance jazz drums at University of Bern in Switzerland. Besides French piano player David Tixier she is a co-leader of "Obradovic-Tixier Duo", multi awarded duo project born in 2016 (1st price Jazz À Vienne 2018, 1st price Jazz Au Phare 2018, 1st price Colmar Jazz Festival 2018, 1st price La Défense Jazz Festival 2019). In 2019 Lada got unanimously the price of the instrumentalist during the “42nd National Contest of La Défense Jazz Festival”. She immersed in charity work, and in 2018 she created and launched a new charity project using her own designed shoes “StartAs You Are”. Early 2020 Lada expands her philanthropic initiatives with the founding of the SAY.R association that besides “StartAs You Are” comprises a new fundraiser “Shelter At Your Reach” for abandoned and abused animals from Croatia and Bosnia. Lada is a "Bay Custom Drums” and “TRX Cymbals” artist. She designed the first Jazz Series of TRX cymbals called CLS. In 2019, Lada started to work on a Netflix series “The Eddy” with the Oscar awarded movie director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash), Emmy nominated Alan Poul and the Grammy awarded composer Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson, Alanis Morissette) among others.