Ivo Pogorelic

Pianist

Birthday October 20, 1958

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Serbia

Age 65 years old

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About

Croatian musician who was stricken with chronic rheumatic fever when he was a child and hepatitis when he was 21.

Before Fame

He was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory.

Trivia

He won the 1978 Casagrande Competition in Terni, Italy, and the 1980 Montreal International Musical Competition.

Family Life

He married his piano teacher Aliza Kezeradze in 1980.

Associated With

He and actor Forest Whitaker were both associated with UNESCO as Goodwill Ambassadors.