

Guitarist,
composer and improviser Miroslav Tadic completed his formal music education in
the United States after studying in Italy and his native Yugoslavia.
He
has performed and recorded in a wide variety of settings and musical styles,
ranging from music of the Baroque and Classical periods to Blues, Jazz, and
Rock. Tadic's performing and
recording credits include projects with Mark Nauseef, The Los Angeles Opera with
Placido Domingo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen,
Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Teofilovic Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, David Torn, Maria
João,
Jack Bruce, The Grande Mothers, Theodosii Spassov, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan
Gasparyan, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Ustad
Ashish Khan,
among others.
Tadic has recorded worldwide and his music can be heard on CMP Records, M–A Recordings, Third Ear, Avalon, Croatia Records, ENJA and Sony/BMG. He performs regularly in Europe, North and South America and Japan.
In recent years Tadic has concentrated on developing an approach to improvisation which combines and juxtaposes musical material drawn from many diverse sources, including Baroque, European classical and North Indian classical music, Flamenco, Eastern European folk traditions, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. He is noted for his pioneering work in applying the elements of classical and flamenco techniques to the electric guitar.
He
has composed solo and chamber music which is published by Les Editions Doberman-Yppan.
Tadic has written music for numerous experimental film, dance and theatre works
and most recently completed music for Croatian feature film “Seventy Two Days”
by Danilo Serbedzija.
Since
1985 he has been a professor at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts
in Los Angeles.
For more thorough and detailed information on Miroslav Tadic, please check out an excellent interview with him at: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/tadic.html