Miroslav Tadić, without a doubt one of most successful musicians born in our country, is going to perform at 18th Jazz Fest in Sarajevo on 07 November introducing a joint project with brothers Teofilović under the name Vidarica.
The Tuzla born musician spent his childhood in Belgrade and went to Los Angeles after high school where he pursued guitar studies at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts and stayed as a professor of acoustic and electric guitar for more then three decades.
The respected Guitar Player Magazine once called Tadić one of 30 most radical and most distinctive guitarists in the world while an another magazine, Acoustic Guitar, included his album Window Mirror among 5 records one should bring to an deserted island.
Tadić is most known in our region for collaborations and albums with Vlatko Stefanovski, with whom he recorded one of most important releases of Balkan music Kruševo, and Rade Šerbedžija, but he has a more then respectable discography, performances and collaborations with numerous famous artists like Placido Domingo, Wadada Leo Smith, Markus Stockhausen, Kudsi Erguner, Maria Joao, Dušan Bogdanović.
He performed at Jazz Fest twice – in 2001 when he opened the 5th Jazz Fest Sarajevo with Stefanovski when they played two sold out concerts and five years later as a member of The Grande Mothers Re:invented ensemble that plays the music of Frank Zappa, one of Tadić’s musical ideals.
Even though he will mostly say that his interest in music from Balkan grew from a distance, after he moved to the United States of America, Tadić’s discography contains some of most important interpretations of traditional songs from this region like the once on his albums Kruševo or Treta Majka, both recorded with Stefanovski, and joined by kaval player Theodosii Spassov on Treta Majka.
The concert that Tadić is going to play with Ratko and Radiša Teofilović on 07 November as Sarajevo’s Bosnian Cultural Center within 18th Jazz Fest will for sure bring special atmosphere of Teofilović’s angelic voices accompanied by instrumental skillfulness of Miroslav Tadić. Tickets can be booked with a 20% pre-sale discount here.