Miroslav Tadic

Guitarist, composer, improviser and educator Miroslav Tadic completed his formal music training in the United States after studying in Italy and his native Yugoslavia. 

He has performed and recorded on acoustic and electric guitars in a wide variety of settings and musical styles, ranging from music of the Baroque and Classical periods to Blues, Jazz, Rock and World music. Tadic’s performing and recording credits include projects with Mark Nauseef, The Los Angeles Opera with Placido Domingo, London Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Symphony, The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen, Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Wadada Leo Smith, David Torn, Maria João, Jack Bruce, The Grandmothers of Invention, 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, Leo Records, Naive, Croatia Records, ENJA, Nine Winds, Naxos, Sony/BMG and many others. He performs regularly in Europe, North and South America and Japan.

Over the last three decades 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 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 Oscar-nominated  feature film “Seventy Two Days” by Danilo Serbedzija and the award-winning animation feature film “Blood of the Family Tree” by Christine Panushka.

An avid instrument-builder, Tadic largely performs and records on instruments of his own making.