Ivo Pogorelich

Ivo Pogorelić (Serbian: Иво Погорелић) (born 20 October 1958 in Belgrade, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian pianist. He went to Moscow at age 12 to study the piano. After winning a number of first prizes he became renown for not winning the first prize at the 1980 Chopin Competition in Warszawa and getting into a well-publicised row with the jury. He set up a foundation to assist young promising (then) Yugoslav a…