Ivo Pogorelich

Known for: Acting

Born: October 19, 1958 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Ivo Pogorelich is a Croatian-Serbian concert pianist. Pogorelih won the Casagrande Competition in Terni, Italy, in 1978 and the Montreal International Musical Competition in 1980. In 1980 he entered the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was eliminated in the third round, resulting in controversy.