Miroslav Tadić (musician)

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Miroslav Tadic is a classically trained guitarist from Serbia with Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian roots.

In the January 1997 issue, the editors of Guitar Player magazine voted Miroslav Tadić one of the world's thirty most radical and individual guitarists. Most recently, Tadić has been exploring Macedonian music in his recent work with guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski and vocalist Vanja Lazarova. Since 1985 he has been teaching at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

Tadic completed his formal 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 Terry Riley, the Los Angeles Opera with Placido Domingo, David Torn, Jack Bruce, Dusan Bogdanovic, L. Shankar, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, Theodosii Spasov, Kudsi Erguner, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Djivan Gasparyan, Markus Stockhausen and Maria João, among others. He is frequently heard in Europe, Japan and the United States.

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, 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.

Miroslav's numerous recordings on ENJA Records, CMP Records, M.A Recordings, Sony Classical, and many other labels have won international critical acclaim. He has written music for a number of award-winning experimental film, theater, and dance works. Since 1985 he has been teaching at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

In 2005, he joined Frank Zappa alumni, he Grande Mothers Re:Invented with bassist, Roy Estrada, keyboardist, Don Preston and vocalist/saxophonist Napoleon "Murphy" Brock and Christopher Garcia - drumset/marimba to perform the music of Frank Zappa while still maintaining his own hectic teaching and touring schedule with various ensembles performing his music.