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About
Croatian musician who was stricken with chronic rheumatic fever when he was a child and hepatitis when he was 21.
Before Fame
He was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory.
Trivia
He won the 1978 Casagrande Competition in Terni, Italy, and the 1980 Montreal International Musical Competition.
Family Life
He married his piano teacher Aliza Kezeradze in 1980.
Associated With
He and actor Forest Whitaker were both associated with UNESCO as Goodwill Ambassadors.
