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 artists to study abroad. The Ivo Pogorelich Festival was first held in Bad Wörishofen (Bavaria) in 1989, offering young artists the chance to appear alongside accomplished international colleagues.