{"id":16,"count":9,"description":"Website<\/a> - Schedule<\/a> - Wikipedia<\/a> - Facebook<\/a>\r\n \r\nPogoreli\u0107 was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogoreli\u0107 became a Croatian citizen.\r\n \r\nHe received his first piano lessons when he was seven and attended the Vojislav Vu\u010dkovi\u0107 Music School in Belgrade until he was 12, when he was invited to Moscow to continue his studies at the Central Music School with Evgeny Timakin. He later graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.\r\n \r\nIn 1976 he began studying intensively with the Georgian pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, who passed on to him the tradition of the Liszt\u2013Siloti school. They were married from 1980 until her death in 1996 from liver cancer.\r\n \r\nPogoreli\u0107 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. One of the adjudicators, Martha Argerich, proclaimed him a \"genius\" and resigned from the jury in protest.","link":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/tag\/pogorelich\/","name":"Pogorelich","slug":"pogorelich","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/happynote.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}