Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic

The correct spelling for this duo is Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadi?. Please correct your tags. Vlatko Stefanovski (Macedonian: ?????? ???????????) is an ethno-rock jazz fusion guitar player from the Republic of Macedonia. Born in Prilep in 1957, he started playing guitar at the age of 13. Stefanovski was one of the founding members of Leb i sol with whom he recorded 13 albums between 1978 and 1991. He currently splits his time playing with his VS Trio, in an acoustic partnership with Miroslav Tadi? or composing for film and theatre. He is the brother of dramatist Goran Stefanovski.

Vlatko Stefanovski (Macedonian: ?????? ???????????) is an ethno-rock jazz fusion guitar player from the Republic of Macedonia.

Born in Prilep in 1957, he started playing guitar at the age of 13. Stefanovski was one of the founding members of Leb i sol with whom he recorded 13 albums between 1978 and 1991. He currently splits his time playing with his VS Trio, in an acoustic partnership with Miroslav Tadi? or composing for film and theatre. He is the brother of dramatist Goran Stefanovski.

Stefanovski has played a wide variety of guitars, including a Gibson SG, a Fender Stratocaster - heavily modified with Schecter and Radulovi? parts, a Telecaster, a Radulovi? super-strat and a Pensa-Suhr super-strat. The influence of ethnic and folk music of Southeastern Europe and more specifically of the music of the Republic of Macedonia are recognizable in his occasional use of odd meters (5/4, 7/8) and non-traditional scales (e.g. the Phrygian dominant scale).

He played the guitar solo in the song "Za Milion Godina" by YU Rock misija, the former Yugoslav contribution to Bob Geldof's Band Aid.


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 Tadi? one of the world's thirty most radical and individual guitarists. Most recently, Tadi? 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 K?hn, Theodosii Spasov, Kudsi Erguner, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Djivan Gasparyan, Markus Stockhausen and Maria Jo?o, 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.