Igor Milić

Igor Milić (born October 5, 1972 in Osijek) Croatian musician, instrumentalist, singer, record producer, arranger, composer and music teacher. Biography Musical beginnings Igor Milić was born on October 5, 1972, in Osijek, Croatia. His first contact with music was when, as a five-year-old boy, he started to play the guitar and tamburitza (a Croatian stringed folk instrument, similar to the guitar) for his family. When he was nine years old, he started to participate in Josip Kolaric’s tamburitza orchestra in which he played different kinds of tamburitza: brač, čelo, bugarija and berda. He continued with this orchestra for 5 years and performed in number of tamburitza reviews and festivals, in which the orchestra received many prestigious awards. While playing in Josip Kolaric’s orchestra, beginning in 1982, he also played bugarija in the folklore society “Biseri Slavonije”, led by Franjo Slavko Batorek. He played with this orchestra until 1987 when he moved to the folklore society “Srđan Petrov”, where he stayed until 1991, also playing bugarija, berda and brač in the national orchestra led by Miroslav Tanacković and in the tamburitza band led by Zvonko Murinji. During the period 1