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Vladan Mijatovic is a Serbian-born pianist, composer and author based in Los Angeles. He played his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014, recorded with his trio V3 and the quintet Psychaudio, and scores short films. He wrote The Ultimate Jazz Piano Voicings and Chord Atlas and made the Jazz Piano Master app.
Vladan Mijatovic is a pianist, composer and author, born in Serbia and based in Los Angeles. He studied jazz piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Leonid Chizhik, graduating with honors, received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in 2010 and earned a Master's degree in 2012.
On October 7, 2014 he played his solo debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, a benefit concert where he presented his solo record Ornaments. He has recorded with his trio V3 and with the electric quintet Psychaudio, and he scores short films with synths and orchestra.
He is the author of The Ultimate Jazz Piano Voicings and Chord Atlas and the maker of the Jazz Piano Master app.
Vladan Mijatovic is a pianist, composer and author, born in Serbia and based in Los Angeles. He grew up in a family of musicians: his grandfather played trumpet, his father is a musician, and his sister Vanja is a singer.
He studied jazz piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Leonid Chizhik, graduating with honors. Since 2006 he has recorded and performed as a soloist and with a trio, and from 2009 he played Folk Meets Jazz concerts in Germany with his trio. In 2010 he received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music, and in 2012 he earned a Master's degree.
On October 7, 2014 he played his solo debut at Carnegie Hall, in Weill Recital Hall: a benefit concert where he presented Ornaments, his solo piano record. Reviewing it for All About Jazz, Budd Kopman heard “a modern Balkan Chopin merged with Oscar Peterson”.
His trio V3, with Akos Forgacs on bass and Milos Branisavljevic on drums, plays Balkan folk songs and odd metres as jazz. Their record Folk Legacy, with guest Ismail Lumanovski on clarinet, was recorded live at Peter Karl Studios in Brooklyn. In 2016 he led V3 at the Nublu Jazz Festival. With Psychaudio, an electric quintet playing music by drummer Omercan Sakar, he played a residency at Nublu in New York and recorded Connect (Kabak & Lin Records, 2017).
He composes for film with synths and orchestra together. His credits include short films by Charlotte Kennett and Dawn Church, and in 2020 he entered Spitfire Audio's scoring competition with a cue for Westworld.
In 2026 he published The Ultimate Jazz Piano Voicings and Chord Atlas, a reference book of jazz piano voicings drawn on the keyboard, and he makes Jazz Piano Master, an app for learning jazz piano.
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“a modern Balkan Chopin merged with Oscar Peterson”
“To listen to his debut solo album Ornaments is to be engulfed by the whirlwind that is Vladan.”
“He is blessed with seemingly limitless technique with which to express what feels like a bottomless well of emotions.”
“his playing opens his heart to ours.”
“Orchestral in scope, Vladan's pianism is muscular and virile, demonstrating a forceful kinetic energy that is highly listenable.”
“he leaves a bit of his soul on the keys as he performs the music of this album.”
“His touch has a hint of his Balkan background”
“always shows a mastery of mood and thought.”
Born in Serbia. Based in Los Angeles.
Studied jazz piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Leonid Chizhik, graduating with honors.
2010
Scholarship from Berklee College of Music.
2012
Master's degree.
October 7, 2014
Solo debut at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall: a benefit concert presenting Ornaments.
2016
Led the V3 trio at the Nublu Jazz Festival.
2017
Connect, with the electric quintet Psychaudio, Kabak & Lin Records.
2020 to 2024
Composer on short films, credited on IMDb.
2026
Author of The Ultimate Jazz Piano Voicings and Chord Atlas.
Records: Ornaments (solo piano), Folk Legacy (the V3 trio), Connect (Psychaudio).
