Ivan Tasovac


Ivan Tasovac is a Serbian pianist and manager. He served as the director of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001 to 2013. He also served as the Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia from 2013 to 2016.

Early life and education

Ivan Tasovac was born on 21 June 1966 to actor Predrag Tasovac and Marija, who was piano professor in a proficient music school "Stevan Mokranjac". He graduated piano on "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" Moscow conservatory in the class of professor Sergei Dorensky.

Career

From 23 March 2001 to 22 November 2013, he served as the general manager of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also a member of the jury in the Serbian version of the international Got Talent show.
He served as a Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia from 2013 to 2016.
After stepping down from a Government office, he went back to be a Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra general manager.
Tasovac received the ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. This was tantamount to election, and with the list having secured a landslide victory he is slated to be awarded a seat in the new assembly.

Personal life

On 30 December 2018, Tasovac got seriously injured while playing recreational basketball, breaking spine vertebra. He was immediately transferred to the Emergency Center. In an interview he gave in March 2019, Tasovac said that he went out of hospital in February 2019 and that while in hospital, doctors have also detected and removed a spinal cord tumor that was developing unnoticed in his body for a decade.