Education
In 1986 studied with Clare Fischer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
In 1986 studied with Clare Fischer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
He started playing piano at the age of 5. He was influenced by the traditional Balkan music playing in an army orchestra during his military service in former Yugoslavia, which would influence all his subsequent work. He moved to Paris in 1988, playing with Noël Akchoté, Julien Lourau, Magic Malik, Marc Buronfosse, Henri Texier and other renowned French musicians.
In 1993, he recorded the debut album with his Bojan Z Quartet with Label Bleu, followed by.
In 1999, he was engaged in multi-ethnical project Koreni (Roots) with musicians such as Karim Ziad from Algeria, Kudsi Erguner from Turkey, and Vlatko Stefanovski from Macedonia. His solo piano album brought him wider worldwide recognition.
On he started collaborating with American jazz musicians Scott Colley and Nasheet Waits, and continued on with Ben Perowsky and Ari Hoenig, as well as Frenchman Remi Vignolo. He often uses the combination of acoustic piano with Fender Rhodes electric piano, often playing them simultaneously, and recently is claimed to be the inventor of "Xenophone", a hybrid instrument, based on the customized Fender Rhodes electric piano.
lieutenant can be heard on Xenophonia.