p, ep, org, *1960
Musician / Composer / Producer of Pop and Rock
Vanja Lisak was a Croatian piano player, composer and music producer, born 1941 in Zagreb. Since the beginning of the 1960s, he was an active member of the Croatian popular and jazz music scene. He graduated in 1968 at the Zagreb Music Academy, worked afterwards on Radio Zagreb, also for the Radio Zagreb popular Orchestra on the piano (Zabavni orkestar radio Zagreba). He was widely known for his work on and for national popular music festivals especially during the 1970s. He was a member of the Croatian Composer Association since 1971. During his life he arranged numerous broadcast music and released 12 music albums. Also is he the author of a broad range of popular, jazz and traditional music. Ivan Lisak died in July 2015 in Zagreb.