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Milan Conić (SRB) is a jazz pianist and composer based in Linz, Austria, since 2017. He studied classical and popular piano in Luhansk (Ukraine) and at the Vienna Conservatory, later completing jazz piano and composition at the Anton Bruckner Private University with Dejan Pečenko, Martin Stepanik, and Christoph Cech. In 2025 he released his debut EP M3rd4 with Chris Kronreif, Fabian Rucker, Peter Herbert, and Max Plattner, featuring works inspired by Messiaen’s Mode 3. The same year he releases an EP with the band Tishina (with Viviane Töbich), composed the soundtrack for El Cultivo de la Mente, and co-founded the electronic duo The Unsettled with J SAN. Since 2023 he has led the cultural association Linz in2 Jazz and taught piano at the Music School of Linz.