[3] They met while studying at the Academy of Music, Belgrade, and he anglicized their family name to Angelich after they emigrated to the United States during the 1960s.

[3][4] He relocated to Paris when he was thirteen in order to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, where his teachers included Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff,[3] and Marie-Françoise Bucquet.

[3][6] He subsequently made his New York recital debut at the Alice Tully Hall in 1995,[3] playing compositions by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel.

[4] His performance received a positive review from Anthony Tommasini, who observed how Angelich "boasts a prodigious technique, but wields it with a poise uncommon in someone so young".

[8][9] During his 2009–10 tour, Angelich gave recitals in Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Milan Conservatory, The Hague, and Theatre du Chatelet (Paris).