He earned his Bachelor’s degree in violin performance in 1982 under Prof. Paul Makanowitzky. From 1982 to 1986, he served as the assistant to the renowned violinist Ruggiero Ricci, under whom he also completed his Master’s degree in 1984.
Boro is the recipient of several first prizes at national and federal competitions for young musicians in Croatia. During his studies, he received the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin Award (1983) and the Earl V. Moore Award (1984).
After graduating in 1984, he performed with acclaimed ensembles such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Detroit Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Since 1984, he has been a regular member of the Santa Fe Opera Summer Festival Orchestra, where he served as concertmaster from 1994 to 2017.
In 1986, he joined The Phoenix Symphony, where he held the position of concertmaster from 1991 to 2006. Between 1998 and 2004, he was Professor of Violin at Arizona State University.
In March 2006, Boro became concertmaster and artistic director of the Zagreb Soloists, and from 2007 to 2012, he also taught at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb. After leaving Zagreb in 2012, he joined the String Department at Iowa State University as Professor of Violin and Viola and became a member of the Amara Piano Quartet, the university’s ensemble-in-residence, regularly performing across North America.
His extensive solo and chamber music performances have taken him throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe. As a concertmaster, he has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Kurt Masur, Hermann Michael, Theo Alcantara, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Alan Gilbert, Edo de Waart, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Elmar Oliveira, Midori Goto, Hilary Hahn, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Guillermo Figueroa, Van Cliburn, Ivo Pogorelić, Emanuel Ax, Martina Filjak, Alicia de Larrocha, Pepe Romero, Zoran Dukić, Ana Vidović, Petrit Çeku, Radovan Vlatković, Yo-Yo Ma, Giovanni Sollima, Julius Berger, Marc Coppey, Monika Leskovar, Mineo Hayashi, and Božo Paradžik.
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