Zoltan began to regularly visit the temple, and when devotees held their first major Hare Krishna festival in Hungary later that year, he attended that too. “I had received Srila Prabhupada’s books Perfection of Yoga and Sri Isopanisad from devotees on the street a couple of years before, so I had already developed an interest. “That was when I found out that there was an ISKCON temple in Budapest,” he says. Finally in 1990, Zoltan moved on to Liszt Ferenc University in Budapest to complete his musical education. There, he learned violin for six years, before transferring to the Bartók Béla Secondary Music School in 1986 at age fourteen, where he added the viola to his repertoire. She did one better, and enrolled him into the Erkel Ferenc Music School. “I remember my grandfather broke a branch from a tree for me, and I stood facing the record player, waving it about as if I was conducting the music,” he says.Īt eight years old, when a violin teacher came to his school, Zoltan begged his mother to let him learn. Shyamasundara Dasa’s love of classical music goes all the way back to 1976, when he was a five-year-old boy named Zoltán Bakaja, growing up in the small town of Miskolc. A Hungarian music teacher has brought together two beautiful yet unlikely companions-Western classical music and traditional Vaishnava songs.
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