Zsolt Szulyovszky
(tanpura, sitār, drone)
e-mail: hampibazar@gmail.com

Born in 1955, in Budapest.
At the age of 8 he begins to learn to sing and to play violin. In 1975 he meets Lāszlō Hortobāgyi, who introduces him to Indian classical music. His commitment towards this kind of music has never changed since then. Making progress on the „tangible” side of life, after earning a degree in history and library science, he runs between 1990 and 2007 a second-hand book store, Bibliotēka”, in Budapest, first as a manager than as the managing owner. As to the „other” side of real life, he – even being an antiquarian bookseller – never stops living under spell of Indian music.

In early 2005 he travels to South-India, and the turning of the past into presence has come true. Then comes the final illumination: he purchases a sitar and a tabla in Mysore, then after returning home he applies to Lāszlō Hortobāgyi to introduce him to the mysterious art of sitar, that being a real turning point in his life. In June 2007, Zsolt visits in Amsterdam the sitariya Srimati Darshan Kumari (pupil of Budhaditya Mukherji), who has come from India in the 70ies, and since then Zsolt follows the whirling of his life as her pupil.

Suyoji plays surbahār

Suyoji plays sitār