DRAGAN MLADJENOVIC studied conducting at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Dušan Skovran and classical philology at the Faculty of Philosophy, also in Belgrade. When in the summer of 1968 he brought early music scores from Prague and instruments from Vienna, it was the birthdate of early music in the Balkans. He attended advanced courses in the performance of early music on historic instruments, musicology or early music, conducting and rehearsal of small and large ensembles in Switzerland (1970), FR Germany (1969, 1971, 1972, 1973), Austria (1974, 1975, 1980) and in Great Britain (1976). With singers society RUKOVET, which he founded in the honour of “Two Centuries of Vuk” in 1987, he performed in Italy (1987), Holland (1988), Hungary (1990), Cyprus (1992) and released several audio tapes with the blessings of Serbian Patriarch Paul: “Service to St. Sava”, “Christ Is Arisen”, “Serbian Christmas”, “Vidovdan” (“St. Vitus Day”), “Reunion of Holy Serbs”, “Serbian Chanting in Sarajevo”, CDR “Holy Liturgy”, “Holy Serbia”, “Chilandar Words”, as well as interactive CD's “2000th Birthday of Our Lord” and “Serbian Chants”. Dragan Mla?enovia has been awarded Golden Badge of the Ministry of Culture (1990), Plaque “Mokranjac Days” (1990), the Karadjordjevic Charter (1996) and Plaque “White Angel” (1999). For years he been persistently stating that traffic jams, especially during the rush hours, are the reason for him being late for rehearsals so often. Since 1966 he has been nicknamed “Shakespeare”, because at a school performance he was so suggestive and convincing in playing the role of Hamlet, that it made Alex the Penguin exclaim “Here's Shakespeare!”.