Tenzin Choegyal is a Tibetan artist, composer, activist,
musical director, and cultural ambassador, and one of the world’s finest
musicians in the Tibetan tradition. As a son of Tibetan nomads, he feels a
particular connection to the music of the high Himalayan plateau. Forced
into exile in India as his family fled the repression in Tibet, he now resides
in Australia.
As a child, Tenzin would listen to his mother singing in the
nomadic lineage, often noting her as an early influence of his passion for
singing. He plays lingbu (bamboo flute) and dranyen (3-stringed
Tibetan lute) though he is best known for his extraordinary vocal ability and
performance of droklu, the nomadic music of his parents.
Tenzin Choegyal will perform his music with two-time Grammy
Award winners the Attacca Quartet, alongside selections from their repertoire
to complement Choegyal’s vocal stylings.
This concert is free and open to the public, part of a
series of events connected to the faculty-curated exhibition, Forms
of Awakening: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection of Himalayan Art,
on view at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery through December 10.