Tenzin Choegyal: One of The World’s Finest Musicians in the Tibetan Tradition Performs Free Concert Saturday

SARATOGA SPRINGS —Tibetan artist, composer, activist, musical director, and cultural ambassador Tenzin Choegyal performs with Attacca Quartet in a free concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. 

The event takes place at the Zankel Music Center, on the campus of Skidmore College.  

Choegyal plays lingbu (bamboo flute) and dranyen (3-stringed Tibetan lute) and is best known for his extraordinary vocal ability and performance of droklu, the nomadic music of his parents. 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. 

Recent events include the Tibet House Annual Benefit Concert – billed as Philip Glass and Friends, and GRAMMY nominated album “Songs from the Bardo” with Laurie Anderson, and Jesse Paris Smith – daughter of Patti Smith.  

As a son of Tibetan nomads, Choegyal holds 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.