This worldwide premiere of Techung and his Music Ensemble will present a repertoire of classical music from Tibet known as Nangma and Toeshey. These classical musical traditions became widely popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Central Tibet with the formation of Nangma associations. With the support of the Tibetan ruling elite, Nangma groups further expanded and the music itself developed and in due course came to be associated with official banquets and picnics.

These genres of classical music reached their pinnacle in the 1930s with the greatest musician called Acho Namgyal, a blind maestro from south central Tibet. Namgyal composed and performed some of the best-known songs which are still performed to this day.

Nonetheless as an older generation of Tibetans is passing away, time is running out on nearly all aspects of Tibetan culture. This is one of the reasons why during the last seven years Techung has been undertaking his “Tibetan Music Preservation” project to professionally record and perform the songs that he learned from his elders from Tibet in India.

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