Tibet House US Annual Benefit Concert: Philip Glass and Friends
$49-$220
About Tibet House US
Tibet House US is dedicated to preserving Tibet's unique culture at a time when it is confronted with extinction on its own soil. By presenting Tibetan civilization and its profound wisdom, beauty, and special art of freedom to the people of the world, we hope to inspire others to join the effort to protect and save it.
Tibet House US is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of this earth.
https://thus.org/About Philip Glass Ensemble
The Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) comprises the principal performers of the music of Philip Glass. In 1968, Glass founded the PGE in New York City as a laboratory for his music. Its purpose was to develop a performance practice to meet the unprecedented technical and artistic demands of his compositions. In pioneering this approach, the PGE became a creative wellspring for Glass, and its members remain inimitable interpreters of his work.
https://philipglassensemble.com/About Tenzin Choegyal
Tenzin Choegyal is 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.
In a career spanning 20+ years Tenzin has performed at festivals across Australia and curated numerous events and concerts including Brisbane's annual Festival of Tibet. Internationally he has performed in New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Bangladesh, Russia, and the United States, including performances at New York's Carnegie Hall. With his musical offerings, he has also opened many of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Public Talks in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. While proudly continuing the nomadic lineage which is central to his repertoire, Tenzin also embraces opportunities to take his music into more contemporary, uncharted territory, both in the studio and on stage.
Tenzin has nine independent albums, three of them with his fusion band Tibet2Timbuk2, and regularly performs with Camerata Brisbane's acclaimed Chamber Orchestra, releasing an album titled Yeshi Dolma. His collaborative albums include The Last Dalai Lama? with Philip Glass; Peradam by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith featuring Anoushka Shankar and Charlotte Gainsbourg; and the 2021 Grammy-nominated Songs from the Bardo, a moving interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, released through Smithsonian Folkways with his longtime friends and collaborators Jesse Paris Smith and Laurie Anderson. An outstanding composer/performer with a great depth of musical knowledge, intuition, and inventiveness, Tenzin continues to bring new sounds of Tibet while strongly holding the essence of ancient Tibetan wisdom. He attributes his art form to the early karmic imprints of hearing his mother, father, and elders as a toddler.
http://www.tenzinchoegyal.com/