Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
 
 
Emory University & Drepung Loseling
  
 
present
  
 
 
 
A premier collaborative performance between the globally acclaimed monk artists of
  
 

The Mystical Arts of Tibet:
Sacred Music Sacred Dance

  
 
& Grammy nominated Tibetan musician,
  
 
Nawang Khechog
  
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2013 • 7:30 PM
  
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 N Decatur Rd #251, Atlanta, GA 30322

  
 
Tickets available now! at www.arts.emory.edu
Reserved tickets are available from $35-$55.
 
 
Please call the box office at 404-727-5050 to secure your tickets today.
Box Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm.
  
     
 
 
  The famed multiphonic singers of Tibet's Drepung Loseling Monastery on their Mystical Arts of Tibet world tour, will perform "Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing" as part of the cultural events surrounding Emory University’s The Visit 2013 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in a rare collaboration with renowned Tibetan musician Ngawang Khechog.  
  The performance features multiphonic chanting, wherein each of the chantmasters simultaneously intones three notes of a chord. The Drepung Loseling monks are particularly renowned for this unique singing. They also utilize traditional instruments such as 10-foot long dung-chen horns, drums, bells, cymbals and gyaling trumpets. Rich brocade costumes and masked dances, such as the Dance of the Sacred Snow Lion, add to the exotic splendor.  
 

 

In addition, two of their recordings achieved top-10 listings on the New Age charts: Tibetan Sacred Temple Music and Sacred Tibetan Chants. Their most recent recording, Compassion, pairs them with the Abbey of Gethsemani Schola in an encounter of Gregorian chant with Tibetan multiphonic singing. Their music was featured on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack of the film Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt and they performed with Philip Glass in Lincoln Center in the live presentation of his award-winning score to the Martin Scorsese film Kundun.
The Loseling monks have twice been featured artists at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, representing Tibetan culture, and in July 2003 enjoyed the rare honor of representing Tibet in the Cultural Olympiad of Greece, a pre-Olympic celebration of World Sacred Music and Dance.
 
  On past tours they have performed with Kitaro, Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Eddie Brickell, Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, the Beastie Boys, and the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, to name but a few.  
 
 

Nawang Khechog is the first Tibetan musician to be nominated for a Grammy and is the most renowned Tibetan flutist in the world. His music appears on the soundtrack for Seven Years in Tibet. For 11 years he was a monk and studied Buddhist philosophy and meditation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

With over 12 recorded albums, his music aims to utilize music as a means to inspire non-violence, compassion, spirituality and freedom for the Tibetan people.

He has collaborated with Jeff Beal, Kitaro, Peter Kater, R. Carlos Nakai, Will Clipman, Philip Glass, Paul Winter and Laurie Anderson to name but a few.

 
 
     
  Nawang is a self taught musician. His music springs out of his feeling and life experience as a world traveling, Tibetan nomad. He plays a variety of native instruments - including Tibetan long horn, South American Mayan Ocarinas, Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoo, and Tibetan and Native American flutes - as well as more familiar African drums, and other cymbals and bells. He also performs the ethereal and other-worldly sound of Tibetan, Mongolian and Tuvan overtone Chanting and the Universal Horn. The Universal Horn is his an instrument of his own invention, a combination of Tibetan long horn, Aboriginal Didgeridoo and American Trombone.  
     
 

For more information on events regarding His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit
in October, please go to: www.tibet.emory.edu

  
     
 
 
 
Drepung Loseling Monastery
  
 
1781 Dresden Dr. NE • Atlanta, GA 30316 • 404-982-0051