Photo by Alex Elena
Tenzin Choegyal and Simone Giuliani
Online Concert
With
Piero Perelli - Drums and Percussion
Riccardo Onori - Guitar
Matteo Giannetti - Bass
Livestreamed from Pure Land Farms Tuscany
Sunday June 7th, 2026
6pm (Time Zone CET/ Florence, Italy)
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This concert is offered in support of TCV Tibetan Children’s Village, an integrated charitable organization headquartered in Dharamsala, India that provides care and education for orphans, destitute youth, and refugee children from Tibet.
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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 USA, including performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has also opened many of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Public Talks in Australia, New Zealand and Japan with his musical offerings.
While proudly continuing the unbroken 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. His collaborative albums include The Last Dalai Lama?with Philip Glass, Peradam album by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith featuring Anoushka Shankar & Charlotte Gainsbourh and the 2021 Grammy-nominated Songs from the Bardo released through Smithsonian Folkways with his longtime friend and collaborator Jesse Paris Smith and Laurie Anderson - a moving interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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 and father as a toddler.
Tenzin Choegyal is currently working on a few new music projects and a new album “Dear Ama la” with one of Australia’s finest Camerata Chamber Orchestra.
SIMONE GIULIANI
Simone Giuliani is the Artistic Director of Yangchenma Arts & Music. He’s a music director, music producer, film composer and educator born in Florence, Italy and based in New York and Los Angeles.
Simone has worked for the past two decades with an array of international artists:
Beyoncé, Andrea Bocelli, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, David Foster, DJ Logic, Wu-Tang Clan, Cibo Matto, Groove Collective, Bisan Toron, Jovanotti, Monday Michiru, Drukmo Gyal, Yuka Honda, Miho Hatori & New Optimism, Nels Cline (Wilco), Louie Vega (Masters At Work), Jamie Catto (Faithless, 1 Giant Leap), Suzie Katayama (Prince, Madonna), Lévon Minassian (Peter Gabriel) and many more.
He wrote the soundtrack of 'Deep Into Shambhala' the film by Yan Dazhong (CCTV/CGTN China) that won Best Music Award at the 8th China Academy Awards for Documentary Film (CAADF) in Beijing.
As a Music Director and producer he has been managing and supervising several music projects, most recently the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. He served as the Music Director and as a conductor of the symphonic concert “Music for Mercy” created by UNESCO for Pope Francis' Year of the Jubilee.
Simone wrote and produced original music for a number of TV films and series: The Handmaid’s Tale (HULU), What We Do in the Shadows (HULU), Spike Lee's Humanity Project, Blindspot (NBC), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS), True Blood (HBO), CBS News Theme (VH1) and more.
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His film scoring credits include 'Weed The People' (NETFLIX), nominated for the Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2018, directed by Abby Epstein and produced by Ricki Lake (The Business of Being Born), 'Unseen' by Laura Paglin, (Amazon Video Must-Watch Documentaries 2018), 'Reject' directed by Ruth Thomas and produced by Kurt Engfehr (Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 911 by Michael Moore), and 'A Raisin in the Sun', featuring P. Diddy and John Stamos, nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Simone worked with Grammy Award-winner producer Jason Olaine on the release of rare live recordings of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan and more jazz legends for Monterey Jazz Festival Records (Concord Music Group).
He created the music education program for the European initiative 'Campus' in Tuscany, Italy, gathering more than 3,000 kids from allover the country every year. He's the Director of Programs of MOMENT NYC, a music education non-profit presenting the history of music in New York City through performances in public schools.
He has served as Director of Digital for Festival Network, the company founded by George Wein in 1954 who pioneered the concept of music festival, creating the iconic Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival . Simone personally curated the 2008 edition of the Festival in the Desert in Mali, West Africa.
E-mail: simone@yangchenma.org