‘Snow Flower’ full album is out now. ❄️🌿 🌸 for you all!!
This album began as an exploration of ancient & contemporary sounds, and shared creativity with @mattcorby , @rohinjones , and @a.j.henriksson - four friends making music with open hearts and open minds.
I hope these songs bring you peace, reflection, and a sense of fearlessness. Listen, breathe, and let go.
Listen now Link in the bio or https://tenzin.lnk.to/SnowFlowerA
Cover artwork by @tsherinsherpa #snowflower #tibet #albumrelease @warnermusicaustralia@rvrlabel
✨ NEW ALBUM “BE THE SKY” OUT NOW ✨ by Philip Glass & Tenzin Choegyal
A heartfelt collaboration born from two decades of musical friendship uniting Tenzin’s Tibetan nomadic lineage with Philip Glass’s iconic minimalist sound. A sonic offering of hope, resilience, spirituality, and connection.
Featuring: Alex Ring Gray • Scorchio Quartet • Saori Tsukada • Children of Tibetan Children’s Village
“Music takes me to places I can’t physically go, like Tibet. But Tibet resides within me. I hope this album takes you to your heart places.” @tibet_effect
“Be the Sky is my humble offering in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, and a celebration of my dear friend Philip Glass.” - Tenzin Choegyal
🎧 BE THE SKY out now on all listening platforms. Link in the Bio
Join us to celebrate tonight for the World Premiere Live Concert of BE THE SKY with Attacca Quartet, Alex Ring Gray, Tsering Dorjee Bawa, Zhenelle LaBel, and the awesome specially curated Skidmore guest artists! 🎶
Fri, November 14 • 7:30 PM @zankelmusiccenter
Mixing: Alex Ring Gray, Mastering: Taylor Deupree (12k Mastering), Production: Tenzin Choegyal & Alex Ring Gray, Executive Producer: Yodon Thonden, Artwork: Tenzing Rigol, Design: Jamyang Tenzin
Supported by The Tibet Fund, The Sea Stone Foundation, The Green Dragons Fund, Orange Mountain Records, and many generous friends & family!!!
After 6 years, I had the honor of returning to Dharamshala for the inaugural Tibetan Artist Festival @tibetanartistsfest with Metok my Dranyen. During this short visit, I feel truly blessed to have received His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s blessing in person. How fortunate we are to walk this earth in his presence. Thank you, His Holiness, for continuously inspiring me to be a better version of myself each day.
A heartfelt thank you to Bhuchung @badsonam the entire organizing team, and the Tibet Fund @thetibetfund for making this festival a reality, and for ensuring it was a meaningful and inclusive experience for both the artists and the audience. It was deeply encouraging to see the growing appreciation for Tibetan art in exile. There was a time when my own work felt out of the box, and many didn’t know what to make of it. But now, the next generation of Tibetan artists in exile has a much more welcoming space, with open ears, eyes, and hearts within our community. Thank you, everyone, with much gratitude. 🙏
I shall post photos from the festival later.
Photos: these special photos are by @choejor and thank you Tenzin Takla la
Receiving blessings from His Holiness while presenting the Grammy Medal & certificate. By Choenjor
Presenting these to His Holiness and Amala felt like offering them to my own parents, who left this world too early. A whole book of emotions, I could built a world out of this single moment.
Really loving these occasional musical catch ups with my dear friends Vanessa & Erik of Clocked Out. Here is a 30sec Fragments from our long-form, slow-listening improvisations — where time stretches, silence speaks, and melodies slowly reveal themselves.
This little passage emerged somewhere deep inside a 45-minute unfolding… searching for the feeling of “Stranger in Your Own Land.” 🎶
Clocked Out is an acclaimed Australian experimental music duo formed in 1999 by pianist Erik Griswold and percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson @clockedout.music@nessietomlinson
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers.
Tenzin Choegyal will maybe do his CRANE SONG with Oslo Strings in Oslo, Norway on 2nd June @osloff
"Drops of Rain wash away the love songs written in the Sand. Love though unwritten remains long after, in the Heart."
Shen Flindell - Tabla
Marchello Milani - Guitar
Taro Terahara - Bansuri
Tenzin Choegyal - Vocals & Metok (Dranyen)
From the album Music is Life with Tibet2Timbuk2
Filmed on top of a lookout in LEH Ladakh by Jamie Williams, Kelkhang Rinpoche & Mark Gould. Edited by Jono Field. @kelkhang@osloff@10dor
✨ Here is a little Thank You video postcard to Gleny Rae & everyone at Top Half Folk Festival ✨💛 this little video postcard created from a combination of two beautiful moments during the festival — sunrise flute melodies on the hill overlooking the campsite, accompanied by birdsong, gentle wind and golden morning light 🌞💗 And a playful little moment of making music with rocks on the riverbed… simple, joyful connection with sound, rhythm and the landscape ✨
Feeling full of gratitude after a beautiful weekend for Top half Festival at Ross River Resort in Mparntwe - Alice Springs💛
So special to reconnect with many of my dear folk festival friends, share music, dancing, late-night jams and beautiful conversations surrounded by the stunning landscape ❤️
A huge highlight was being part of the Festival Orchestra piece created by Liam & Gleny Rea, and watching the young string players shine 🎻✨
Big thanks to Robert, Gleny Rea, Liam and Chris for bringing so much magic and joy into my concert 🎶
And massive thanks to the whole festival crew, volunteers, artists and everyone who made it such a welcoming and joy-filled gathering ✨ see you all soon again!!!
Filmed by Cat & Rob
@alicespringsfolk@cat_and_clint@glenyraevirus@topologyrob
Snow Flower just won Best World Music at the 2026 Queensland Music Awards @qldmusicawards ❄️🌸 presented by @abcbrisbane
ཁ་བའི་མེ་ཏོག་། Khawey Metok — “Snow Flower”
I’m deeply grateful for all the love and listenings this album has received. Created in collaboration with my dear friends @mattcorby , @rohinjones , and @a.j.henriksson , with cover art by @tsherinsherpa & @mikcreativestudio — this project is truly made of many hearts.
Thank you to everyone at Rainbow Valley Records @rvrlabel and the Warner Music Australasia team @warnermusicaustralia for your support and belief in this work.
I wasn’t able to be there in person for the awards, but I want to send heartfelt congratulations to all the fellow nominees. It’s an honour to be alongside such inspiring artists in our community.
To my Tibetan diaspora arts family, those within Tibet, and all my friends and loved ones around the world — thank you for holding my artistic journey with such love and warmth. If you haven’t encountered Snow Flower yet, listen via the link in bio.
With my spiritual root teacher, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, now in his 90s, and to all our elders who continue to show us that kindness and compassion are always possible — thank you 🙏
#SnowFlower #QueenslandMusicAwards #AustralianMusic #WorldMusic #TibetanMusic MappingTibet Compassion
Over the years, I’ve loved collaborating with some of the most amazing Tibetan artists from the Tibetan art world for my music album covers. For Whispering Sky, I had the privilege of working with a talented Tibetan artist based in Tibet - bringing an even deeper layer of meaning and connection to the project. ✨
This album is available on all digital platforms and Bandcamp too!!!
MESSAGE
I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.
Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world’s great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.
An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.
I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.
DALAI LAMA
31 March 2026
LINGBHU & TWO DOUBLE BASS - “afterlife of sound”
Such a beautiful experience being part of @4000Records ’ Slow Listening concert with Matt Hsu and East of West.
We each shared a 30-minute set, and in the final 13 minutes of mine, I invited Goran Gajić from East of West to join Robert Davidson and me on a second double bass. It felt like being surrounded by two giant, resonant insects.
My closing piece was a super beautiful improvised: voice, poetry, and flute woven with two incredible double basses. Sharing here 3 minutes of the flute sections from that 13 minutes moment of pure magic of slow listening.
Thank you to everyone who made the afternoon so special, John of 4000 Records, Shunya, Slow Music Club, Junk Bar.
Filmed on phone by Malindi Morris @4000records_@eastofwestmusic@thejunkbar@topologyrob@obscureorchestra@shunyamusic
