Artist Spotlight: Chirgilchin
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IGOR KOSHKENDEY has twice won the International Tuvan Throat Singing Competition, singing and winning in all of the six styles of throat singing.
His singing in the unique Oidupaa style is surpassed only by its originator, Vladimir Oidupaa.
MONGOUN-OOL ONDAR won the International Tuvan Throat Singing Competition at the age of 16. He is recognized as a master of all six styles of throat singing, and has developed a new style of his own. His singing is, without a doubt, guaranteed to blow your mind.
ALDAR TAMDYN won Best Instrumentalist at the 2000 International Folk Music Festival in Tuva, playing the strings of the igil and the byzanchy. He is the director of the National Tuvan Orchestra of Traditional Instruments. He builds the instruments played by CHIRGILCHIN and other Siberian musical groups.
AIDYSMAA KOSHKENDEY is a female vocalist who specializes in the Long song tradition and plays khomus (Tuvan mouth harp), tenchik (bells) and percussion.
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All photos are courtesy of artist.
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