Nasanjargal Ganbold + Johanni Curtet

Nasaa was born in Khovd province, western Mongolia. He comes from a family of musicians and traditional music has always played an important role in his life. He studied at the Ulaanbaatar Conservatory from 1994 to 2002 and graduated as a musician and music teacher. Nasaa is a talented multi-instrumentalist, and excels in various khöömii/throat singing techniques.

Johanni is a composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, throat-singing teacher and producer. First trained by Trân Quang Hai, his traditional apprenticeship comes from D. Tserendavaa in the steppes of the Altai, and B. Odsüren at the University of Arts and Culture in Ulaanbaatar. He teaches khöömii for the Philharmonie de Paris, and opened the first curriculum in the West in 2020 with the International Institute of World Music in Aubagne. Apart his main trio Meïkhâneh, he has notably played with Tserendavaa, Tsogtgerel, on Orbi by Pierrick Lefranc, the Electric Opera Èves futures by Alain Basso, Ensemble 9 by Pierre Redon, and also Katajjaq and Khöömii, Chorus Nunavik / Mongolia by Katia Makdissi-Warren for the First Peoples Festival in Montreal.

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This is an all ages event