Yeshi Dolma- A new album from Tenzin Choegyal and Camerata

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra has just released a long-awaited album with Grammy-nominated artist Tenzin Choegyal with arrangements by Katherine Philp, Principal Cellist.

Yeshi Dolma is a passion project for all involved with more than 10 years of artistic and musical collaboration, most notably at Brisbane’s Festival of Tibet.

The album invokes landscapes in the mind that are truly movie worthy. The title, Yeshi Dolma, is the name of Tenzin’s late mother, and is a tribute to her strength and the hardship she endured after fleeing her homeland after Communist China occupied Tibet, raising nine children on her own and also fostering a hundred orphaned Tibetan children in exile.

Katherine first suggested Tenzin as a potential guest artist to appear with Camerata for a concert in Brisbane’s St John Cathedral in 2009, where she created string arrangements to connect the orchestra with him in a more structured way. Their friendship and collaborative projects have been an important influence on both of their journeys as artists.

Camerata is delighted that this album includes recording taken on their 2020 Camerata Live! tour to South West Queensland including students from Toowoomba Grammar School, Dalby South State School, Chinchilla State School, St Patrick’s School St George, and in Brisbane- Dutton Park and Toowong State Schools,  who are all singing in Heart Strings after sessions with Tenzin (who also joined Camerata as a guest artist on the tour).

Read more and listen to the album below.

Album release: Yeshi Dolma