On stage, these descendents of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music on traditional instruments, drawing subtly on 20th-century composers and decades spent honing their overtone singing, “a beauty so strange that it might have emanated from the banks of Martian canals” (Los Angeles Times). Thanks in no small part to their superior musicianship and their 17-year partnership, Huun Huur Tu has transformed ancient songs into complex acoustic compositions, having almost single-handedly introduced the outside world to the boundless wealth of Tuvan traditions.

Note: There will be no intermission during this performance.