Urna Chahar-Tugchi, Ser Review

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URNA Chahar-Tugchi known as Urna, is a Mongolian singer and player of the yangqin. Urna was born into a family of herders in the grasslands of the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, a society where song was an omnipresent part of everyday life. Her first musical training was learning to play the yangqin, which is the Chinese dulcimer under the tutelage of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where a professor who was visiting Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia imparted his wisdom Urna, who at the time was only eighteen.  She moved to study at the Shanghai Conservatory, a challenging step since she had no knowledge of the Chinese language.  She now performs around the world, and is based in Bavaria, Germany and in Cairo, Egypt. In 2003, she was awarded the RUTH prize in Germany for Best International Artist.  Her latest album titled Ser, which means Awakening, was recorded with the world-renowned Polish band, Kroke.