Featuring piano soloist Dr. Shuree Enkhbold, this program will tell the story of one of the largest looming figures in contemporary Mongolian music, Byambasurengiin Sharav. The concert will trace the evolution in Sharav's music for piano and chamber ensemble as we follow his life from an upbringing in a nomadic herding family in Mongolia's eastern Khentii Province, to his experience studying in Sverdlovsk at the State Conservatory of the Urals, to his critical hand in shaping Mongolian music in the post-socialist era. Dr. Enkhbold will be joined by long-song (urtyn duu) vocalist Ganchimeg Badamsuren and Horse-Head Fiddle (Morin Khuur) player Urtnasan Gantulga, as well as Assistant Professor of Music Joe Lerangis to highlight the shifting folk influences in Sharav's music. This concert is sponsored by the Society for the Humanities and the Department of Music, and is part of the Endless Steppe Project, an initiative founded by Lerangis and Dr. Enkhbold to foster musical exchange between Mongolia and the United States.