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Music Unearthed
Festival Concert 4
Unearthed: Uprooted
August 14, 2026
Friday
7:30 pm – Festival Concert
6:30 pm – Pre-Concert Lecture
Lincoln Theater
Tickets available in advance or at the door.
Single Tickets: $45 (general) • $30 for first-time attendees • Free for students
Composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian explores her family’s Anatolian-Armenian and Lebanese roots and the significance of old music in a new world. Alongside her own compositions, French Baroque music is interwoven with original arrangements of Armenian folk music and the recorded voices of Karen’s mother and grandmother in this meditation on inheritance and the passage of time.
PROGRAM
Work to be announced
Karen Ouzounian, cello; Issam Rafea, oud
Bedřich Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life”
Sean Lee, violin; Gabriela Díaz, violin; Maiya Papach, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello
Marin Marais Les Voix Humaines
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Gusan Ashot Sari Sirun Yar
Sean Lee, violin; Gabriela Díaz, violin; Maiya Papach, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Shawn Conley, bass; Issam Rafea, oud; Lembit Beecher, electronics
Anatolian Traditional Eghin Havasi
Karen Ouzounian Songs of the Sap (No. 3 commissioned by SBC)
Sean Lee, violin; Gabriela Díaz, violin; Maiya Papach, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Shawn Conley, bass; Issam Rafea, oud; Lembit Beecher, electronics
Ashot Satyan Mardigi Yerke
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Lembit Beecher Green Line
Lembit Beecher Music for the Passing of Days No. 8
Karen Ouzounian, cello; Lembit Beecher, electronics
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