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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
Duo
Shawn Conley, bass; 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
Lembit Beecher Kitchen Table Conversations, No. 1
Gusan Ashot Sari Sirun Yar (arr. Beecher and Ouzounian)
Karen Ouzounian Songs of the Sap, No. 1: Tamzara
Lembit Beecher Music for the Passing of Days, No. 8
Karen Ouzounian Songs of the Sap, No. 3: Aksak Semai (2026) (world premiere, commissioned by SBC)
Anatolian Traditional Eghin Havasi (transcribed Beecher and Ouzounian
Ashot Satyan Mardigi Yerke (arr. Ouzounian)
Lembit Beecher Kitchen Table Conversations, No. 2
Layale Chaker Before Bloom (arr. Beecher and Ouzounian)
Lembit Beecher Kitchen Table Conversations, No. 3
Lembit Beecher Green Line
Karen Ouzounian Songs of the Sap, No. 2: Curcuna
Marin Marais Les Voix Humaines (arr. Beecher)
Maiya Papach, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Shawn Conley, bass; Issam Rafea, oud; Lembit Beecher, electronics
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