Prairie Cello Festival
A co-presentation of the Prairie Cello Institute and the Regina Musical Club
3 concerts in 4 days
Tuesday August 20th 7:30pm - Darke Hall
Karen Ouzounian, cello in collaboration with composer Lembit Beecher
Photo: Ebru Yildiz
Program:
One-hour - through performed
Voices of Family
This is a very personal program, centered on the human voice and created in collaboration with my husband, composer Lembit Beecher. The voices of my mother and grandmother appear along with music of my family’s past home of Anatolia, the Ottoman Armenian villages where my family were from, music and stories drawn from my family’s post-Genocide home in Lebanon, and the beloved music of Charles Aznavour. Lembit’s compositions, original music reflecting upon the experience of childhood, migration and the passage of time, are woven throughout, and music by friends Nathalie Joachim, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Layale Chaker expand upon the themes of generational transmission, community, rootedness and uprootedness, with music that is full of passion, rage and celebration, in tribute to our ancestors. Opening and closing the program is the gorgeous baroque piece “Les Voix Humaines” (the human voices) by Marin Marais, music from hundreds of years ago providing a window into the present.
Tickets for this event are purchased through the Darke Hall box office
August 22nd 7:00pm - Shubox Theatre, Riddell Centre, University of Regina
CelloDrama!
Prairie Cello Institute Faculty Cellists in Performance
Christine Bootland
Simon Fryer
Joel MacDonald
Scott McKnight
Karen Ouzounian
Works for solo and multiple cellos
August 23rd 6:00pm - Shubox Theatre, Riddell Centre, University of Regina
Prairie Cello Institute Closing Concert
Our students demonstrate the ensemble work they have accomplished over the course of the week with works for cello ensembles small and large.
Admission by donation
