Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashup #6 – Korea Meets Armenia

Common Ground features artists seemingly different in discipline, practices, or cultural identity who explore global connections, celebrating distinctions that make cultures unique.

Sita Chay, Grammy Award Violinist, is the only Korean Artist to have won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album. She is the founder and music director of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual, SaaWee, which was hailed by international critics as a “delicate powerhouse”.

Ara Dinkjian is an Armenian born in America. Ara learned several Western and Eastern instruments (piano, guitar, dumbeg, clarinet) and in 1980 graduated from the Hartt College of Music, earning the country’s first and only special degree in the instrument for which he has become most well-known, the oud.

This concert is accompanied by percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger, lived in Colombia for four years working with the group Macumbia.