PORT
TOWNSEND
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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Port Townsend · (360) 385-0770
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Townsend thanks to your support.
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Salish
Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be
an affiliate organization of Early
Music America, which
develops, strengthens, and celebrates
early music and historically informed
performance in North America.
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With special thanks
✣ to
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
2025
Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Port Townsend ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in Port Townsend and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with St. Paul's Episcopal Church ~
~
Please check back soonfor
specific Port Townsend dates ~
~
2025 Tentative Schedule
~
January
14-26: — THE
CANZONA
· Vicki
Boeckman, renaissance
recorders
· Tina Chancey,
tenor viol
· Jeffrey
Cohan, renaissance
transverse flutes
· Anna Marsh,
dulcian (renaissance bassoon)
An entirely new program exploring
the birth and development of the
transitional Canzona, as it
was inspired by early 16th-century
chansons and evolved into the early
17th-century baroque sonata and
suite. Featuring special guest
renaissance specialist and
innovative improviser Tina Chancey
from Hesperus in Washington, DC.
February 17 - March 2: — THE CHACONNE
· Susie Napper,
viola da gamba & treble viol
· Mélisande
Corriveau, viola da gamba
& pardessus de viol
· Elisabeth
Wright, harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque and
renaissance flutes Les
Voix humaines, the
widely celebrated prize-winning duo
of viols from Montreal joins us for
a program centering on the chaconne
of the late 17th century but
extending from the early 17th
century through Johann Sebastian
Bach.
March 5-13: — TRIO
SONATAS
· Bernward
Lohr, harpsichord
· Anne Röhrig,
violin
· Susie Napper,
viola da gamba
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque flute
Trio sonata mastierpieces by Georg
Philipp Telemann, Louis-Gabriel
Guillemain and Jean Baptiste Quentin
le jeune with our Musica
Alta Ripa friends from
Hannover.
March
27-30: —
HARPSICHORD
MYSTERY
· Elena
Zhukova,
harpsichord
The Ukrainian harpsichordist
deciphers mysterious and elusive
rarities as well as standards for
solo harpsichord by Byrd,
Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti
alongside Ukrainian gems including
a harpsichord sonata by Dmitry
Bortnyansky. [only in certain
locations]
March
27-April 17: — EUROPEAN
TOUR 1690-1790
· Elena
Zhukova, harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque flute
An excursion through a century of
transformation and diversity by
decade and culture within the
baroque and classical periods,
through the perspective of
composers for harpsichord and
flute from France, Italy,
Scotland, Germany and Ukraine.
April 28-May 8: — The
MUSIQUE DE LA CHAMBRE of LOUIS
XIV
· Caroline
Nicolas, viola da gamba
· William
Simms, theorbo &
baroque guitar
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque and
renaissance flutes
The SUn King's court musical
establishment is to be represented
by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin
Marais, Jacques Hotteterre, etc.,
including music designated for the
king's bedtime, evening concerts
and banquets, with our special
guests from New York and
Baltimore.
May 13-26: — CONCERTI
from the COURT of FREDERICK THE
GREAT
· David
Schrader, harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque flute
· Elizabeth
Phelps, baroque violin
· Courtney
Kuroda, baroque violin
· Lindsey
Strand-Polyak, baroque
viola
A completely new assortment of
concerti for harpsichord and flute
from the illustrious members of
the musical establishment of
flutist Frederick the Great, King
of Prussia, including Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach, Johann Joachim
Quantz, and Frederick himself.
June 3-12: — BEETHOVEN'S
FLUTE, VIOLA & GUITAR
· Elizabeth
Blumenstock, viola
· Oleg
TImofeyev, 7-string
guitar (Moscow, 1820)
· Jeffrey
Cohan, 8-keyed flute
(London, 1820)
Repertoire abounds for this
popular ensemble of guitar, viola
and flute during Beethoven's time.
With outstanding violinist and
violist Elizabeth Blumenstock.
July 7-9: — THE
18TH-CENTURY HARPSICHORD IN
SPAIN
· Irene
Roldàn,
harpsichord
Step into the heart of
18th-century Iberia, where the
vibrant court of Madrid stood as a
focal point for the flourishing of
the rich keyboard music of
Domenico Scarlatti, Sebastian de
Albero, Jose de Nebra, and the
Portuguese Carlos Seixas.
[only in certain locations]
July 10-21: — JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
· Irene
Roldàn, harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque flute
Spanish harpsichordist Irene
Roldàn from Basel and Jeffrey
interpret Bach's phenomenal music
for flute and harpsichord.
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Earlier concerts this past 2024 season
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✣
✣Sunday,
JANUARY 21, 2024 at 2 PM at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church ✣
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✣
THREE
CENTURIES:
GUITAR,
THEORBO & FLUTE
Michael
Freimuth
~
renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th
Century
Diego
Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni
Bassano
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
17th
Century
Giovanni
Paulo Cima
Girolamo
Frescobaldi
Giovanni
Battista Fontana
Giovanni
Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
18th
Century
Arcangelo
Corelli
• André Chéron
Robert
de Visée
Join
us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and an unusual and
expansive journey through the music for
guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, including elaborate
jazzed-up versions of well known songs of
the time, published by the incredible wind
instrument virtuosi of the late 16th
century, along with canzonas, sonatas and
suites from Spain, Italy, England and
France. The instruments include the
renaissance guitar, which is considerably
smaller and more mellow-toned than its
modern descendant, theorbo (an extremely
long-necked lute), the one-piece
cylindrical renaissance flute along with
the bass renaissance flute, and the
one-keyed baroque flute.
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✣
✣Sunday,
February 18, 2024 at 2:00 pm in Port
Townsend ✣
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✣
SIMPHONIE
NOUVELLE:
LOUIS
XIV & J.S. BACH
Stephen
Stubbs
~ baroque
guitar ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
guitarists
Diego
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) Robert
De Visée (c.1655-1733) viola
da gambists
Monsieur
de Sainte Colombe (c.1640-c.1700) Marin
Marais (1656-1728) Jacques
Morel (c.1680-c.1740) flutist
Michel
de la Barre (c.1675-1745) composers
Élisabeth
Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733) Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Louis
XIV gathered the finest musicians of France
at his court in Versailles and this program
features many of the late 17th and early
18th-century guitarists, viola da gambists,
flutists and other composers associated with
his illustrious musical establishment,
alongside the Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 of
Johann Sebastian Bach.
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✣
✣Saturday,
March 2, 2024 at 2:00
pm in Port
Townsend✣
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✣
GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Quadri
a violino, flauto traversiere, viola
da gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento (1730):
Concerto
II in D Major
Sonata
II in G Minor
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites (1738):
Premier
Quatuor in D Major 4e.
Quatuor in B Minor
Having been invited by several of
the most prominent French
musicians to visit Paris, Telemann
composed and published the first
set of his remarkable "Paris
Quartets" in 1730, and left
Hamburg for Paris seven years
later, where all 12 of the
quartets were performed, almost
surely with Teleman himself on the
harpsichord. The second set of
quartets was published in Paris
during this visit in 1738. Two
years later Telemann related the
following:
"The admirable performances of
these quartets by Messrs Blavet
(transverse flute), Guignon
(violin), the younger Forcroy
[i.e. Forqueray] (viola da gamba)
and Edouard (cello) would be worth
describing were it possible for
words to be found to do them
justice. In short, they won the
attention of the ears of the court
and the town, and procured for me
in a very little time an almost
universal renown and increased
esteem."
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✣
✣Friday
noon, March 22, 2024 at 12:00
NOON in Port Townsend ✣
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✣
FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed flute ~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
As
the most celebrated composer in all of
Europe for much of his career, Franz Joseph
Haydn (1732-1809) was Mozart’s mentor and
friend as well as Beethoven’s tutor. The
program will include three trios for flute,
violin and cello by Haydn, selections from a
1795 arrangement for these instruments of
Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, and a trio
by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a friend of
Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven who published
music by all three.
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✣
✣Sunday,
April 7, 2024 at St.
Paul's ✣
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✣ Myers">
SPRINGTIME
BAROQUE:
AIRS for SPRING
Arwen
Myers
~
soprano
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque
flute ~
Johann
Sebastin Bach
Seele,
deine Spätzereien
(from
the Easter Oratorio)
Louis-Nicolas
Clérambault
Orphée
(Cantata)
George
Frideric Handel
Singe,
Seele & Flammende Rose
(from
9 German Arias)
Toussaint
Bordet
Recueil
D'Airs Avec Accompagnement de
Flute
(selections)
Francois Couperin
Les
Fauvétes Plaintives & La
Linote-éfarouchée
(harpsichord
solo)
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✣
✣Sunday,
May 5, 2024 at
2:00 PM at St.
Paul's ✣
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✣
RENAISSANCE
PSALMS,
IRISH
BAROQUE & FOLK
Oleg
TImofeyev
renaissance
lute, English guitar
&
7-string guitar (1820)
Jeffrey Cohan
renaissance
& baroque flutes
&
8-keyed flute (1820)
17th
Century
Nicolas
Vallet
Jacob
Van Eyck
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
18th
Century
James
Oswald
Francesco
Barsanti
Turlough
O'Carolan
19th
Century
Mauro
Giuliani
Louis
Drouet
Charles
Nicholson
This
program, in
three parts,
opens with
settings of
Psalms and
variations on
folk melodies
by early
17th-century
flutist Jacob
Van Eyck,
lutenist
Nicolas Vallet
and others
performed on renaissance
descant, tenor
and bass
transverse
flutes
and lute.
Then, baroque
flute and the
rare
but once quite
popular
wire-strung
English Guitar
of the 18th
century is to
be heard
performing the
folk tunes of
Scotland and
Ireland as
interpreted
and varied by
the early
18th-century
composers
Francesco
Barsanti,
Turlough
O'Carolan,
James Oswald
and others.
Finally, an
Eastern
European
7-string
guitar made in
1820 in Russia
alongside an
eight-keyed
flute made in
London in the
same year
bring to life
variations on
popular tunes
by Mauro
Giuliani,
Louis Drouet,
Charles
Nicholson and
other virtuoso
flutists and
guitarists of
Beethoven’s
day.
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✣Sunday
afternoon, May
26, 2024 at 2 PM
in Port
Townsend ✣
✣
BAROQUE
CONCERTI
Carrie
Krause
~
baroque
violin ~
Jonathan
Oddie
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~ Elizabeth
Phelps & Courtney
Kuroda
~
baroque
violin
~
Victoria
Gunn
~
baroque
viola
~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello
~
JACQUES
AUBERT
Concerto
in D Major, Opus
26 No. 3
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Flute
Concerto "La
Notte", Opus
10 No. 2
CARL
PHILIPP EMANUEL
BACH
Flute
Concerti in D
Minor, Wq 22a
JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH Triple
Concerto in A
Minor for
Harpsichord,
Violin and
Flute, BWV 1044
✣
✣Sunday,
June 30, 2024
at 2:00 PM at
St. Paul's ✣
✣
Johann
Sebastian
BACH
Faythe
Vollrath
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
baroque flute
~
Harpsichordist
Faythe
Vollrath from
Sacramento, CA
will join
baroque
flutist
Jeffrey Cohan
for this
mostly-Bach
extravaganza
in the eighth
and final 2024
Salish Sea
Early Music
Festival
performance
demonstrating
the
unparalleled
mystery and
emotional
intensity of
Bach’s
compositional
abilities,
featuring
transcriptions
of his works
originally for
viola da gamba
and another
for violin,
both with
obbligato (or
fully
written-out)
harpsichord in
addition to
sonatas
originally
written for
flute by Bach
both with
continuo (a
bass line with
numbers
denoting
harmonies from
which the
harpsichordist
improvises)
and with
obbligato
harpsichord.
Faythe
Vollrath will
play
variations for
solo
harpsichord by
Johann Adam
Reinken
(1643-1722) on
the popular
German folk
tune
“Schweiget mir
von
Weibernehmen”
(‘shush, no
more talk
about
womanizing”).
Reinken was
greatly
admired by
Bach, who made
arrangements
of several of
his works.
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
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