SKAGIT VALLEY
FIR-CONWAY LUTHERAN CHURCH 18101 Fir Island Road · (360) 445-5396 http://www.firconwaylutheran.org/

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$15, $20 or $25
(a free will offering - everyone welcome)
• 18 and under FREE •
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SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music in the Skagit Valley
thanks to your support.

The
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.
All
donations through EMA are fully tax-deductible. Please be sure to designate
your gift for "EMA Affiliate Organization" and specify that it is for the Salish Sea
Early Music Festival. Your gift may be matched by your employer.
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2022 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Skagit Valley
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Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries in the Skagit Valley and around the Salish
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Jeffrey Cohan and Oleg Timofeyev in Lviv, Ukraine
following one of their many performances throughout Ukraine
• Sunday afternoon, March 20, 2022 at 1:30 PM •
(the later 3 performances will be at 7:00 PM)
I. RUSSIAN GUITAR and BEETHOVEN'S FLUTE
FOR OUR FRIENDS IN UKRAINE
Oleg TImofeyev ~ guitar (1815)
Jeffrey Cohan ~ eight-keyed flute (1820)
The
festival opens with an exploration of Beethoven-era repertoire for
flute and guitar featuring antique Russian and English instruments
and repertoire by prominent flutists and guitarists from Russia,
France, Germany and Italy. Oleg Timofeyev will play a
Russian 7-string guitar made in Russia in 1815 and Jeffrey Cohan will
play an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820.
The
program will include music composed collaboratively by guitarist
Louis Ange Carpentras (1786-1852) and flutist Antoine Tranquille
Berbiguier (1782-1835), along with works by guitarist Mauro Giuliani
(1781-1829), flutist Theodor Gaude (1782-1846), and one of the first
modern-day performances of a sonata for flute and Russian 7-string
guitar by Czech guitarist Ignaz von Held (1764-1816), which can be
heard in an online performance by Timofeyev and Cohan here.
Timofeyev,
originally from Moscow, and Cohan have performed together in Kiev and
in six cities in the north, south, east and west of Ukraine, where
conflict currently rages. Both have ancestors who lived in Ukraine.
For two years Timoveyev lived with his family and did research in
Kiev, funded by a Fulbright fellowship. This concert is dedicated to
the love of the Ukrainian national spirit and the love for their
country that unites all Ukrainians, as witnessed by Timofeyev and
Cohan and as is so evident today.
- Oleg Timofeyev’s notes on the Sonata for Flute and Seven-String Guitar by Ignaz von Held:
In terms of his military and private adventures, Ignaz von Held
(aka Ignacio de Held) would make an excellent protagonist for a
historical novel. Born in Hohenbruck (now Třebechovice pod Orebem,
today’s Czech Republic) into a doctor's family, Ignaz was able to
receive excellent education in the humanities, with a strong emphasis
on music. Following the early death of his father, Ignaz moved to
Poland in 1781 to pursue a military career. His next destination was
St. Petersburg where, due to his many talents and elegant manners, he
received the patronage of Prince Grigory Potemkin. Held’s military
achievements included participation in the 1787-1791 Crimean War
against Turkey. After his benefactor Potemkin died in 1791, Held
returned to Poland where he was promoted to the rank of major and
acquired the status of nobility. But soon he got involved in Tadeusz
Kościuszko’s 1794 uprising against the Russian rule. Upon the ultimate
failure of the revolt, von Held was moved back to Russia to serve a
sentence as a prisoner of war. Fortunately for him, Catherine the Great
soon died in 1796. Paul I disagreed with his mother on a number of
issues and as soon as his monarchy began in 1797, he liberated most of
the Polish fighters.
So, von Held found himself in Moscow, with no military future,
and no money. The time was right to remember about his musical
talents, and he published his 1798 Guitar Method, which is the key
event in the history of the Russian seven-string guitar. Not only was
it the historically first publication for the new instrument, but the
words on the cover strongly suggested that the Russian guitar was
conceived as a hybrid instrument owing its origin to both gut-strung,
figure-eight-shaped Spanish and metal-strung, pear-shaped English
guitars. The Sonata for Flute and Seven-String Guitar included in
Held's Method is the earliest known sonata to involve the Russian
guitar.
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• Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 7:00 PM •
II. 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
Annabeth Shirley ` baroque cello
Special
guest renowned Chicago harpsichordist David Schrader joins Jeffrey
Cohan
and a small orchestra of baroque players for harpsichord and flute
concerti from the court of
Frederick the Great by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Joachim
Quantz, King Frederick the Great II of Prussia and other composers
associated with the Prussian king’s renowned musical establishment.
David and Jeffrey presented Concert Spirituel at the Church of the
Ascension in Chicago for several years.
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• Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 7:00 PM •
III. BAROQUE QUARTET
Susie Napper ~ viola da gamba Elisabeth Wright ~ harpsichord
David Greenberg ~ baroque violin
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Internationally
known period instrument specialists Elisabeth Wright
(harpsichord), Susie Napper (viola da gamba), David Greenberg (baroque
violin) and Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) join forces to present
baroque quartets by Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann
Sebastian Bach and others..
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This concert will take place at the Croatian Cultural Center
at 801 - 5th Street in Anacortes
Co-presented by the Anacortes Arts Foundation
admission $25 • Reservations may be required
• Friday, May 27, 2022 at 7:00 PM •
IV. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
BRANDENBURG 5 & TRIPLE CONCERTO
Jonathan Oddie ~ harpsichord
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Carrie Krause~ baroque violin
Elizabeth Phelps ~ baroque violin
Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin
Lindsey Strand-Polyak ~ baroque viola
Martin Bonham ~ baroque cello
In
a favorite program we have twice offered in previous seasons, harpsichordist
Jonathan Oddie, newly named professor of harpsichord at the Jacobs
School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, returns to perform two of the
most moving and difficult works for harpsichord and orchestra with
baroque violin soloist Cari Krause, baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan and
baroque string orchestra.
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~ updated March 7, 2022 ~
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SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music thanks to your support.

The
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.
All
donations through EMA (please see www.earlymusicamerica.org) are fully tax-deductible. Be sure to designate
your gift for "EMA Affiliate Organization" and specify that it is for the Salish Sea
Early Music Festival. Your gift may be matched by your employer.
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