SKAGIT
VALLEY
TRINITY ANGLICAN
CHURCH
· 1200
Cleveland Ave
downtown
MOUNT VERNON
We are grateful to
Trinity Anglican Church
for graciously offering to provide
a home for our concerts while
Fir-Conway Lutheran Church ungergoes extensive
renovations.
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to
Trinity Anglican Church
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2026 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in the
Skagit Valley
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Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in the Skagit Valley and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with Trinity Anglican Church ~
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All Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in Mount
Vernon
★ download 2026 Skagit flyer here
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Wednesday,
March
18, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount
Vernon)
—FOLK
SONG FROM THREE
CENTURIES II
Renaissance
Psalms, Scottish Baroque
& Folk
· Oleg
Timofeyev,
renaissance lute, English
guitar & 7-string
guitar (1820)
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
renaissance, baroque &
8-keyed flutes (London,
1820)
Innovative
renditions of renaissance
Psalms (~1620), Irish and
Scottish baroque (~1720)
and folk music as
interpreted during
Beethoven's lifetime
(~1820) outlines this 100%
new program continuing
Oleg and Jeffrey's
exploration of settings
from three centuries of
popular and folk music,
performed on 5 transverse
flutes and three plucked
instruments.
Two experiments in
particular are worth of
mention. In the early 17th
century Flutist Jacob Van
Eyck and lutenist Nicolas
Vallet both wrote settings
of many of the Psalm tunes
from the Geneva Psalter of
the mid-16th century.
Timofreyev and Cohan
juxtapose these in a
manner that sheds new
light on early
17th-century
improvisational practice.
James Oswald's "Airs for
the Seasons" consists of
four collections, one for
each season, of about 24
airs or multi-movement
suites, each dedicated to
a particular flower of the
season and radiating the
charming character of the
folk melodies of Oswald's
native Scotland. The wire
strung English guitar, so
rarely to be heard today,
emerged around this time
as one of the most
prominent instruments of
home life in England, and
Oswald's airs beautifully
suit Oleg's instrument
made in 1767 alongside the
one-keyed baroque flute.
LISTEN:
Oleg
Timofeyev and Jeffrey
Cohan play Drouet's God
Save the Queen on
SoundCloud:
★
★ ★
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Wednesday,
April
29, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in
Mount Vernon)
—TELEMANN
PARIS QUARTETS
· David
Greenberg,
baroque violin
· Susie
Napper,
viola da gamba
· Elisabeth
Wright,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque flute
Six
quatuors
(1730):
Concerto
1 in G
Sonata
1 in A
Suite
1 in e
Nouveaux
quatuors en six
suites (1738):
2e.
Quatuor in A Minor
Telemann composed his
12 brilliant “Paris
Quartets” in Hamburg
and then Paris in
response to a request
in 1730 from the most
famous Parisian flute,
violin and cello
virtuosi which
resulted in his most
significant journey
away from home during
his lifetime. This
year we present four
new quartets, to
include a selection
from each of his four
sets of quartets in
sonata, suite and
concerto format.
"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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Wednesday,
May
13, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in
Mount Vernon)
—BACH
& HANDEL
·
Maike
Albrecht,
soprano
·
Hans-Jürgen
Schnoor,
harpsichord
·
Susie Napper
(Montreal), viola da
gamba
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque flute
Vocal masterworks to
be presented include 6
of Handel's 9 exquisite
German Arias,
selected arias from
cantatas by Bach, his
Italian Concerto
for solo harpsichord,
and flute sonata by
Handel and Bach's
cantata Ich habe
genug.
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Thursday,
May 21, 2026 in
Seattle only:
at 7:00 PM (not 7:30!)
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—GOLDBERG
VARIATIONS
·
Hans-Jürgen
Schnoor,
harpsichord
Hans-Jürgen Schnoor,
often organist at the
St. Marien Kirche to
which Bach walked for
three days to hear
Dietrich Buxtehude,
has performed the
Goldberg Variations
more than 125 times,
possibly more than any
other living
harpsichordist.
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 Wednesday,
June
17, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount
Vernon)
—JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
· Irene
Roldàn,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
Award-winning
harpsichordist Irene
Roldán (www.ireneroldan.com)
was born in southern Spain in
1997. Described by the press
as one of the most prominent
Spanish harpsichordists on the
international scene (ABC
Sevilla), Irene currently
lives and works in Basel,
Switzerland. She gained
international recognition in
2021, when she won first
prize, never previously
awarded in this competition,
as well as the audience prize
at the III. International
Harpsichord Competition «Città
di Milano». In the same year,
her ensemble Flor Galante
secured the first prize at the
IV. International Bach
Competition in Berlin. One
year later, Irene was honored
with the prestigious Bach
Prize and an additional
special award at the XXXIII.
International Bach Competition
held in Leipzig, Germany.
Irene
Roldàn’s
participation
in these
performances
has been made
possible with
help from the
Honorary
Consulate of
Spain in
Seattle and
from to the
Programme for
the
Internationalisation
of Spanish
Culture (PICE)
of Acción
Cultural
Española
(AC/E), which
seeks to
promote
Spanish
culture
through the
inclusion of
Spanish
artists and
creators
residing in
Spain in the
programming of
cultural
events outside
of Spain.
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Wednesday,
July
1, 2026
at 7:00 PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount
Vernon)
—PARDESSUS
DE VIOLE, FLUTE & GUITAR
· Annalisa
Pappano,
pardessus de viol and treble
viol
· William Simms,
baroque guitar and theorbo
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
The
French royal court musical
establishment generated a vast
amount of music, to be
represented by works of
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin
Marais, Jacques Hotteterre and
others.
★
★ ★
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Earlier concerts this 2026 season
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Wednesday,
January 21, 2026 at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount Vernon)
— A
LITTLE CONCERT FOR LOUIS XIV
· Y Hsuan (Ethan) Lin,
baroque violin
· Vicki
Gunn, baroque viola
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque
flute
· Anna
Marsh, baroque
bassoon
André
Danican Philidor l'ainé, the
aging Louis XIV's long-time
music librarian, prepared the
king's favorite operas and
ballets alongside chamber
music by Lully and Philidor
himself
for little evening concerts
given before his majesty, all
reduced for a smaller number of
musicians who presented these
grand works in the intimate
setting greatly preferred during
this period by the king, at
least a quarter of a century
after the death of the composer
of most of these works,
Jean-Baptiste Lully.
★
★ ★
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Wednesday,
February 11, 2026 at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount Vernon)
— The
ITALIAN and FRENCH PERSPECTIVE
· Susie Napper
(Montreal), viola da gamba
· Olena Zhukova
(Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord
· Mélisande
Corriveau
(Montreal), treble viol
· Jeffrey Cohan,
renaissance & baroque
flutes
Olena Zhukova from Kyiv and
Les Voix humaines, the widely
celebrated prize-winning duo
of viols from Montreal join us
for a program illuminating a
radically evolving musical
perspective through the 17th
century.
LISTEN:
Les Voix Humaines plays
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 Wednesday,
February 25, 2026 at 7:00
PM:
(Trinity
Anglican Church in Mount Vernon)
— EUROPEAN
TOUR 1690-1790
· Olena
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
Ukraine, France,
Italy, Scotland, Germany and
Austria with music by Berezofzkyj,
Boismortier, Corelli, Oswald,
Mozart and Bach.
Olena Zhukova of
Kyiv, Ukraine, a leading
harpsichordist and a
tireless ambassador for
early music in her
country and abroad,
has performed since the
outbreak of full-scale war
in prominent performances
sponsored by distinguished
institutions all around
Ukraine, Poland, Austria,
France, Switzerland and
Czech Republic for
international festivals and
in collaboration with major
artists, orchestras and
opera productions. Ms.
Zhukova is also an
accomplished scholar who
published and presented more
than 20 articles, while
devoting herself to her
harpsichord class and
chamber music students as
Associate Professor at both
the National Music
Academy of Ukraine and
the Gliére Academy of
Music (Kiev), where
she founded the harpsichord
class. Recent engagements
during the past few months
alone include Bach's
Goldberg Variations in the
prestigious Organ Hall
in Lviv, Ukraine; the first
major classical performance
for the public in Chernihiv,
Ukraine since
the outbreak of war entitled
French
Music in Times of War
and sponsored by the
Ambassador of France, in a
newly rebuilt performance
hall in Chernihiv that had
previously been extensively
damaged by a Russian strike
at the beginning of the
conflict; and an involved
program, consisting
exclusively of new music for
harpsichord composed
in part for
her by today's Ukrainian
composers, for Columbia
University’s Global
Center in Paris and
its Institute for Ideas
and Imagination.
★
★ ★
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In
1676, Thomas Mace expresses our
musical aspirations: "I have been
more Sensibly, Fervently, and
Zealously Captivated, and drawn into
Divine Raptures, and Contemplations,
by Those Unexpressible Rhetorical,
Uncontroulable Perswasions, and
Instructions of Musicks Divine
Language."
Sloane
wrote in about 1794 that "There must
be an Order and just Proportion,
Intricacy with Simplicity in the
Component parts, Variety in the
Mass, and Light and Shadow in the
whole, so as to produce the varied
sensations of gaiety and melancholy,
of wildness and even surprise and
wonder…"
As Thomas Mace says in 1676: "…When
we come to be Masters… we can
command all manner of Time, at our
own Pleasures; we Then take Liberty
for Humour and good Adornment-sake,
to Break Time; sometimes Faster,
sometimes Slower, as we perceive,
the Nature of the Thing Requires,
which…adds much Grace and Luster to
the Performance."
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March 12, 2026
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