2020 Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Vashon Island
~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries on Vashon Island and around the Salish Sea ~

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~ Please join us next season for this performance ~  • Thursday, March 19, 2020 at noon • GIULIANI & FRIENDS Oleg TImofeyev ~ guitar (1815) Jeffrey Cohan ~ eight-keyed flute (1820) Music from the golden age of the guitar-flute duo

~ Please join us next season for this performance ~ • Thursday, April 2, 2020 at noon • MUSICA ALTA RIPA & FRIENDS Anne Röhrig ~ baroque flute Bernward Lohr ~ harpsichord Jeffrey Cohan~ baroque flute We welcome Musica Alta Ripa founders and Telemann specialists Anne Röhrig and Bernward Lohr in this program of sonatas and trio sonatas.

~ Please join us next season for this performance ~ • Thursday, April 23, 2020 at noon • LOUIS XV Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute   John Lenti ~ theorbo & guitar Although he witnessed a period of unrestrained creativity and development in art music, Louis XV did not share the profound love of music for which his great-grandfather Louis XIV was famed, either at the age of five when he became king or later during his 59 year reign. Nevertheless the vibrancy of the musical activity around him during the early decades of his reign, for which his grandfather was largely responsible, will be demonstrated in this performance of Pierre Danican Philidor, Jean-Marie Leclair, Michel Blavet and others.

~ Please join us next season for this performance ~  • Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2 PM • BUONAMENTE Anna Marsh ~ dulcian (renaissance bassoon) John Lenti ~ theorbo Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute Further exploration of the rarely-heard Italian canzonas and sonatas for treble and bass solo instruments and continuo, in particular focusing on two of our favorite composers: Giovanni Battista Buonamente and Tarquinio Merula.

~ Earlier this season ~

• Thursday, January 23, 2020 at noon • LOUIS XIV Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Courtney Kuroda ~ violin   Victoria Gunn ~ viola   Anna Marsh ~ baroque bassoon Further exploration of an extensive unpublished manuscript containing suites prepared for concerts given for Louis XIV near the end of his reign.

• Thursday, January 30, 2020 at noon • MOZART FLUTE QUARTETS Jeffrey Cohan ~ 8-keyed flute   Carrie Krause~ violin Victoria Gunn ~ viola Caroline Nicolas ~ cello The complete flute quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

~ only in La Connor ~ • March 1, 2020 at 3:00 PM • BEETHOVEN 250 YEARS Hans-Jürgen Schnoor ~ fortepiano (1814) Jeffrey Cohan ~ 8-keyed flute (1820) Please contact salishseafestival@aol.com.   In celebration of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Skagit Early keyboard Museum and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival present a Sunday matinee at 3:00 pm with renowned historical keyboardist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, performing on the Johann Fritz grand fortepiano (Vienna, 1814). He will be joined by  flutist Jeffrey Cohan, Artistic Director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.   The program will include the path-breaking final three solo fortepiano Sonatas, opp. 109, 110 & 111, composed between 1820 and 1821. Hans-Jürgen Schnoor will be accompanied by Jeffrey Cohan playing an eight-keyed flute made in London precisely 200 years ago in selections from National Airs with Variations for Fortepiano with Flute, opus 105 & 107, composed in 1818-1819.. To be held at the new Skagit Early Keyboard Museum in the vicinity of Snee-Oosh Point near La Conner, WA. Seating is limited, so please write for the exact address to salishseafestival@aol.com.

• Thursday, March 5, 2020 at noon • BURNEY'S TRAVELS Susie Napper ~ cello Hans-Jürgen Schnoor ~ harpsichord Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Charles Burney (1726-1814) met Handel, Haydn, CPE Bach and many of Europe's celebrated composers over the course of his life and traveled extensively through France, Italy, Austria and Germany between 1770 and 1772 to interview musicians and gather information for his History of Music. The breadth of national and evolving musical characterictics that he encountered will be reflected in chamber music by George Friderick Handel, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach, Frederich II of Prussia, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Benda and Giovanni Battista Sammartini.

~ updated April 27, 2020 ~ Suggested Donation for all concerts: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering - everyone welcome) •  18 and under FREE  • Do you receive our email announcements and flyers?! Please sign our MAILING LIST (specify Vashon) by sending your address and any other comments to salishseafestival@aol.com ~ thank you! SSEMF banner: detail from "The Last Time it Reached Zero" by James C. Holl. 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.