2018 Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Vashon Island
~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries on Vashon Island and around the Salish Sea ~

• Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 7:00 PM • SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS Oleg TImofeyev ~ baroque lute Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), the most prolific and highly esteemed lutenist of the baroque who is reported to have rivaled Johann Sebastian Bach in improvisational skill and worked for more than three decades at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden alongside French flute virtuoso Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1689-1768), wrote much music for obbligato, or fully written out, lute and flute. The flute part has unfortunately been lost but a new reconstruction is to be premiered in this performance. The program will also include music for obbligato lute and flute by lutenist Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696-1760) and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739-1796), a student of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

~ previous performances this season ~

• Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 12:00 NOON • TREBLE VIOL, BAROQUE GUITAR & FLUTE Annalisa Pappano (Cincinnati) ~ treble viol Michael Freimuth (Kiel, Germany) ~ baroque guitar Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance & baroque flutes The treble viol was widely used during the 17th and early 18th centuries but is seldom to be heard today, particularly in combination with renaissance transverse flute. Our opening performance features Annalisa Pappano from Cincinnati, one of the world's foremost players of treble viol, who also plays the pardessus de viole, lirone and viola da gamba and directs the Catacoustic Consort, and Michael Freimuth from Kiel Germany, one of Europe's most active performers on baroque guitar and theorbo. This exploration of mostly French and Italian repertoire for treble viol, baroque guitar and flute from about 1625 to 1725 will present solos, duos and trios by Buonamente, Sweelinck, Heudelinne, Lully, De Visee and Cheron.

• Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 7:00 PM • FOUR PART CANZONAS 1585-1625 Anna Marsh ~ dulcian (renaissance bassoon) Courtney Kuroda ~  violin Stephen Criswell ~ viola Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute An in-depth exploration of the rarely-heard Italian four-part canzona, inspired by four-part French and Flemish chansons, which blossomed in print from 1582 to 1628 concurrently with increasing activity among violin makers and players in Milan, Brescia and Cremona, and with the emerging "baroque" style.

• Sunday afternoon, April 8, 2018 at 2:00 PM • SONGS WITHOUT WORDS 1550-1750 Susie Napper ~ viola da gamba Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance and baroque flutes An intimate tribute to the power of song as rendered instrumentally: renaissance two-part settings of 16th-century French songs, virtuoso diminutions on Palestrina's beautiful madrigal Vestiva e colli, selections from Cima's Concerti Ecclesiastici, exquisite airs de cour from the time of Louis XIII and Louis XIV and favorite Scottish and Irish airs as rendered by 18th-century insrumentalists. Also music by Johann Sebastian Bach, James Oswald and Georg Friderick Handel.

• Friday, May 18, 2018 at 12:00 NOON • (originally scheduled for May 16) THE ABLE VIRTUOSO Carrie Krause ~ baroque violin John Lenti ~ theorbo & baroque guitar Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Johann Mattheson's "The Asble Virtuoso", published in Hamburg in 1720, sets the tone for this program of trio sonatas inspired by Corelli and the idea that Italian, French, and German styles might be fused in an integrated musical style.

• Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 7:00 PM • BACH's BRANDENBURG CONCERTO Carrie Krause ~ baroque violin Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Jonathan Oddie ~ harpsichord Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin Stephen Creswell ~ baroque viola Anna Marsh ~ baroque bassoon The 5th Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach and other works for flute, violin, harpsichord and string chamber orchestra.

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