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2026 Salish Sea
Early Music Festival in Colville ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in Colville and around Washington State ~
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Presented in collaboration with
Immaculate Conception Catholic Parish
and
the CIty of Colville's Vinson Fund ~
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Earlier concerts this 2026 season
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Monday,
June 15, 2026
at 7:00
PM at
Immaculate
Conception
Catholic
Church:
—BACH
&
JACQUET
Johann
Sebastian Bach
&
Elisabeth-Claude
Jacquet de la
Guerre
· Irene
Roldàn,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque flute
Guest
Spanish
harpsichordist
Irene Roldán from
Basel, Switzerland
and baroque
flutist Jeffrey
Cohan explore
connections
between Johann
Sebastian Bach and
French composers
such as Élisabeth
Jacquet de La
Guerre and Louis
Couperin, from
whose innovations
Bach was to
benefit.
Harpsichord solos
including La
Guerre’s Prélude
in D Minor, La
Zaïde by Pancrace
Royer, and the
Suite in F Major
by Louis Couperin
will complement
flute sonatas in E
Major and G Minor
by Johann
Sebastian Bach
alongside the
performers’
transcriptions of
Bach’s violin
sonata in C Minor
and the violin
sonata in D Major
by É. Jacquet de
La Guerre
Born 20 years
before Johann
Sebastian Bach and
a favorite
composer of Louis
XIV, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La
Guerre made many
important
contributions in
her compositions
both for solo
keyboard and in
the development of
the cantata, all
the while
juxtaposing and
integrating the
distinct French
and Italian
styles, setting
the stage for
similar techniques
and forms that
Bach was later to
use extensively
and develop
further.
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.
★
★
★
This
performance is
supported by
the City of
Colville's
Vinson Fund,
enhancing
cultural
enrichment in
Colville and
surroundings.
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:
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.
★
★
★
This
performance is
supported by
the City of
Colville's
Vinson Fund,
enhancing
cultural
enrichment in
Colville and
surroundings.
Jeffrey
Cohan, renaissance
transverse flutes
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano
(1585)
recorded January 11, 2021
~
updated May 30, 2026 ~
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