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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.
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With special thanks
✣ to
Grace Episcopal Church
2025
Salish
Sea Early Music Festival on Lopez Island ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
on Lopez Island and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with Grace Episcopal Church ~
~
Please check back soonfor specific
Lopez Island
dates ~
~
2025 Tentative
Schedule
~
January
14-26: — THE
CANZONA
· Vicki
Boeckman,
renaissance recorders
· Tina
Chancey,
tenor viol
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
renaissance transverse
flutes
· Anna
Marsh,
dulcian (renaissance
bassoon)
An entirely new program
exploring the birth and
development of the
transitional
Canzona, as it was
inspired by early
16th-century chansons
and evolved into the
early 17th-century
baroque sonata and
suite. Featuring special
guest renaissance
specialist and
innovative improviser
Tina Chancey from
Hesperus in Washington,
DC.
February 17 - March
2: — THE
CHACONNE
· Susie
Napper, viola
da gamba & treble
viol
· Mélisande
Corriveau,
viola da gamba &
pardessus de viol
· Elisabeth
Wright,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque and renaissance
flutes Les
Voix humaines,
the widely celebrated
prize-winning duo of
viols from Montreal
joins us for a program
centering on the
chaconne of the late
17th century but
extending from the early
17th century through
Johann Sebastian Bach.
March 5-13: — TRIO
SONATAS
· Bernward
Lohr,
harpsichord
· Anne
Röhrig,
violin
· Susie
Napper, viola
da gamba
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque flute
Trio sonata
mastierpieces by Georg
Philipp Telemann,
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain
and Jean Baptiste
Quentin le jeune with
our Musica
Alta Ripa
friends from Hannover.
March
27-30: —
HARPSICHORD
MYSTERY
· Elena
Zhukova,
harpsichord
The Ukrainian
harpsichordist
deciphers mysterious
and elusive rarities
as well as standards
for solo harpsichord
by Byrd, Couperin,
Rameau and Scarlatti
alongside Ukrainian
gems including a
harpsichord sonata by
Dmitry Bortnyansky.
[only in certain
locations]
March
27-April 17: — EUROPEAN
TOUR 1690-1790
· Elena
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 France, Italy,
Scotland, Germany and
Ukraine.
April 28-May 8: — The
MUSIQUE DE LA
CHAMBRE of LOUIS XIV
· Caroline
Nicolas,
viola da gamba
· William
Simms,
theorbo & baroque
guitar
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque and
renaissance flutes
The SUn King's court
musical establishment
is to be represented
by Jean-Baptiste
Lully, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La Guerre,
Marin Marais, Jacques
Hotteterre, etc.,
including music
designated for the
king's bedtime,
evening concerts and
banquets, with our
special guests from
New York and
Baltimore.
May 13-26: — 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
A completely new
assortment of concerti
for harpsichord and
flute from the
illustrious members of
the musical
establishment of
flutist Frederick the
Great, King of
Prussia, including
Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach, Johann Joachim
Quantz, and Frederick
himself.
June 3-12: — BEETHOVEN'S
FLUTE, VIOLA &
GUITAR
· Elizabeth
Blumenstock,
viola
· Oleg
TImofeyev,
7-string guitar
(Moscow, 1820)
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
8-keyed flute (London,
1820)
Repertoire abounds for
this popular ensemble
of guitar, viola and
flute during
Beethoven's time. With
outstanding violinist
and violist Elizabeth
Blumenstock.
July 7-9: — THE
18TH-CENTURY
HARPSICHORD IN SPAIN
· Irene
Roldàn,
harpsichord
Step into the heart of
18th-century Iberia,
where the vibrant
court of Madrid stood
as a focal point for
the flourishing of the
rich keyboard music of
Domenico Scarlatti,
Sebastian de Albero,
Jose de Nebra, and the
Portuguese Carlos
Seixas. [only in
certain locations]
July 10-21: — JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
· Irene
Roldàn,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan,
baroque flute
Spanish harpsichordist
Irene Roldàn from
Basel and Jeffrey
interpret Bach's
phenomenal music for
flute and harpsichord.
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Earlier concerts this past 2024 season
~
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✣
✣Saturday,
JANUARY 20, 2024
at 1:00 PM at Grace Church ✣
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✣
THREE
CENTURIES:
GUITAR,
THEORBO & FLUTE
Michael
Freimuth
~
renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th
Century
Diego
Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni
Bassano
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
17th
Century
Giovanni
Paulo Cima
Girolamo
Frescobaldi
Giovanni
Battista Fontana
Giovanni
Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
18th
Century
Arcangelo
Corelli
• André Chéron
Robert
de Visée
Join
us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and an unusual and
expansive journey through the music for
guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, including elaborate
jazzed-up versions of well known songs
of the time, published by the incredible
wind instrument virtuosi of the late
16th century, along with canzonas,
sonatas and suites from Spain, Italy,
England and France. The instruments
include the renaissance guitar, which is
considerably smaller and more
mellow-toned than its modern descendant,
theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute),
the one-piece cylindrical renaissance
flute along with the bass renaissance
flute, and the one-keyed baroque flute.
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✣
✣Saturday,
February 17, 2024 at 1:00 pm on
Lopez ✣
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✣
SIMPHONIE
NOUVELLE:
LOUIS
XIV & J.S. BACH
Stephen
Stubbs
~ baroque
guitar ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
guitarists
Diego
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) Robert
De Visée (c.1655-1733) viola
da gambists
Monsieur
de Sainte Colombe
(c.1640-c.1700) Marin
Marais (1656-1728) Jacques
Morel (c.1680-c.1740) flutist
Michel
de la Barre (c.1675-1745) composers
Élisabeth
Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733) Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Louis
XIV gathered the finest musicians of
France at his court in Versailles and this
program features many of the late 17th and
early 18th-century guitarists, viola da
gambists, flutists and other composers
associated with his illustrious musical
establishment, alongside the Sonata in E
Minor, BWV 1034 of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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✣
✣Saturday,
February 24, 2024 at 1:00 pm
on Lopez ✣
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✣
GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Quadri
a violino, flauto traversiere, viola
da gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento (1730):
Concerto
II in D Major
Sonata
II in G Minor
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites (1738):
Premier
Quatuor in D Major 4e.
Quatuor in B Minor
Having been invited by several
of the most prominent French
musicians to visit Paris,
Telemann composed and published
the first set of his remarkable
"Paris Quartets" in 1730, and
left Hamburg for Paris seven
years later, where all 12 of the
quartets were performed, almost
surely with Teleman himself on
the harpsichord. The second set
of quartets was published in
Paris during this visit in 1738.
Two years later Telemann related
the following:
"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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✣
✣Saturday,
March 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM on
Lopez Island ✣
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✣
FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed flute
~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
As the most celebrated
composer in all of Europe for
much of his career, Franz
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was
Mozart’s mentor and friend as
well as Beethoven’s tutor. The
program will include three
trios for flute, violin and
cello by Haydn, selections
from a 1795 arrangement for
these instruments of Mozart’s
opera “The Magic Flute”, and a
trio by Franz Anton
Hoffmeister, a friend of
Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
who published music by all
three.
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✣
✣Saturday,
April 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM at Grace
Church ✣
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SPRINGTIME
BAROQUE:
AIRS for SPRING
Arwen
Myers
~
soprano
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque
flute ~
Johann
Sebastin Bach
Seele,
deine Spätzereien
(from
the Easter Oratorio)
Louis-Nicolas
Clérambault
Orphée
(Cantata)
George
Frideric Handel
Singe,
Seele & Flammende Rose
(from
9 German Arias)
Toussaint
Bordet
Recueil
D'Airs Avec Accompagnement de Flute
(selections)
Louis Couperin
Les
Fauvétes Plaintives & La
Linote-éfarouchée
(harpsichord
solo)
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✣
✣Saturday,
May 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM at
Grace Church ✣
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✣
RENAISSANCE
PSALMS,
IRISH
BAROQUE & FOLK
Oleg
TImofeyev
renaissance
lute, English guitar
&
7-string guitar (1820)
Jeffrey Cohan
renaissance
& baroque flutes
&
8-keyed flute (1820)
17th
Century
Nicolas
Vallet
Jacob
Van Eyck
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
18th
Century
James
Oswald
Francesco
Barsanti
Turlough
O'Carolan
19th
Century
Mauro
Giuliani
Louis
Drouet
Charles
Nicholson
This
program, in three
parts, opens with
settings of Psalms and
variations on folk
melodies by early
17th-century flutist
Jacob Van Eyck,
lutenist Nicolas
Vallet and others
performed on renaissance
descant, tenor and
bass transverse
flutes and
lute. Then, baroque
flute and the rare
but once quite
popular wire-strung
English Guitar of the
18th century is to be
heard performing the
folk tunes of Scotland
and Ireland as
interpreted and varied
by the early
18th-century composers
Francesco Barsanti,
Turlough O'Carolan,
James Oswald and
others. Finally, an
Eastern European
7-string guitar made
in 1820 in Russia
alongside an
eight-keyed flute made
in London in the same
year bring to life
variations on popular
tunes by Mauro
Giuliani, Louis
Drouet, Charles
Nicholson and other
virtuoso flutists and
guitarists of
Beethoven’s day.
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✣
✣Saturday
afternoon, May 25, 2024 at
1 PM on Lopez Island
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✣
BAROQUE
CONCERTI
Carrie
Krause
~
baroque
violin ~
Jonathan
Oddie
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~ Elizabeth
Phelps & Courtney
Kuroda
~
baroque
violin ~
Victoria
Gunn
~
baroque
viola ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
JACQUES
AUBERT
Concerto
in D Major, Opus 26 No. 3
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Flute
Concerto "La Notte",
Opus 10 No. 2
CARL
PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Flute
Concerti in D Minor,
Wq 22a
JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH Triple
Concerto in A Minor for
Harpsichord, Violin and
Flute, BWV 1044
✣
✣Tuesday,
July 9, 2024 at
7:00 PM at Grace
Church ✣
✣
(originally
scheduled for Saturday
July 6)
Johann
Sebastian
BACH
Faythe
Vollrath
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
baroque flute
~
Harpsichordist
Faythe
Vollrath from
Sacramento, CA
will join
baroque
flutist
Jeffrey Cohan
for this
mostly-Bach
extravaganza
in the eighth
and final 2024
Salish Sea
Early Music
Festival
performance
demonstrating
the
unparalleled
mystery and
emotional
intensity of
Bach’s
compositional
abilities,
featuring
transcriptions
of his works
originally for
viola da gamba
and another
for violin,
both with
obbligato (or
fully
written-out)
harpsichord in
addition to
sonatas
originally
written for
flute by Bach
both with
continuo (a
bass line with
numbers
denoting
harmonies from
which the
harpsichordist
improvises)
and with
obbligato
harpsichord.
Faythe
Vollrath will
play
variations for
solo
harpsichord by
Johann Adam
Reinken
(1643-1722) on
the popular
German folk
tune
“Schweiget mir
von
Weibernehmen”
(‘shush, no
more talk
about
womanizing”).
Reinken was
greatly
admired by
Bach, who made
arrangements
of several of
his works.
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
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