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,
June
17, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
—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.
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Wednesday,
July
1, 2026
at 7:00 PM:
—THE TREBLE VIOL
· Annalisa
Pappano, treble viol
· William Simms, baroque
guitar and theorbo
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque
and renaissance flutes
The
Treble Viol, the smaller cousin of the
viola da gamba, will be showcased in a
diverse selection of 17th and early
18th-century Italian, English and French
and German music alongside both
renaissance and baroque transverse flutes
and lute. Composers to be represented
include Buonamente, Lawes, Cima, Dornel,
Lully and Cheron.
★
★ ★
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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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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!) •
—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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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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May 30, 2026
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