SPOKANE ST. AUGUSTINE
CATHOLIC CHURCH 428
W 19th Ave, in Spokane·
(509) 747-4421
CATHEDRAL
OF
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
· 1115
W Riverside Avenue ·
(509) 358-4290
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Donation:
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•
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the Salish Sea and in Washington 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
the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes
2025
Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Spokane ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in Spokane and around the Salish Sea ~
UKRAINE
Olena Zhukova
It is a great honor to feature Ukrainian
harpsichordist Olena Zhukova of
Kyiv, Ukraine, a leading harpsichordist
and a tireless ambassador of
early music in her country and
abroad during this
difficult period. She 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 in part
composed for her by today's Ukrainian
composers, for Columbia University’s Global
Center in Paris and its Institute
for Ideas and Imagination.
Ms.
Zhukova will appear in the following
program:
Dates
to be announced: — 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.
Presented
in collaboration with
St.
Augustine Catholic Church
March
16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
St.
Augustine Catholic Church
—
FRENCH BAROQUE
TRIO SONATAS
with MUSICA ALTA RIPA
· Anne
Röhrig,
violin
· Bernward
Lohr, harpsichord
· Susie Napper,
viola da gamba
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
French
trio sonatas and quartets spanning more
than 60 years through the reigns of Louis
XIV and Louis V, alongside a "Paris
Quartet" written by Georg Philipp Telemann
for his visit to Paris in 1738.
Marin
Marais (1656 – 1728)
—
Trio
C major (1682)
Jean-Baptiste Quentin, the young (before
1690 – ca. 1742)
—
Trio
in G minor Opus 8 No. 1 (after 1729)
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705 –
1770)
—
Trio
Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (1743)
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (1697 – 1764)
—
Violin
Sonata in A Minor
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689 –
1755)
—
Trio
Sonata Opus 37 No. 2 in e minor (1732)
MUSICA
ALTA RIPA
Harpsichordist BERNWARD LOHR is director
of Hanover's Musica Alta Ripa, one of
Germany's most active and extensively
recorded period instrument ensembles.
Baroque violinist ANNE RÖHRIG, leads the
Hannoversche Hofkapelle (the "Hanover
Court Orchestra"), another of the premier
baroque orchestras that contributes to the
vibrant early music scene in Hannover and
Northern Germany. “Hannover” originally
evolved from "Hohes Ufer", meaning "high
riverbank" or "Alta Ripa" in Latin.
Bernward Lohr and Anne Röhrig are
professors at music conservatories in both
Hannover and Nuremburg, Germany. Their
more than 30 recordings have garnered many
of the most important awards in Europe for
recordings including the Diapason Dòr, the
Cannes Classical Award, the German
Recording Critics' Prize, and several
times the coveted Echo Klassik Award. Both
were awarded the 2002 Music Award of Lower
Saxony.
~
Earlier concerts last 2024 season
~
Cathedral
of Our Lady of Lourdes
•
Tuesday,
January 30,
2024 at 7:00 PM
•
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✣
✣ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE CANZONAS ✣
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Vicki
Boeckman ~ renaissance recorders
Jeffrey
Cohan ~ renaissance flute
Stephen
Creswell ~ viola
Anna
Marsh ~ renaissance bassoon (dulcian)
The
Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdesand the
Salish Sea Early Music Festival with
support from the Vinson Fund present
Renaissance Italian Canzonas with four
specialists performing on instruments of
the renaissance including Vicki Boeckman
on renaissance recorders, Jeffrey Cohan on
renaissance transverse flute, Stephen
Creswell on viola and Anna Marsh on
dulcian, or renaissance bassoon.
The concert will provide an in-depth
exploration of the Italian four-part
canzona which blossomed in print from 1582
through the early decades of the 1600’s
and was inspired by French and Flemish
chansons of the early 1500’s. It will
trace the development of the canzona from
1529, when commercial music printing was
just beginning in Europe, through 1636 at
which point more “modern” stylistic forms
such as the sonata began to take the place
of the canzona, which had bridged the
musical styles of the Renaissance and the
Baroque. Canzonas by Andrea and Giovanni
Cima, Giacomo Biumi, Floriano Canale,
Giovanni Buonamente, Florentino Maschera,
and others are to be included in the
program along with instrumentl renditions
of the earlier French and Flemish songs
that inspired them. All will be performed
on the recorder, transverse flute, viola
and renaissance bassoon or dulcian of the
16th century which create a beautiful
blend and provide a distinct character to
each of the four intertwining musical
lines.
This
concert only at the
Crossroads Event Center
at
145 S. Main Street in
Colville:
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✣
✣Tuesday, April
30, 2024 at 6:00 PM in
Colville ✣
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~
doors open at 5:30 PM ~
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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✣
✣Friday,
June 28 at 7:00 PM in Spokane✣
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✣
Cathedral
of Our Lady of Lourdes
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.
~
2023
~
Cathedral
of Our Lady of Lourdes
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✣
✣Sunday
MAY 14, 2023 at 2:30 in SPOKANE ✣
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✣
Giovanni
Bellini's Nunc dimittis, or the Song of
Simeon,
which
is also reflected in Johann Sebastian Bach
cantata Ich habe genug
• Monday,
May
15, 2023 at 7:00 PM
• BACH
CANTATA: ICH HABE GENUG Maike
Albrecht ~ soprano
Hans-Jurgen Schnoor~ harpsichord
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Soprano
Maike Albrecht and harpsichordist
Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lubeck,
Germany join baroque flutist Jeffrey
Cohan in Johann Sebastian Bach’s
cantata Ich habe genug and other works
The
church cantata Ich habe genug ("I am
content"), BWV 82 was composed in
Leipzig in 1727 for the feast
Purification of Mary and is one of the
most often performed and recorded of
Bach's sacred cantatas. In this
cantata, based on the Song of Simeon,
Bach projects a feeling of serene
contentedness with life and an
expression of the experience of body
and soul coming to rest and in
complete harmony beyond anything that
words alone can convey.
Jeffrey
Cohan,
renaissance
transverse
flutes
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni
Bassano (1585)
recorded
January 11,
2021
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