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CATHEDRAL OF
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
· 1115 W Riverside Avenue ·
(509) 358-4290
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes by Mike Tigas

Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes by Mike Tigas

ST. AUGUSTINE
CATHOLIC CHURCH
428 W 19th Ave, in Spokane·
(509) 747-4421

St. Augustine Catholic Church

Suggested Donation:
$20 or $25
(a free will offering - everyone is most welcome)
• 18 and under FREE •

SSEMF presents outstanding
early chamber music around the Salish Sea and in Washington thanks to your support.

Early Music Ammerica

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 ~
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Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes:

— JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH & DOMENICO SCARLATTI
· Irene Roldàn, harpsichord

· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
Irene Roldàn and Jeffrey interpret Bach's phenomenal music for flute and harpsichord alongside works by Domenico Scarlatti including works both for solo harpsichord and with flute.

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.

Irene Roldàn’s participation in these performances has been made possible with help from the Honorary Consulate of Spain in Seattle and from to the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), which seeks to promote Spanish culture through the inclusion of Spanish artists and creators residing in Spain in the programming of cultural events outside of Spain.

~ Previous concerts 2023-2025 ~

Sunday, May 18 at 2:30 PM:

— CONCERTI from the COURT of FREDERICK THE GREAT

Sacred Music Series, Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes

   · David Schrader, harpsichord
   · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
   · Elizabeth Phelps, baroque violin (Seattle)
   · Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin (Los Angeles)
   · Christine Moran, baroque viola (San Francisco)
   · Susie Napper, baroque cello (Montreal)

Please join us for a flute concerto composed by the king himself, who was an enthusiastic flutist and composer and performed almost nightly for concerts at his court, alongside concerti for both flute (A Major) and for harpsichord (D Major) by Frederick the Great’s court keyboardist Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, as well as the Suite in B Minor by his father Johann Sebastian Bach, whose visit in 1747 to Frederick the Great’s court is legendary. Susie Napper will provide commentary.

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.

Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes

• Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM •

✣ ✣ ✣ ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CANZONAS ✣ ✣ ✣

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:

✣ ✣ ✣ Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM in Colville ✣ ✣ ✣

~ 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.

✣ ✣ ✣ Friday, June 28 at 7:00 PM in Spokane ✣ ✣ ✣

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

✣ ✣ ✣ Sunday MAY 14, 2023 at 2:30 in SPOKANE ✣ ✣ ✣

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

~ updated June 21, 2025 ~
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baroque flute

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