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ST. MARY'S KERRISDALE
2490 West 37th Avenue
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www.stmaryskerrisdale.ca

St. Marys Kerrisdale

St. Mary's Kerrisdale

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• 18 and under FREE •
All concerts at 7:00 PM

St. Marys windows

Stained glass at St. Mary's

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.

All donations through EMA are fully tax-deductible. Please be sure to designate your gift for "EMA Affiliate Organization" and specify that it is for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. Your gift may be matched by your employer.

✣ Presented in part ✣
by St Mary's Kerrisdale Church

2025 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Vancouver
~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries in Vancouver and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in collaboration with St. Mary's Kerrisdale ~

~ Please check back soon for specific Vancouver 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.

~ Earlier concerts this past 2024 season ~

✣ ✣ ✣ FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2024 at 7 PM in VANCOUVER ✣ ✣ ✣

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.

✣ ✣ ✣ Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7:00 pm in Vancouver ✣ ✣ ✣

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.

✣ ✣ ✣ Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 7:00 pm in Vancouver ✣ ✣ ✣ Renaissance flute and lute

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."

(the following concert is not at St. Mary's)
✣ ✣ ✣ Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 7:00 pm ✣ ✣ ✣

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CANZONAS

at the Westacres Music Room

23575 - 124 Avenue in Maple Ridge

Vicki Boeckman ~ renaissance recorders

Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute

Stephen Creswell ~ viola

Anna Marsh ~ renaissance bassoon (dulcian)

The Westacres Music Room and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival 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.

✣ ✣ ✣ Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM at St. Mary's ✣ ✣ ✣ Arwen Myers

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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)

Francois Couperin

Les Fauvétes Plaintives & La Linote-éfarouchée

(harpsichord solo)

✣ ✣ ✣ Friday, May 10, 2024 at 7:00 PM at St. Mary's ✣ ✣ ✣

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.

~ updated November 5, 2024 ~
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