Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
The Salish Sea Music Festival announces its tentative 2024 schedule. Please also see www.salishseafestival.org for more information.
Our 2025 festival offers a diverse series of programs spanning three centuries (1525 through 1835) and featuring new artists who will come from Kyiv, California, Switzerland, Montreal, Baltimore and Washington, DC, including Ukrainian harpsichordist Olena Zhukova, violinist Elisabeth Blumenstock, Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn, viola da gambist Mélisande Corriveau, theorbo player William Simms and viol virtuoso Tina Chancey. Fabulous artists and familiar old friends include harpsichordists Elisabeth Wright (Bloomington), Bernward Lohr (Hannover) and David Schrader (Chicago); recorder player Vicki Boeckman (Seattle); violist Lindsey Strand Polyak (Whidbey Island); violinists Anne Roehrig (Hannover), Elizabeth Phelps (Seattle) and Courtney Kurroda (Los Angeles); bassoonist Anna Marsh; viola da gambists Susie Napper (Montreal) and Caroline Nicolas (New York City); and guitarist Oleg Timofeyev (Chicago).
Our tentative schedule follows without specific dates as of yet, which will be announced very soon. We are so excited to share this music with you!
Jan. 17-25: The Canzona 2025
· Vicki Boeckman, renaissance recorders
· Tina Chancey, tenor viol
· Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance transverse flutes
· Anna Marsh, dulcian (renaissance bassoon)
The “Canzonettes” return after two years with an entirely new program focusing on the birth of the Canzona inspired by early 16th-century chansons and evolving into the early 17th-century Baroque sonata. Featuring special guest renaissance specialist and innovative improviser Tina Chancey from Hesperus in Washington, DC.
Feb. 21-March 1: The Chaconne wiht Les Voix Humaines
· Susie Napper, viola da gamba and treble viol
· Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba and 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 but extending from the early 17th century through Johann Sebastian Bach.
March 7-13: The Trio Sonata
· Bernward Lohr, harpsichord
· Anne Röhrig, violin
· Susie Napper, viola da gamba
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
Trio sonata masterpieces by Georg Philipp Telemann, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain and Jean Baptiste Quentin le jeune with our Musica Alta Ripa friends from Hannover.
March 29-31: Harpsichord Mystery
· Olena Zhukova, solo 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).
April 2-12: European Tour circa 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 France, Italy, Scotland, Germany and Ukraine.
May 1-8: The Musique De La Chambre of Louis XIV
· Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba
· William Simms, theorbo and Baroque guitar
· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque and Renaissance flutes
The King’s Court musical establishment is to be represented by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jacques Hotteterre, etc., including music designated for the king’s bedtime, evening concerts and banquets, with guests from New York and Baltimore.
May 16-26: Concerti from 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 CPE Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz and the king himself.
June 4-11: Beethoven’s Flute Viola and Guitar
· Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola
· Oleg TImofeyev, seven-string guitar (Moscow, 1820)
· Jeffrey Cohan, eight-keyed flute (London, 1820)
Repertoire abounds for this popular ensemble during Beethoven’s lifetime of guitar, viola and flute, with outstanding violinist and violist Elizabeth Blumenstock.
July 9-11: The 18th Century Harpsichord in Spain
· Irene Roldàn, solo 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 12-20: 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.
