Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival
Two internationally renowned early music soloists will come from Germany and Montreal to perform some of the most famous French Baroque repertoire from the reign of Louis XIV and XV in Friday Harbor in Immortal French Baroque: Viola da Gamba and Friends on Monday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. at Brickworks at 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor. Admission is a suggested donation of $15, $20 or $25 and ages 18 and under are free.
Susie Napper from Montreal is one of the most highly regarded interpreter of music for the viola da gamba in the United States and Canada. She currently teaches in Montreal and in Copenhagen. Harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor teaches at the Music Conservatory in Lübeck, Germany. He recently concertized in Indonesia and was an organist at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Lübeck, one of the most coveted positions for organists in the world, formerly held by Buxtehude and visited by Bach in 1705.
Napper and Schnoor will be joined by artistic director and flutist Jeffrey Cohan for a program to include a prélude for solo viola da gamba by Sainte-Colombe; the suite in D minor for solo harpsichord by François Couperin; Jacques Hotteterre’s Suite in G major for flute with harpsichord and viola da gamba; Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Troisième Concert from Pièces de Clavecin en Concert; Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Trios de la Chambre; the Tombeau pour M. De Lully for viola da gamba and harpsichord by Marin Marais; and Pieces en Trio by Marin Marais.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival, now in its seventh year, presents chamber music from the Renaissance through the time of Beethoven on period instruments. The festival has presented countless first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works. Renaissance, baroque and Beethoven-era chamber music on period instruments is featured with special guests from Europe and around the United States and Canada. Additional information is available at www.salishseafestival.org/sanjuan.
The San Juan Islands schedule for Immortal French Baroque:
1 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5, Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, 107 Enchanted Forest Road, Eastsound, Orcas, 378-6632
7 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5, Grace Church, 70 Sunset Lane, Lopez, 468-3477
For more information, visit www.salishseafestival.org/sanjuan or contact Jeffrey Cohan at 445-3164, cohanjeffrey@aol.com.
