Salish Sea Early Music Festival holds final concert of the season

Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival

The final 2017 Salish Sea Early Music Festival program will be at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 10 at Brickworks at 150 Nichols St. in Friday Harbor.

“Giulianiad,” features works by Mauro Giuliani, with John Schneiderman of Los Angeles on the early 19th-century guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820.

The Giulianiad was a journal for guitarists published in London a few years after Giuliani’s death. Giuliani was a guitar virtuoso and his music is rarely heard on the instruments he was familiar with when he wrote these songs. These instruments are sweeter, more intimate, and expressively nuanced than their modern equivalents.

Giuliani composed the “cream” of the flute and guitar duo repertoire from Beethoven’s time, which includes duos, serenades, divertimenti, marches, dances, and arrangements of Opera melodies, and other popular tunes of his day.

Suggested donations for the concert are $15 or $20; 18 and under free. For more information on the Salish Sea Music Festival, visit www.salishseafestival.org/sanjuan.

“Giulianiad” schedule:

•1 p.m., Saturday, June 10, Grace Church, 70 Sunset Lane, Lopez, 468-3477

• 7 p.m., Saturday, June 10, Brickworks,150 Nichols Street, San Juan Island

• 1 p.m., Sunday, June 11, Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound, 376-6683