Submitted by The Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
On Saturday, Jan. 18, 12:30 p.m., The Salish Sea Early Music Festival performs “The Cazone 2025” at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 780 Park Street in Friday Harbor. There is a suggested donation $20-$30 (or a free-will offering; pay as you wish); 18 and under are free.
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, D.C.
The 2025 San Juan Island Salish Sea Early Music Festival offers a diverse series of programs spanning three centuries (1525-1835) and featuring exciting artists new to SSEMF who come from Kyiv (Ukrainian harpsichordist Olena Zhukova), California (violinist Elisabeth Blumenstock), Switzerland (Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn), Montreal (viola da gambist Mélisande Corriveau), Baltimore (theorbo player William Simms) and Washington, D.C (viol virtuoso Tina Chancey), alongside favorite 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 (Tacoma), viola da gambists Caroline Nicolas (New York City) and Susie Napper (Montreal), and guitarist Oleg Timofeyev (Chicago).
The full 2025 schedule is as follows:
Saturday, Feb. 22: “The Chaconne with Les ES Voix Humaines
· 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 but extending from the early 17th century through Johann Sebastian Bach.
Saturday, March 8: — “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.
Saturday, April 5: — “European Tour 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.
Saturday, May 3: — “The Musuqye De La Chambre of Louis XIV”
· Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba
· William Simms, theorbo & baroque guitar
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque and renaissance flutes
The 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 guests from New York and Baltimore.
Saturday, May 24: — “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 CPE Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, and the king himself.
Saturday, June 7: — “Beetoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar”
· Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola
· Oleg TImofeyev, 7-string guitar (Moscow, 1820)
· Jeffrey Cohan, 8-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.
Saturday, July 12: — “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.
For more information visit www.salishseafestival.org/sanjuan.
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