VANCOUVER
ST.
MARY'S KERRISDALE
2490 West 37th Avenue
· Vancouver
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www.stmaryskerrisdale.ca
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St. Mary's Kerrisdale
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Presented in collaboration with
St Mary's Kerrisdale Church
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2025
Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Vancouver
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Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
in Vancouver and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with St. Mary's Kerrisdale ~
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All concerts at 7:00 PM
★ download 2026 flyer here
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Tuesday,
January 20, 2025 at 7:00
PM:
— A
LITTLE CONCERT FOR LOUIS XIV
· Ethan Lin,
baroque violin
· Vicki Gunn,
baroque viola
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque flute
· Anna Marsh,
baroque bassoon
André
Danican Philidor l'ainé, the
aging Louis XIV's long-time music
librarian, prepared the
king's favorite operas and
ballets alongside chamber music
by Lully and Philidor himself
for little evening concerts given
before his majesty, all reduced for
a smaller number of musicians who
presented these grand works in the
intimate setting greatly preferred
during this period by the king, at
least a quarter of a century after
the death of the composer of most of
these works, Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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Tuesday,
February 17, 2025 at 7:00
PM:
— The
ITALIAN and FRENCH PERSPECTIVE
· Susie Napper
(Montreal), viola da gamba
· Olena Zhukova
(Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord
· Mélisande
Corriveau (Montreal),
treble viol
· Jeffrey Cohan,
renaissance & baroque flutes
Olena Zhukova from Kyiv and Les
Voix humaines, the widely
celebrated prize-winning duo of
viols from Montreal join us for
a program illuminating a
radically evolving musical
perspective through the 17th
century.
LISTEN:
Les Voix Humaines plays
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 Friday,
February 27, 2025 at 7:00
PM:
— 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
Ukraine, France,
Italy, Scotland, Germany and Austria
with music by Berezofzkyj,
Boismortier, Corelli, Oswald, Mozart
and Bach.
Olena Zhukova of Kyiv,
Ukraine, a leading
harpsichordist and a tireless
ambassador for
early music in her country
and abroad,
has performed since the
outbreak of full-scale war in
prominent performances
sponsored by distinguished
institutions all around
Ukraine, Poland, Austria,
France, Switzerland and Czech
Republic for international
festivals and in collaboration
with major artists, orchestras
and opera productions. Ms.
Zhukova is also an
accomplished scholar who
published and presented more
than 20 articles, while
devoting herself to her
harpsichord class and chamber
music students as Associate
Professor at both the National
Music Academy of Ukraine
and the Gliére Academy of
Music (Kiev), where she
founded the harpsichord class.
Recent engagements during the
past few months alone include
Bach's Goldberg Variations in
the prestigious Organ Hall
in Lviv, Ukraine; the first
major classical performance
for the public in Chernihiv,
Ukraine since
the outbreak of war entitled French
Music in Times of War
and sponsored by the
Ambassador of France, in a
newly rebuilt performance hall
in Chernihiv that had
previously been extensively
damaged by a Russian strike at
the beginning of the conflict;
and an involved program,
consisting exclusively of new
music for harpsichord composed
in part for
her by today's Ukrainian
composers, for Columbia
University’s Global Center
in Paris and its Institute
for Ideas and Imagination.
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Tuesday,
March
24, 2025
at 7:00
PM:
—FOLK
SONG FROM THREE CENTURIES II
Renaissance
Psalms, Scottish Baroque &
Folk
· Oleg Timofeyev,
renaissance lute, English guitar
& 7-string guitar (1820)
· Jeffrey Cohan,
renaissance, baroque &
8-keyed flutes (London, 1820)
Innovative
renditions of renaissance
Psalms (~1620), Irish and
Scottish baroque (~1720) and
folk music as interpreted during
Beethoven's lifetime (~1820)
outlines this 100% new program
continuing Oleg and Jeffrey's
exploration of settings from
three centuries of popular and
folk music, performed on 5
transverse flutes and three
plucked instruments.
Two experiments in particular
are worth of mention. In the
early 17th century Flutist Jacob
Van Eyck and lutenist Nicolas
Vallet both wrote settings of
many of the Psalm tunes from the
Geneva Psalter of the mid-16th
century. Timofreyev and Cohan
juxtapose these in a manner that
sheds new light on early
17th-century improvisational
practice.
James Oswald's "Airs for the
Seasons" consists of four
collections, one for each
season, of about 24 airs or
multi-movement suites, each
dedicated to a particular flower
of the season and radiating the
charming character of the folk
melodies of Oswald's native
Scotland. The wire strung
English guitar, so rarely to be
heard today, emerged around this
time as one of the most
prominent instruments of home
life in England, and Oswald's
airs beautifully suit Oleg's
instrument made in 1767
alongside the one-keyed baroque
flute.
LISTEN:
Oleg Timofeyev
and Jeffrey Cohan play Drouet's
God Save the Queen on
SoundCloud:
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Friday,
April
24, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
—TELEMANN
PARIS QUARTETS
· David Greenberg,
baroque violin
· Susie
Napper, viola da
gamba
· Elisabeth
Wright,
harpsichord
· Jeffrey
Cohan, baroque
flute
Six
quatuors
(1730):
Concerto
1 in G
Sonata
1 in A
Suite
1 in e
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites
(1738):
2e.
Quatuor in A Minor
Telemann composed his 12
brilliant “Paris Quartets”
in Hamburg and then Paris in
response to a request in
1730 from the most famous
Parisian flute, violin and
cello virtuosi which
resulted in his most
significant journey away
from home during his
lifetime. This year we
present four new quartets,
to include a selection from
each of his four sets of
quartets in sonata, suite
and concerto format.
"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."
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Tueday,
May
12, 2026
at 7:00
PM:
—BACH
& HANDEL
·
Maike Albrecht,
soprano
· Hans-Jürgen
Schnoor,
harpsichord
·
Susie Napper
(Montreal), viola da gamba
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
Vocal masterworks to be
presented include 6 of
Handel's 9 exquisite
German Arias,
selected arias from cantatas
by Bach, his Italian
Concerto for solo
harpsichord, and flute
sonata by Handel and Bach's
cantata Ich habe genug.
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 Tuesday,
June
9, 2025
at 7:00
PM:
—JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
· Irene
Roldàn, harpsichord
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
Award-winning
harpsichordist Irene Roldán
(www.ireneroldan.com)
was born in southern Spain in 1997.
Described by the press as one of the
most prominent Spanish
harpsichordists on the international
scene (ABC Sevilla), Irene currently
lives and works in Basel,
Switzerland. She gained
international recognition in 2021,
when she won first prize, never
previously awarded in this
competition, as well as the audience
prize at the III. International
Harpsichord Competition «Città di
Milano». In the same year, her
ensemble Flor Galante secured the
first prize at the IV. International
Bach Competition in Berlin. One year
later, Irene was honored with the
prestigious Bach Prize and an
additional special award at the
XXXIII. International Bach
Competition held in Leipzig,
Germany.
Irene
Roldàn’s
participation
in these
performances
has been made
possible with
help from the
Honorary
Consulate of
Spain in
Seattle and
from to the
Programme for
the
Internationalisation
of Spanish
Culture (PICE)
of Acción
Cultural
Española
(AC/E), which
seeks to
promote
Spanish
culture
through the
inclusion of
Spanish
artists and
creators
residing in
Spain in the
programming of
cultural
events outside
of Spain.
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Thursday,
June
25, 2025
at 7:00 PM:
—PARDESSUS DE
VIOLE, FLUTE & GUITAR
· Annalisa
Pappano, pardessus
de viol and treble viol
· William Simms,
baroque guitar and theorbo
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
The
French royal court musical
establishment generated a vast amount
of music, to be represented by works
of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais,
Jacques Hotteterre and others.
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★ ★
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In 1676, Thomas
Mace expresses our musical aspirations: "I have
been more Sensibly, Fervently, and Zealously
Captivated, and drawn into Divine Raptures, and
Contemplations, by Those Unexpressible
Rhetorical, Uncontroulable Perswasions, and
Instructions of Musicks Divine Language."
Sloane
wrote in about 1794 that "There must be an Order
and just Proportion, Intricacy with Simplicity
in the Component parts, Variety in the Mass, and
Light and Shadow in the whole, so as to produce
the varied sensations of gaiety and melancholy,
of wildness and even surprise and wonder…"
As Thomas Mace says in 1676: "…When we come to
be Masters… we can command all manner of Time,
at our own Pleasures; we Then take Liberty for
Humour and good Adornment-sake, to Break Time;
sometimes Faster, sometimes Slower, as we
perceive, the Nature of the Thing Requires,
which…adds much Grace and Luster to the
Performance."
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