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Salish
Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be
an affiliate organization of Early Music
America, which develops, strengthens,
and celebrates early music and
historically informed performance in
North America.
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With special thanks
✣ to
Faith Lutheran Church
2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Seattle ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries in
Seattle and around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
collaboration with Faith Lutheran Church ~
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✣Sunday,
JULY 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM in
Seattle ✣
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Johann
Sebastian
BACH
Faythe
Vollrath
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Harpsichordist
Faythe Vollrath from Sacramento,
CA will join baroque flutist
Jeffrey Cohan for this
mostly-Bach extravaganza in the
eighth and final 2024 Salish Sea
Early Music Festival performance
demonstrating the unparalleled
mystery and emotional intensity
of Bach’s compositional
abilities, featuring
transcriptions of his works
originally for viola da gamba
and another for violin, both
with obbligato (or fully
written-out) harpsichord in
addition to sonatas originally
written for flute by Bach both
with continuo (a bass line with
numbers denoting harmonies from
which the harpsichordist
improvises) and with obbligato
harpsichord. Faythe Vollrath
will play variations for solo
harpsichord by Johann Adam
Reinken (1643-1722) on the
popular German folk tune
“Schweiget mir von Weibernehmen”
(‘shush, no more talk about
womanizing”). Reinken was
greatly admired by Bach, who
made arrangements of several of
his works.
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Earlier concerts this season
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✣Thursday,
JANUARY 25 at 7:30 PM in SEATTLE ✣
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THREE
CENTURIES:
GUITAR,
THEORBO & FLUTE
Michael
Freimuth
~
renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th
Century
Diego
Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni
Bassano
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
17th
Century
Giovanni
Paulo Cima
Girolamo
Frescobaldi
Giovanni
Battista Fontana
Giovanni
Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
18th
Century
Arcangelo
Corelli
• André Chéron
Robert
de Visée
Join
us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and an unusual and
expansive journey through the music for
guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, including elaborate
jazzed-up versions of well known songs
of the time, published by the incredible
wind instrument virtuosi of the late
16th century, along with canzonas,
sonatas and suites from Spain, Italy,
England and France. The instruments
include the renaissance guitar, which is
considerably smaller and more
mellow-toned than its modern descendant,
theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute),
the one-piece cylindrical renaissance
flute along with the bass renaissance
flute, and the one-keyed baroque flute.
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✣Thursday,
February 15, 2024 at 7:30
pm in Seattle ✣
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SIMPHONIE
NOUVELLE:
LOUIS
XIV & J.S. BACH
Stephen
Stubbs
~ baroque
guitar ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
guitarists
Diego
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) Robert
De Visée (c.1655-1733) viola
da gambists
Monsieur
de Sainte Colombe
(c.1640-c.1700) Marin
Marais
(1656-1728) Jacques
Morel (c.1680-c.1740) flutist
Michel
de la Barre (c.1675-1745) composers
Élisabeth
Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
(1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733) Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Louis
XIV gathered the finest musicians
of France at his court in
Versailles and this program
features many of the late 17th and
early 18th-century guitarists,
viola da gambists, flutists and
other composers associated with
his illustrious musical
establishment, alongside the
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 of
Johann Sebastian Bach.
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✣Thursday,
February 29 at 7:30 pm
in Seattle ✣
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GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Quadri
a violino, flauto
traversiere, viola da gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento
(1730):
Concerto
II in D Major
Sonata
II in G Minor
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites
(1738):
Premier
Quatuor in D Major 4e.
Quatuor in B Minor
Having been invited by
several of the most
prominent French
musicians to visit
Paris, Telemann composed
and published the first
set of his remarkable
"Paris Quartets" in
1730, and left Hamburg
for Paris seven years
later, where all 12 of
the quartets were
performed, almost surely
with Teleman himself on
the harpsichord. The
second set of quartets
was published in Paris
during this visit in
1738. Two years later
Telemann related the
following:
"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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✣Thursday,
March 21, 2024 at
7:30 PM in
Seattle ✣
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✣
FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed
flute ~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
As the most
celebrated
composer in all
of Europe for
much of his
career, Franz
Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809) was
Mozart’s mentor
and friend as
well as
Beethoven’s
tutor. The
program will
include three
trios for flute,
violin and cello
by Haydn,
selections from
a 1795
arrangement for
these
instruments of
Mozart’s opera
“The Magic
Flute”, and a
trio by Franz
Anton
Hoffmeister, a
friend of Haydn,
Mozart and
Beethoven who
published music
by all three.
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✣
✣Thursday,
April 11, 2024 at
Faith Lutheran
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✣
✣ Myers">
SPRINGTIME
BAROQUE:
AIRS for SPRING
Arwen
Myers
~
soprano
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque
flute ~
Johann
Sebastin Bach
Seele,
deine Spätzereien
(from
the Easter Oratorio)
Louis-Nicolas
Clérambault
Orphée
(Cantata)
George
Frideric Handel
Singe,
Seele & Flammende
Rose
(from
9 German Arias)
Toussaint
Bordet
Recueil
D'Airs Avec
Accompagnement de Flute
(selections)
Louis Couperin
Les
Fauvétes Plaintives
& La
Linote-éfarouchée
(harpsichord
solo)
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✣
✣Thursday,
May 9, 2024 at
7:30 PM at
Faith
Lutheran
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RENAISSANCE
PSALMS,
IRISH
BAROQUE &
FOLK
Oleg
TImofeyev
renaissance
lute, English
guitar
&
7-string guitar
(1820)
Jeffrey Cohan
renaissance
& baroque
flutes
&
8-keyed flute
(1820)
17th
Century
Nicolas
Vallet
Jacob
Van Eyck
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
18th
Century
James
Oswald
Francesco
Barsanti
Turlough
O'Carolan
19th
Century
Mauro
Giuliani
Louis
Drouet
Charles
Nicholson
This
program, in
three parts,
opens with
settings of
Psalms and
variations on
folk melodies
by early
17th-century
flutist Jacob
Van Eyck,
lutenist
Nicolas Vallet
and others
performed on renaissance
descant, tenor
and bass
transverse
flutes
and lute.
Then, baroque
flute and the
rare
but once quite
popular
wire-strung
English Guitar
of the 18th
century is to
be heard
performing the
folk tunes of
Scotland and
Ireland as
interpreted
and varied by
the early
18th-century
composers
Francesco
Barsanti,
Turlough
O'Carolan,
James Oswald
and others.
Finally, an
Eastern
European
7-string
guitar made in
1820 in Russia
alongside an
eight-keyed
flute made in
London in the
same year
bring to life
variations on
popular tunes
by Mauro
Giuliani,
Louis Drouet,
Charles
Nicholson and
other virtuoso
flutists and
guitarists of
Beethoven’s
day.
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✣
✣Thursday,
May 23, 2024
at 7:30 PM in
Seattle
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BAROQUE
CONCERTI
Carrie
Krause
~
baroque
violin ~
Jonathan
Oddie
~
harpsichord ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~ Elizabeth
Phelps & Courtney
Kuroda
~
baroque
violin
~
Victoria
Gunn
~
baroque
viola
~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello
~
JACQUES
AUBERT
Concerto
in D Major,
Opus 26 No. 3
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Flute
Concerto "La
Notte", Opus
10 No. 2
CARL
PHILIPP
EMANUEL BACH
Flute
Concerti in D
Minor, Wq 22a
JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH Triple
Concerto in A
Minor for
Harpsichord,
Violin and
Flute, BWV
1044
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
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