Salish Sea Early Music Festival Returns to Brickworks!
Please join us for our opening 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival program on San Juan Island at Brickworks. Please see the attached flyer which provides dates for all eight festival programs with outstanding specialists performing early music on period instruments coming from Germany, Switzerland, Montreal and all around the United States and the Northwest. We’ll provide an updated schedule as all dates are confirmed.
On Saturday evening, January 20 at 7:00 PM at Brickworks, lutenist and guitarist Michael Freimuth from Kiel in Northern Germany joins Jeffrey Cohan for a musical tour of three centuries and five distinct instruments: 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.
This program offers an unusual and expansive journey through the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and music for guitar, lute and flute, 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. 16th century composers Diego Ortiz, William Byrd, Giovanni Bassano and Girolamo Dalla Casa; 17th-century composers Giovanni Paulo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde and Giovanni Battista Buonamenti; and 18th-century composers Arcangelo Corelli and André Chéron will be represented on the program.
Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free. All are most welcome regardless of donation.
2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival on San Juan Island at Brickworks:
— Saturday, January 20 at 7:00 PM:
• Renaissance & Baroque (1580-1730) • with Michael Freimuth, theorbo (Keil, Germany) and Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance and baroque flutes
— Saturday, February 17 at 7:00 PM:
• Simphonie Nouvelle: France & Bach • with Stephen Stubbs on baroque guitar, Susie Napper (Montreal) on viola da gamba and Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
— Sunday afternoon, February 25 (time to be confirmed):
• Telemann Paris Quartets • David Greenberg, baroque violin, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, viola da gambist Susie Napper & baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan
— Late March (date to be confirmed):
• Haydn & Beyond • Classical chamber music with Lindsey Strand-Polyak on both violin and viola, cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer and Jeffrey Cohan, 8-keyed flute
— Saturday, April 6 at 7:00 PM:
• Cantata & Lieder • soprano Arwyn Myers, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan
— Early May (date to be confirmed):
• Psalms (1620) & Irish (1720) & Folksong (1820) • Oleg Timofeyev on renaissance lute and 7-string guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on renaissance, baoque and 8-keyed flutes
— Saturday, May 25 at 7:00 PM: • Baroque Concerti • harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller, violinist Carrie Krause, violinist Elisabeth Phelps, violist Victoria Gunn, cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer & Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute
— Early July (date to be confirmed): • Johann Sebastian Bach • harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷
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Donate: https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate.html
Donations may be mailed to:
Salish Sea Early Music Festival
13113 S Wildwood Lane
Anacortes, WA 98221
The 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.
