PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present “Louis XIV’s Musicians” at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The Baroque music concert will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.
Admission is by a suggested donation of $20 to $30 per person.
The performers include Caroline Nicolas of New York, who will play the viola da gambist, Baltimore-based baroque guitarist William Simms and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.
The program includes music by composers who frequently played at the court of Louis XIV.
Composers include Robert De Visée, the king’s guitar instructor, and his Italian predecessor Francesco Corbetta; Marin Marais, a favored viola da gambist, and his teacher Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe; and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, a harpsichordist and one of the few famous female musicians of her time.
The program also will include a solo for viola da gamba by Nicolas, a guitar solo by Simms, and an early French solo written for the transverse flute by André Danican Philidor L’Aisné, the king’s court music librarian.
Future performances include “Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great,” May 25; “Beethoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar,” June 8; and “Johann Sebastian Bach,” July 13.
For more information, visit see www.salishsea festival.org/porttownsend.
