PORT TOWNSEND — The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will continue its season at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The concert will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St.
All are welcome; a free will offering donation of $15, $20 or $25 is asked.
World-renowned early music specialists viola da gambist Susie Napper from Montreal and harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright from Bloomington, Ind., will join baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in Port Townsend in Baroque Trio JEST, presented by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival in a program of music by French baroque composers including François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Marin Marais.
Napper grew up in London and studied at the Juilliard School in New York and the Paris Conservatoire. She co-founded and directed the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, has been principal cellist with Stradivaria in France, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal and Les Boréades in Montreal and the Trinity Consort of Portland.
Her concert tours have taken her as far afield as China, Japan, New Zealand, India and the Middle East, as well as most European countries.
Wright has appeared as soloist with Tafelmusik, Lyra, Seattle, Portland and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras; she has been broadcast on four continents and recorded for Classic Masters, Milan-Jade, Focus, Arion, Arts Music, Centaur and Música Ficta Recordings.
Professor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Wright is in frequent demand for master classes and seminars, and is noted for her expertise in the art of basso continuo improvisation.
Following graduate studies with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, she has maintained a distinguished career performing for many of the major early music festivals in North and South America and Europe.
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival, has won the prestigious awards for performers of early music on period instruments in Boston and Brugges, Belgium and has performed in 25 countries.
Future concerts in this Salish Sea Early Music Festival season are:
• May 26 — Bach’s Triple Concerto: Carrie Krause (baroque violin), Courtney Kuroda (baroque violin), Steven Creswell (baroque viola), Caroline Nicolas (baroque cello) and Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord) will perform.
• June 9 — Early 17th century canzonas: transitional late Renaissance/early baroque chamber music with Anna Marsh(dulcian or renaissance bassoon), Shulamit Kleinerman (Renaissance violin), John Lenti (theorbo and baroque guitar) and Cohan (Renaissance transverse flute).
• June 23 — Late 18th century quartets: Oddie (harpsichord), Creswell (violin and viola), Nicolas (cello) and Cohan (one-keyed flute) perform little-heard quartets by J.C. Bach, Joseph Haydn, C.P.E. Bach and others.
Additional information is available at www. salishsea festival.org/porttownsend.
