PORT TOWNSEND — The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will continue its season at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St.
Admission is by suggested donation of $15, $20 or $25 as a free will offering; those younger than 18 will be admitted free.
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, artistic director of the festival, and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor of Lubeck, Germany, will perform sonatas for flute and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Schnoor is professor at the Conservatory of Music in Lubeck and was formerly the organist at the St. Marien Kirche, to which Bach walked for three days to hear Dietrich Buxtehude.
He has performed the Goldberg Variations 120 times, perhaps more than any other living harpsichordist.
Cohan has worked with Schnoor for more than three decades, he said.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival features period instrument specialists from North America and Europe in chamber music from the Renaissance through the time of Beethoven.
The festival is affiliated with Early Music America, which celebrates early music and its performance in North America. The festival has presented many first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works.
Future concerts in this Salish Sea Early Music Festival season are:
• April 28 — Baroque Winds: chamber music for recorder, oboe, bassoon and flute with Vicki Boekman (recorder), Sand Dalton (oboe), Anna Marsh (bassoon), Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) and Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord).
• May 5 — JEST: an oldies but goodies program of 18th century masterworks by Bach, Rameau and others with the many-decades-seasoned Jeffrey-Elisabeth-Susie Trio, featuring Susie Napper (viola da gamba), Elisabeth Wright (harpsichord) and Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute).
• May 26 — Bach’s Triple Concerto: Carrie Krause (baroque violin), Courtney Kuroda (baroque violin), Steven Crewell (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 Jeffrey Cohan (Renaissance transverse flute).
• June 23 — Late 18th century quartets: Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord), Stephen Creswell (violin and viola), Caroline Nicolas (cello) and Jeffrey 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.salish sea festival.org/port townsend.
