PORT TOWNSEND — The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will return to Port Townsend with a series of Sunday afternoon Baroque music concerts from Jan. 19 through July 13.
The concerts will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.
Each program also will be presented at venues in Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma, Lopez Island, Orcas Island, San Juan Island, Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Skagit Valley, Spokane, Colville, Leavenworth and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The concert series will open Jan. 19 with “The Canzona 2025” featuring Vicki Boeckman, renaissance recorders, Tina Chancey, tenor viol, Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance transverse flutes, and Anna Marsh, dulcian, which is a renaissance bassoon.
The second program, “The Chaconne with Les Voix Humaines,” is planned for Feb. 23 and will feature the Montreal-based Les Voix Humaines duo of Susie Napper on viola da gamba and treble viol and Mélisande Corriveau on viola da gamba and pardessus de viol along with harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and Jeffrey Cohan playing baroque and renaissance flutes.
The “Trio Sonata” is planned for March 9 and will feature harpsichordist Bernward Lohr and violinist Anne Röhrig of the Hannover, Germany-based Musica Alta Ripa along with Susie Napper on the viola da gamba and Jeffrey Cohan on the baroque flute.
The program will feature sonatas Georg Philipp Telemann, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain and Jean Baptiste Quentin le jeune (the younger, in French.)
Ukrainian harpsichordist Olena Zhukova will team up with Cohan, a flutist and the festival’s musical director, on April 6 to present “European Tour 1690-1790,” an excursion through a century of transformation from the baroque to the classical periods, through the perspective of composers for harpsichord and flute from France, Italy, Scotland, Germany and Ukraine.
On May 4, the festival will present “The Musique de la Chambre of Louis XIV” featuring Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba, William Simms, theorbo and baroque guitar, and Jeffrey Cohan, baroque and renaissance flutes.
The program will feature works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais and Jacques Hotteterre.
“Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great,” which will be presented May 25, features David Schrader, harpsichord, Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute, Elizabeth Phelps, baroque violin;, Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin, and Lindsey Strand-Polyak, baroque viola.
The program is a new assortment of concerti for harpsichord and flute from the illustrious members of the musical establishment of flutist Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, and includes works by C.P.E. Bach and Johann Joachim Quantz as well as works by the king.
“Beethoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar,” planned for June 8, will feature Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola, Oleg TImofeyev, seven-string guitar, and Jeffrey Cohan, eight-keyed flute.
The festival will conclude July 13 with “Johann Sebastian Bach” featuring Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn and Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute.
For more information or for updated schedules, visit www.salishseafestival.org.
