EDITOR’S NOTE: The date has been corrected.
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.
Sunday’s “Blow, blow blow — Winds of the Baroque” will usher forth the enlightened perspectives of German, French and Italian composers Antonio Vivaldi, Joseph Bodin de Boismorter, Johann Joachim Quantz and Georg Philipp Telemann in a performance of rarely heard chamber music from the 18th century for a plethora of winds — flutes, recorder and oboe — with cello and harpsichord.
All are welcome but a free will offering donation of $15, $20 or $25 is asked.
Performers in this concert will include Sand Dalton on baroque oboe and flute, Vicki Boeckman on recorder, Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute, Caroline Nicolas on baroque cello and Jonathan Oddie on harpsichord.
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:
• 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 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/port townsend.
