Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival

Performances occur at Grace Episcopal Church, 70 Sunset Lane on Lopez Island, on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m.

Suggested donation: $20-$30 (free-will donation; all welcome).

Jan. 18: The Canzona 2025

· Vicki Boeckman, Renaissance recorders.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance transverse flutes.

· Anna Marsh, dulcian (Renaissance bassoon).

The “Canzonettes” return after two years with an entirely new program focusing on the birth of the Canzona inspired by early 16th­-century chansons and evolving into the early 17th­-century Baroque sonata. Featuring special guest Renaissance specialist and innovative improviser Tina Chancey from Hesperus in Washington, D.C.

Feb. 22: The Chaconne with Les Voix Humaines

· Susie Napper, viola da gamba and treble viol.

· Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba and pardessus de viol.

· Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque and Renaissance flutes.

Les Voix Humaines, the widely celebrated prize­winning duo of viols from Montreal, joins us for a program centering on the chaconne but extending from the early 17th century through Johann Sebastian Bach.

March 8: The Trio Sonata

· Bernward Lohr, harpsichord.

· Anne Röhrig, violin.

· Susie Napper, viola da gamba.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque flute.

Trio sonata masterpieces by Georg Philipp Telemann, Louis­Gabriel Guillemain and Jean Baptiste Quentin le jeune with our Musica Alta Ripa friends from Hannover.

April 5: European tour 1690­1790

· Olena Zhukova, harpsichord.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque flute.

An excursion through a century of transformation and diversity by decade and culture within the Baroque and classical periods, through the perspective of composers for harpsichord and flute from France, Italy, Scotland, Germany and Ukraine.

May 3: The Musique De La Chambre of Louis XIV

· Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba.

· William Simms, theorbo and Baroque guitar.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque and Renaissance flutes.

The king’s court musical establishment is to be represented by Jean­Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jacques Hotteterre, etc., including music designated for the king’s bedtime, evening concerts and banquets, with guests from New York and Baltimore.

May 24: Concerti from the Court of Frederick The Great

· David Schrader, harpsichord.

· Jeffrey Cohan, Baroque flute.

· Elizabeth Phelps, Baroque violin.

· Courtney Kuroda, Baroque violin.

· Lindsey Strand­Polyak, Baroque viola.

A completely new assortment of concerti for harpsichord and flute from the illustrious members of the musical establishment of flutist Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, including CPE Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz and the king himself.

June 7: Beethoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar

· Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola.

· Oleg TImofeyev, 7­-string guitar (Moscow, 1820).

· Jeffrey Cohan, 8­-keyed flute (London, 1820).

Repertoire abounds for this popular ensemble during Beethoven’s lifetime of guitar, viola and flute, with outstanding violinist and violist Elizabeth Blumenstock.

July 12: Johann Sebastian Bach

· Irene Roldàn, harpsichord.

· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.

Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn, from Basel, and Cohan interpret Bach’s phenomenal music for flute and harpsichord.