Musica Alta Ripa Goes Baroque features violinist Anne Röhrig and harpsichordist Bernward Lohr, two internationally renowned musicians who come from Hannover in Germany to join flutist Jeffrey Cohan for a program of baroque chamber music on Saturday, March 11 at 6:00 PM at Grace Episcopal Church at 70 Sunset Lane off of Fisherman Bay Road on Lopez Island.
This concert will also take place at Brickworks on San Juan Island at 12:30 p.m. the same early afternoon, Saturday, March 11; and at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound on Wednesday, March 8 at 6 p.m.
Lohr is director of Hanover’s Musica Alta Ripa, one of Germany’s most active period instrument ensembles. Baroque violinist Röhrig leads the Hannoversche Hofkapelle, another of Europe’s premier baroque orchestras. With baroque flutist Cohan they will present 18th-century French, Italian and German trio sonatas and solos by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Archangelo Corelli, Andre Chéron, Louis-Antoine Dornel, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Christian Bach.