13th annual Yuletide Baroque concert returning to Emmanuel

Friday, December 27, 2 p.m., Emmanuel Episcopal Church

— from Jeffrey Cohan for Salish Sea Early Music Festival —

Music at Emmanuel presents the thirteenth annual Yuletide Baroque:
Jazzin’ with the Classics for Christmas, featuring special guest mezzo soprano Moqui Lund from Los Angeles, jazz flutist, pianist and
clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and virtuoso
jazz/classical vibraphone player Tom Collier on Friday afternoon,
December 27, 2019 at 2:00 PM at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish in Eastsound on Orcas Island.

Admission will be by free will offering, with a suggested donation of $10.
18 and under free. Please call the church at (360) 376-2352 for more
information.

In this program, renowned classical and jazz artists and friends meld
their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and unique
celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an
abundance of Holiday cheer. These four team up to bridge contemporary
improvisational jazz and the “art music” of baroque and renaissance
times. Instrumental musicians have “jazzed up” melodies familiar to them
in the style of their day for centuries, and this team’s virtuoso
improvisations on Yuletide favorites, and their renditions of classical
standards, bringing together the best of jazz and classical worlds in an
all new program for 2019.

About the Artists
MOQUI LUND
Mezzo soprano Moqui Lund grew up with a broom in her hand as her
microphone. When everyone else had gone to bed in the family, Moqui was
learning her art. And, it really paid off. Moqui is the kind of singer
who shoots straight from the heart with a voice as smooth as honey. A
storyteller through song, she will mesmerize you with great songs, ala
Billy Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Ella.

MARTIN LUND
Martin Lund, an extremely diverse musician and an Orcas native, has
played with some of the great blues artists of our time and worked in
the studios of LA as a composer, arranger and musician with artists like
Mel Torme to Isacc Hayes. His eclectic background has allowed him to
move freely through any style of music from classical to rock and from
jazz to Broadway. He is equally adept at clarinet, saxophone, flute and
piano. Martin is a well-known performer and teacher who produces one of
Orcas Island’s most popular summer music events, The One World Music
Festival, a jazz-based musical variety show with Orcas Island’s best
musicians and top-notch talent from beyond the islands. Martin graduated
from the University of Washington with a BA in both music and music
education.

TOM COLLIER
Director of percussion studies at the University of Washington School of
Music since 1980, Tom Collier is a veteran of more than 50 years in
music — his first public appearance was at age five, on xylophone, and
his first professional performances were made as a nine-year-old marimba
virtuoso. Tom has since performed and recorded with his own jazz group
and many important classical, jazz, and popular artists, including Bill
Frisell, Frank Zappa, Shelly Manne, Laurindo Almeida, Natalie Cole,
Mannheim Steamroller, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis,
Olivia Newton-John, The Beach Boys, and too many more to name. In the
classical arena, Collier has appeared as guest soloist with the Seattle
Symphony and many other orchestras, and as percussionist with the Los
Angeles Repertoire Orchestra, L.A. Contempo Four and the Northwest
Chamber Orchestra. He has presented over 300 jazz concerts in public
schools around Washington State for the Arts In Education Program under
the auspices of that state’s Arts Commission. Collier has released
several albums as leader or co-leader beginning with Inner City Records
in 1981 and continuing through the present. In 2014, he was awarded a
Royalty Research Grant by the University to produce three new recordings
in three different settings. In addition, he has recorded several
educational albums for Music Minus One and Studio 4 Music. In 1980,
Collier was presented with an “Outstanding Service To Jazz Education”
award by the National Association of Jazz Educators, and over the past
thirty years, he has won twenty five ASCAP Popular Panel and ASCAPlus
Awards for his various jazz and percussion compositions. In 2011, the
prestigious Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professorship in the
University of Washington School of Music was awarded to Professor
Collier for the academic years 2011-2013.

JEFFREY COHAN
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, both on
modern and early transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the
present. The winner of many important petitions and awards, he has performed throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and worldwide for the USIA Arts America Program.  Many works have been written for and premiered by him, including five new flute concerti since 2000.  He is artistic director of the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC, the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival in the Midwest and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival in the Pacific Northwest. He can “play many superstar flutists one might name under the table” according to the New York Times and is “The Flute Master” (headline) according to the Boston Globe.