Saturday June 6 at 2 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, Eastsound
— from Jeffrey Cohan —
Cohan, Creswell and Bonham to play special Beethoven concert
Chamber music from Beethoven’s time for flute, violin, viola and cello will be presented on period instruments in “A Beethoven Band” on Saturday afternoon, June 6 at 2 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound, with flutist Jeffrey Cohan playing a flute made in London in 1820, Stephen Creswell on both violin and viola, and Martin Bonham on cello, in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s second Spring Festival program.
The program will include trios and duos by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Anton Stamitz, Franz Danzi, Joseph Haydn, and an unpublished trio from the Library of Congress by flutist Pietro Florio.
Active in Canada on both baroque cello and viola da gamba, Martin Bonham has been a member of the Victoria Symphony since 1978. Violinist and violist Stephen Creswell is a member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and performs for Early Music Vancouver. He has recorded and toured internationally with Tafelmusik of Toronto, and REBEL from New York. Flutist Jeffrey Cohan performs on all flutes from the renaissance through the present in 26 countries and is the artistic director of the festival.
This fifth annual 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes six programs of 16th to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments on Orcas Island, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the United States and Canada.
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