Early Music Festival to Feature Flute, Keyboard

Thursday, April 7, 7 p.m., Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church

— from Jeffrey Cohan —

Henry Lebedinsky

Virtuoso duos from the last half of the 18th century reflect the changing musical currents of Mozart’s lifetime and explore a new relationship between the increasingly popular fortepiano and the flute in Fortepiano and Flute with flutist Jeffrey Cohan and fortepianist Henry Lebedinsky on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 PM at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound on Orcas Island.

The program will include works mostly for flute with obbligato keyboard but also for flute with figured bass by flutist François Devienne (pictured above), Mozart’s publisher Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel who lived with Mozart for two years as a child virtuoso, and J.S. Bach’s sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, all written between 1755 and about 1800.

Jeffrey Cohan

The one-keyed flute of the baroque period acquired as many as six or eight keys and the harpsichord yielded to the fortepiano as the keyboard instrument of choice during this span of 50 years, which encompasses the complete life and works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, productive periods for the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the rise of a new breed of virtuosos such as Devienne, Beethoven and Hummel. Jeffrey Cohan will play replicas of both a one-keyed flute from about 1755 and an eight-keyed flute from about 1807. Henry Lebedinsky will play an original fortepiano made in 1799.

The suggested donation will be $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering). Those 18 and under are free. Please please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas or call the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at (360) 376-6683 for more information.

Complete FORTEPIANO and FLUTE performance schedule in the San Juans:

• Orcas Island: Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:00 PM
  · Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 376-6683
• Lopez Island: Friday, April 8, 2016 at 7:00 PM
  · Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477
• San Juan Island: Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7:00 PM
  · Brickworks · 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents six performances at Grace Church this year with three musicians from Germany and others from four states and the Pacific Northwest. The festival has presented countless premiere period instrument performances in modern times of early works, including Seattle’s first ever period instrument Mozart-era orchestra (for Mozart symphonies and concerti in 1999), unpublished chamber music from the court of Louis XIV, and renaissance chamber music with instrumentation that has not been heard for more than three centuries.