CANCELLED: "Corelli and Handel's Soprano" with the Salish Sea Early Music Festival

Jan Weinhold, pianist from Lubeck Germany for the Early Salish Sea Music Festival performance next Sunday

Jan Weinhold, pianist from Luebeck Germany for the Early Salish Sea Music Festival performance next Sunday

This event has been cancelled due to performer’s illness

Sunday, Feb. 10 at 1:30 p.m. at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound
On Sunday afternoon, February 10 at 1:30 p.m. (see below for Lopez and Friday Harbor performances) the third annual Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Orcas Island continues at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church with “Corelli and Handel’s Soprano,” featuring soprano Linda Tsatsanis, harpsichordist Jan Weinhold from Luebeck, Germany and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan. The trio celebrate Corelli’s 300th anniversary with two of Corelli’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord in an early 18th-century transcription for flute, and great vocal works by Handel including joyful and heart-wrenching selections from the Nine German Arias, “Sweet Bird” from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and the cantata “Lucrezia,” a dramatic portrayal of the legend of Lucretia whose rape and subsequent suicide in ancient Rome led to the formation of the Roman Republic.

The Performers:

Hailed as “ravishing” by the New York Times and for her “sheer vocal proficiency, a bright, flexible voice, big but controlled, shaded with plentiful color” by the Boston Globe, Canadian soprano Linda Tsatsanis is equally comfortable on the opera stage and in the concert hall, and has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Auburn Symphony, Pacific Musicworks, Orchestra Seattle, Helios Opera, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and has been presented by the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, San Francisco Early Music Society, and Magnolia Baroque Festival. Ms. Tsatsanis holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Indiana University. She has a solo album with Origin Classical, And I Remain: Three Love Stories, described as a “seductive recital of the darker sides of 17th-century love” (Gramophone), and can also be heard on recordings by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Naxos.

Harpsichordist JAN WEINHOLD was born in Hamburg, Germany, where he studied sacred music, organ and historical keyboard instruments with Jon Laukvik in Stuttgart and Bernhard Klapprott in Bremen and Weimar, along with further study with Wolfgang Zerer, Andreas Rondthaler, Gerald Hambitzer, Ewald Kooiman and Jesper Christensen. He performs as soloist, chamber musician and continuo player on organ, harpsichord, clavichord and pianoforte in oratorios, operas and numerous lieder recitals. He has played for Handel Festivals in Göttingen and Halle, the Bachtagen in Weimar and Köthen, the Güldenen Herbst, and for the Cascade Early Music Festival. He performs with Cantus and Capella Thuringia, and has taken part in many recordings and radio broadcasts. Since 1994, he has been cantor and organist at the Waldkirche in Timmendorfer Strand, where in 2000 he initiated a cycle of Bach cantatas. He taught harpsichord, organ and performance practice as assistant professor at the Lübeck Music Conservatory from 2005 until 2009.

Flutist Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, having received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of very few who specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. He is the only person to win both the Erwin Bodky Award in Boston, and the highest prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua in Brugge, Belgium. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards Competition, he has performed throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and worldwide for the USIA Arts America Program. He received the highest rating from the Music Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, and has recorded for NPR in the United States, and for national radio and television in Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. 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 and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. He can “play many superstar flutists one might name under the table” according to the New York Times, and is “The Flute Master” according to the Boston Globe.

“Corelli and Handel’s Soprano” is the second of five 2013 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performances on Orcas Island from January through June with some of the most accomplished performers on period instruments from Germany (2), Montreal, Eugene, Los Angeles and the Northwest.

The suggested donation $15 or $20; 18 and under free; other students $5, Further information is available at: www.salishseafestival.org and (360) 376-6683 (Orcas Adventist Church)

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