Early chamber music from Salish Sea Early Music Festival

||| FROM JEFFREY COHAN for SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL |||

2026 SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
~ early chamber music on period instruments on Orcas Island ~

WHAT: BACH & JACQUET
              Johann Sebastian Bach and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
WHEN:  Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
WHERE:  Orcas Adventist Fellowship Chapel
        at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound
ADMISSION:   suggested donation: $20 to $30 (a free will offering), 18 &
under free.
MORE INFO: please see  www.salishseafestival.org/orcas

Irene Roldán

Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldán from Basel, Switzerland and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan present “Bach & Jacquet”, a program celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach and French composers whose innovations he benefited from, including Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Louis Couperin and Pancrace Royer, in the seventh 2026 Salish Sea Early Music Festival
program.

Born 20 years before Johann Sebastian Bach and a favorite composer of Louis XIV, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre made many important contributions in her compositions both for solo keyboard and in the development of the cantata, all the while juxtaposing and integrating the distinct French and Italian styles, all of which set the stage for techniques and forms that Bach was later to use extensively and develop further.

The program will include the sonatas in E Major and G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the performers’ transcription for flute of Bach’s violin sonata in C Minor, the Sonata in D Major by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and harpsichord solos including Jacquet de La Guerre’s Prélude in D Minor, La Zaïde by Pancrace Royer, and the Suite
in F Major by Louis Couperin.

This concert, presented in collaboration with Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, takes place on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound.

Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free.  All are welcome regardless of donation. For additional information please see  www.salishseafestival.org/orcas.