Early Music Festival Presents Giulianiad with Flute and Guitar

Jeffrey Cohan, with David Schneiderman, will present the final Salish Sea Early Music Festival concert on June 1 and 2 in the San Juan islands

Sunday June 2 at 1:30 p.m at the Orcas Adventist Church

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents Giulianiad, its final 2013 program featuring works for flute and guitar by Mauro Giuliani on period instruments with John Schneiderman (Los Angeles) on the early 19th-century guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820 on Sunday afternoon, June 2 at 1:30 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound, on the campus of the Orcas Christian School.

Clearly the most famous composer of music for flute and guitar, Mauro Giuliani was a phenomenal guitar virtuoso whose music is very rarely heard on the instruments with which he and his friend Beethoven were familiar. These are considerably sweeter, more intimate and expressively nuanced than their modern equivalents. Giuliani composed the “cream” of the flute and guitar duo repertoire from Beethoven’s time, which includes duos, serenades, divertimenti, marches, dances, and arrangements of opera melodies and other popular tunes of his day in variations and potpourris.

The Giulianiad was a journal for guitarists published in London a few years after Giuliani’s death.

Additional performances for Giulianiad:

•  Lopez Island: Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM
  · Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477

•  San Juan Island (Friday Harbor): Sunday evening, June 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM
  · San Juan Island Grange · 152 – 1st street · 378-6632

About  John Schneiderman — early 19th-century guitar —

A critically acclaimed virtuoso of plucked instruments since age nine, John Schneiderman specializes in the performance practice and repertoire of eighteenth-century lutes and nineteenth-century guitars. Based in California, Mr. Schneiderman is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician collaborating on recordings and performances throughout North America. The young Schneiderman was a familiar face on the stages of bluegrass and folk festivals throughout California before studying with British guitar pedagogue and author Frederick Noad, and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, with the great modern pioneer of the baroque lute, Eugen Dombois.

A founder of the chamber ensembles Galanterie and The Czar’s Guitars, Mr. Schneiderman has performed with the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Seattle Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Chanticleer, Musica Pacifica and the American Bach Soloists among others. His extensive discography, much of it rarely or never before recorded lute and guitar music, includes CDs on the Titanic, AudioQuest, Centaur, VGo, Profil:Edition Günter Hänssler and Dorian Sono Luminus labels. Mr. Schneiderman is currently on the faculties of the University of California, Irvine and Irvine Valley College, and has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

About Jeffrey Cohan —  baroque flute —

Flutist Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, both as a modern flutist and as one of few who specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. He is the only person to win both the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston and the highest prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium, two of the most prestigious awards in the United States and Europe for performers of early music. His numerous prizes and awards include the First Prize in the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards Competition, and a grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music which sponsored his debut recital in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. He is artistic director of the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.