Opening Concert: Saturday, January 27, 7 p.m., Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
— from Jeffrey Cohen —
Treble Viol, Baroque Guitar & Flute, the opening performance among seven in the 2018 Salish Sea Early Music Festival, features Annalisa Pappano from Cincinnati, one of the world’s foremost players of treble viol, who also plays the pardessus de viole, lirone and viola da gamba and directs the Catacoustic Consort, and Michael Freimuth from Kiel Germany, one of Europe’s most active performers on baroque guitar and theorbo, along with renaissance and baroque flutist and artistic director Jeffrey Cohan.
The treble viol was widely used during the 17th and early 18th centuries but is extremely seldom to be heard today, as is also true of the renaissance transverse flute. This exploration of mostly French and Italian repertoire for treble viol, baroque guitar and flute from about 1625 to 1725 will present solos, duos and trios by Buonamente, Sweelinck, Heudelinne, Lully, De Visee and Cheron.
This opening concert takes place on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound. For additional information please see https://www.salishseafestival.
Complete San Juan Islands performance schedule for Treble Viol, Baroque Guitar & Flute:
- San Juan Island: Friday, January 26, 2018 at 7:00 PM
Brickworks · 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor - Lopez Island: Saturday, January 27 at 12:00 noon
Grace Church · 70 Sunset Lane · (360) 468-3477 - Orcas Island: Saturday, January 27 at 7:00 PM
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church · 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound · (360) 378-6632
The 2017 Salish Sea Early Music Festival, for the eighth year featuring the some of the finest period instrument specialists from the North America and Europe, presents seven contrasting performances of chamber music from the Renaissance through the time of Beethoven on period instruments on Orcas Island, this year with musicians from Germany, Montreal and all around the USA and the Pacific Northwest. The festival has presented countless first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works. Additional information is available at www.salishseafestival.org/
A donation of $15, $20 or $25, is suggested. 18 & under free. For additional information, visit www.salishseafestival.org/
About the Artists
ANNALISA PAPPANO, artistic director of the Catacoustic Consort, performs throughout the United States and Europe on treble viol, pardessus de viole, lirone and viola da gamba. Her playing has been described by critics as “mercurial and enchanting” and “with a sound that is lighter than air with the airy luster of gilding on the mirrors of a rococo drawing room.” She has performed throughout Belgium, England, Ireland, Colombia, Canada, and the U.S., has appeared on nationally syndicated radio, and has played at the Berkeley and Vancouver Early Music Festivals and the Ojai Music Festival. Pappano is a member of Atalante (England) and has performed with numerous other ensembles including the Houston Grand Opera, the Cleveland Opera, the Portland Opera, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Les Voix Baroques, Opera Atelier, the Toronto Consort, the Concord Ensemble, Cappella Artemisia (Bologna), the Dublin Drag Orchestra, Wildcat Viols, and Consortium Carissimi.
Pappano has taught at Viola da Gamba Society of America national conclaves, the Viola da Gamba Society Pacific Northwest and Northeast chapters, the San Diego Early Music Workshop, Viols West, the Madison Early Music Workshop, and has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities. Pappano led the Catacoustic Consort to win the grand prize in the Naxos / Early Music America Live Recording Competition and recorded a program of Italian laments on the Naxos label. Annalisa Pappano studied with Wendy Gillespie at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute and Catharina Meints at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is currently teaching viola da gamba at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
MICHAEL FREIMUTH is among today’s most highly sought after lute players both as soloist and in ensemble with others, including well known German baroque orchestras such as the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin with whom he toured the United States, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomanerchor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. He has worked for many years alongside conductor Ivor Bolton in opera productions in Munich, Paris, London, Amsterdam and for the Salzburger Festspiele.
He has made numerous recordings for, among others, the Berlin Musical Instruments Museum. His primary focus is in dealing with the baroque lute and works of Sylvius Leopold Weiss and J.S. Bach, including a solo CD with hitherto unknown works by S. L. Weiss, played on an original lute from 1740, and arrangements of songs of Schubert’s time on guitars of his period, including most recently a version of the complete “Winterreise” song cycle by Franz Schubert for 9-string guitar. He is co-editor of the facsimile volume “Lute music from Schloss Rohrau”, including works by S.L. Weiss. He studied the guitar in Essen and Vienna with K.Scheit and K. Ragossnig, and the lute with K.Junghänel in Cologne. Michael Freimuth has taught at the Hamburg Music Conservatory since 2008.
JEFFREY COHAN has received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th century. He won the Erwin Bodky Award in Boston, and first place in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua for Ensembles in Brugge, Belgium with lutenist Stephen Stubbs. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Competition in New York and recipient of grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has performed in more than 25 countries including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Mongolia, and for the USIA Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey and Portugal. The New York Times has heralded his ability to “play several superstar flutists one might name under the table”. He resides in Skagit Valley.
