Salish Sea Early Music Festival is back on Orcas in 11th season

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

The 2022 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents four exciting performances through the spring at the Orcas Christian School Gym in Eastsound on Orcas Island its eleventh annual festival of early music.

Acclaimed period instrument specialists guitarist Oleg Timofeyev from Iowa, harpsichordist David Schrader from Chicago, viola da gambist Susie Napper from Montreal, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, violinist David Greenberg and many other prominent early music specialists from North America and Canada will participate in chamber music from the Renaissance through Beethoven, all on instruments of the appropriate period.

All concerts take place at 7 p.m. at the Orcas Christian School Gym, 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound on Orcas Island. Admission is by suggested donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering), and those 18 & under are free. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas.

Tuesday, March 15 -RUSSIAN GUITAR & BEETHOVEN’S FLUTE FOR FRIENDS IN UKRAINE
The festival opens with an exploration of Beethoven-era repertoire for flute and guitar featuring antique Russian and English instruments and repertoire by prominent flutists and guitarists from Russia, France, Germany and Italy. Guitarist Oleg Timofeyev will play a Russian 7-string guitar made in Russia in
1815 and Jeffrey Cohan will play an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820.

The program will include music composed collaboratively by guitarist Louis Ange Carpentras (1786-1852) and flutist Antoine Tranquille Berbiguier (1782-1835), along with works by guitarist Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829), flutist Theodor Gaude (1782-1846), and one of the first modern-day performances of a sonata for flute and Russian 7-string guitar by Czech guitarist Ignaz von Held (1764-1816), which can be heard in an online performance by Timofeyev and Cohan here:

Timofeyev, originally from Moscow, and Cohan have performed together in six cities throughout Ukraine. Both have ancestors who lived there. Timofeyev lived with his family and did research in Kiev for several years funded by a Fulbright fellowship.