Salish Sea Early Music Festival | Wednesday with Frederick the Great

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

Please join us next Wednesday at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church for a flute concerto composed by the king himself, who was an enthusiastic flutist and composer and performed almost nightly for concerts at his court, alongside concerti for both flute (A Major)  and for harpsichord (D Major) by Frederick the Great’s court keyboardist Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, as well as the Suite in B Minor by his father Johann Sebastian Bach, whose visit in 1747 to Frederick the Great’s court is legendary.

Wednesday May 21 at 5:00 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound:
 — CONCERTI from the COURT of FREDERICK THE GREAT
· David Schrader, harpsichord (Chicago)
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute (Anacortes)
· Elizabeth Phelps, baroque violin (Seattle)
· Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin (Los Angeles)
· Christine Moran, baroque viola (San Francisco)
· Susie Napper, baroque cello (Montreal)

Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church
107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound
www.salishseafestival.org/orcas
— Suggested donation $20 to $30
(a free will offering; pay as you wish) — 18 and under free

Our Guests:
A performer of wide ranging interests and accomplishments, DAVID SCHRADER is equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano and has performed as featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and Erich Leinsdorf. He has appeared with the Grant Park Symphony under Carlos Kalmar, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, El Paso Symphony Orchestra, and with many other orchestras throughout the USA and Canada.

David Schrader has appeared at numerous music festivals throughout the USA and Europe and has performed five separate programs as featured performer at the prestigious Irving Gilmore Keyboard Festival, as the Artist of the Year at the Oulunsalo Soi Music Festival in Oulu, Finland, as harpsichord soloist with the Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble in a tour of Japan under Yuko Mori, as soloist with the Canadian Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik in a European tour, for the Michigan Mozartfest with Roger Norrington, and at the Ravina Festival under the direction of Nicholas McGegan performing all six of J.S. Bach’s Brandenberg Concertos.

David Schrader’s numerous recordings include concerti of J.S. Bach with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for both recordings of Sir Georg Solti’s Creation, and the St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) and Messiah. He has many releases of solo repertoire including the music of J.S. Bach, Soler, Franck, Antonio Vivaldi, Dupré and Domenico Scarlatti. For over thirty five years he was the organist of Chicago’s Church of the Ascension.

Named Personality of the year, Prix Opus 2002; Femme de Merité in Montreal in 2011; and Compagnon de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2024, SUSIE NAPPER is cellist, gambist, and continuo player par excellence, alternatively praised or admonished for her colourful and controversial performances of solo and chamber repertoire of the baroque! Having studied at Juilliard in New York and at the Paris Conservatoire at the end of the student riots of ‘68, she founded the Montreal Baroque Festival and has spent decades with a foot on either side of the Atlantic recording, performing, teaching in Montreal and Copenhagen and touring around Europe, the Far East and Oceania, often with Les Voix Humaines. With an undying preference for harmony over melody, and the use of rubato and general freedom of expression, she’s constantly searching for rhetorical meaning and eloquence in bringing the printed page to life!