Salish Sea Early Music returns with Olena Zhukova, Jeffrey Cohan

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

Our special guest Ukrainian Olena Zhukova, just arrived from Kyiv. joins baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in offering an 18th-Century European Tour for Flute and Harpsichord on Tuesday, February 24 at 5:00 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound.

Celebrated Ukrainian harpsichordist Olena Zhukova will play music by Johann Sebastian Bach to represent Germany, alongside other selections for solo harpsichord in this musical tour of 18th-century Europe. She will be joined by baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan to sample 18th-century musical activity around the European continent by Boismortier (France), Vivaldi (Italy), Oswald (Scotland), Handel (England), and extending to the end of the century with works by Mozart (Austria) and Berezovsky (Ukraine).

This concert, presented in collaboration with the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, takes place on Tuesday, February 24 at 5:00 PM at
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in  Eastsound. Admission is by a 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

About Olena Zhukova:

Ukrainian harpsichordist OLENA ZHUKOVA maintains her role as one of the foremost performers of works for harpsichord from five centuries, with  frequent prominent solo, concerto and ensemble appearances with distinguished festivals, ensembles and venues throughout Ukraine and abroad. She holds a PhD and is Associate Professor at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv and founder of the harpsichord class at the Glier Music Institute, having studied with the most prominent harpsichordists of our time, and is a winner of numerous harpsichord prizes and competitions.

She represented Ukraine during the Winter Olympic games in Pyeongchang and Seoul, and for the Youth Olympic games in Buenos-Aires, Argentina. She has performed together with prominent Ukrainian ensembles including the Kiev Baroque Ensemble, Offertorium, Ars Amarilli, Secundum Artem, Lege artis and others. Among other awards and achievements she has received awards in seven International Competitions, including the First Prize in the Solo category and the Absolute First Prize in the “Bach Concerto for Harpsichord with Orchestra” in the Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Competition, and 1st Prize in the International Tadini Competition among others. She has collaborated with Ukrainian singers and instrumentalists of international renown including Olena Leser (Lena Belkina), Andrei Bondarenko, Olga Bezsmertna, Olexandr Pushnyak. In 2017 her debut CD “Harpsichord Mystery” was released.

About Salish Sea Early Music Festival

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival has since 2011 provided world class period instrument performances of chamber music, both familiar and rarely or never before heard in modern times, with musicians from Europe and all around the Puget Sound, the United States and Canada who are among the finest in their field around the globe. Entrance is by donation and the concerts have always been open to all regardless of contribution. The Salish Sea Early Music Festival and is a non-profit 501c3 organization and was granted affiliate status by Early Music America, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America.