Salish Sea Fest Will Feature Flutes, Harpsichord

Saturday, February 17, 7 p.m., Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church

— from Jeffrey Cohan —

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents a flute extravaganza entitled Baroque Flute Trios with internationally celebrated baroque flutists Janet See, Mindy Rosenfeld and Jeffrey Cohan, along with harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie. Trios for three flutes and harpsichord as well as duos and harpsichord solos by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, James Oswald, Georg Philipp Telemann, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and others will be included in the program.

The concert takes place on Saturday, February 17 at 7:00 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas. or call (360) 376-6683. Admission is by suggested donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering), and those 18 & under are free.

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/orcas.

About the Artists

MINDY ROSENFELD, a founding member of the Baltimore Consort, has since 1989 been a member of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. A frequent guest artist with numerous other West Coast early music ensembles, Mindy is a mother of five (all boys) who divides her time between performing, teaching, her family, and an organic garden, the fruits of which she enjoys sharing at farmers’ markets near her Mendocino, California home.

For over 30 years JANET SEE has performed as a soloist, in chamber music, and in orchestras throughout North America and Europe. In London, where Janet lived for 12 years, she played principal flute for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s two orchestras and for ‘The Taverner Players’, conducted by Andrew Parrott. In North America Janet plays principal flute with Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan and has recorded Vivaldi and Mozart Concertos with that orchestra. She also performs frequently with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and as guest soloist with chamber music ensembles throughout the US and Canada. Among her highly acclaimed recordings are the Vivaldi Concertos and the complete Bach Flute Sonatas, both recorded on the Harmonia Mundi label. Other labels she has recorded on include DG Archive, EMI, Erato, Hyperion and Phantom Partner. Janet is on the Early Music Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She received her degree on the modern flute at Oberlin Conservatory, training with Robert Willoughby, and her post-graduate training was with Frans Vester in The Hague. Janet is a qualified teacher of the F.M. Alexander Technique, and currently lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and son.

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.”

The 2018 SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL for the eighth year features some of the finest period instrument specialists from the North America and Europe, presenting seven contrasting performances all around the Salish Sea of chamber music from the Renaissance through the time of Beethoven on period instruments. 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/orcas.