Sonatas for Flute, Harpsichord Featured in Salish Sea Early Music Fest

Sunday, March 17, 7:30 p.m., Orcas Adventist Church

— from Jeffrey Cohan —

Flutist Jeffrey Cohan and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor will perform the sonatas for flute and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach in Bach’s Flute Sonatas on Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound, presented by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. Please see the full San Juan Islands schedule for this performance and the complete schedule of upcoming performances at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church below.

Professor at the Conservatory of Music in Lubeck, Germany and formerly organist at the St. Marien Kirche to which Bach walked for three days to hear Dietrich Buxtehude, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor has performed the Goldberg Variations 120 times, perhaps more than any other living harpsichordist. Flutist Jeffrey Cohan is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival, and has worked with Hans-Jürgen Schnoor for more than three decades.

Please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas or call the church at ( 360) 376-6683 for additional information. Admission is by suggested donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering), and those 18 & under are free.

Conductor, organist, harpsichordist, fortepianist and modern pianist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor is one of Germany’s leading performers and conductors of period instrument performances of the instrumental and choral works of Bach and others. Recognzed internationally as a Bach scholar, he has performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg-Variations more than any other artist, over 120 times. He is Professor for harpsichord, basso continuo, early performance practice and music theory at the Lübeck Conservatory of Music and Director of the Remter Concerts at the St. Annen Museum and the city’s Kunsthalle in Lübeck. Recently Music Director at the St. Marien Kirche in Lübeck, one of the most historically significant and sought-after organ positions in Europe, he has been cantor and organist at the St. Jakobi Church in Lübeck and director of the Neumünster Bach Choir, Concerto Lübeck and the Hamburg Consort (period instruments). Mr. Schnoor has won numerous awards and has made many solo recordings.

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 the highest prize awarded in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua for Ensembles in Brugge, Belgium. 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.

In 2019 the Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents eight performances on Lopez Island of early chamber music performed on period instruments. The festival has presented countless first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works. Flutist Jeffrey Cohan is the festival’s artistic director. Additional information is available atwww.salishseafestival.org/orcas.