Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
Dear friends,
We look forward to our best-ever (as always) series of programs spanning four centuries (1525 through 1835), featuring artists for whose participation we are so grateful, who come from Ukraine, Switzerland, Germany, Montreal, from coast to coast in the United States and in the Pacific Northwest. Among them are to be harpsichordists Olena Zhukova (Kyiv), Irene Roldàn (Basel), Elisabeth Wright (Indiana) and Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (Lübeck); soprano Maike Albrecht (Lübeck); viola da gambists (also treble viol and pardessus de viol) Susie Napper (Montreal), Mélisande Corriveau (Montreal) and Annalisa Pappano (Munich); baroque guitarist and theorbo player William Simms (Baltimore) and guitarist/lutenist Oleg Timofeyev (Chicago); violinists David Greenberg (Corvalis) and Ethan Lin (Seattle); violist Vicki Gunn (Portland); and baroque bassoonist Anna Marsh (Seattle).
Our tentative schedule follows, with specific dates almost ready to be announced very soon. We’re pleased to share a diverse set of programs providing fresh new renditions of familiar and unfamiliar early chamber music exhibiting the broad areas of interest and expertise of these fabulous artists who equally share in the creative process from start to finish, with hopes of providing ourselves and hopefully you too with the transcendent musical experience that is our ultimate goal.
We greatly value your interest in sharing this music with us, and the fact that your free will offerings and donations enable us to offer the highest caliber of period instrument early chamber music is a special joy.
With heartfelt thanks and warm Season’s Greetings,
Jeffrey Cohan
2026 Salish Sea Early Music Festival tentative schedule (please also see salishseafestival.org):
Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV, Jan. 16-26
· Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon.
· Yi Hsuan, Ethan Lin, baroque violin.
· Vicki Gunn, baroque viola.
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
Italians and the Court of Louis XIV, Feb. 9-17
· Susie Napper (Montreal), viola da gamba.
· Olena Zhukova (Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord.
· Mélisande Corriveau (Montreal), treble viol and viola da gamba.
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
Les Voix humaines, the widely celebrated prize-winning duo of viols from Montreal, joins us for a program centering on the chaconne but extending from the early 17th century through Johann Sebastian Bach.
Italy to Scotland: A European Tour, Feb. 21 through March 3
· Olena Zhukova (Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord.
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
The Ukrainian harpsichordist deciphers mysterious and elusive rarities as well as standards for solo harpsichord by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti, alongside Ukrainian gems including a harpsichord sonata by Dmitry Bortnyansky (only in certain locations).
Scotland: Folk & Baroque, March 20-28
· Oleg Timofeyev, English guitar and lute.
· Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance & baroque flutes.
Telemann Paris Quartets II, April 17-27
· David Greenberg, baroque violin.
· Susie Napper (Montreal), viola da gamba.
· Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord.
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
Handel & Bach, May 4-27
· Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (Lübeck, Germany), harpsichord.
· Maike Albrecht (Lübeck, Germany), soprano.
· Susie Napper (Montreal), viola da gamba.
Goldberg Variations, Seattle only, May 21
· Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (Lübeck, Germany), harpsichord.
Johann Sebastian Bach, June 9-21
· Irene Roldán (Basel, Switzerland), harpsichord.
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
The French Connection, June 26-July 4
· Annalisa Poppano (Germany), pardessus de viole.
· Billy Simms, quitar and lute.
