Bach era trio as part of Early Music Fest

The trio will take you back to another time with an all Johann Sebastian Bach performance that will feature exciting new transcriptions of trio sonatas for viola da gamba, baroque flute and harpsichord.

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival returns to the Grange Hall with German harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lübeck, viola da gambist Susie Napper, director of the Montreal International Baroque Festival, and flutist Jeffrey Cohan.

The trio will take you back to another time with an all Johann Sebastian Bach performance that will feature exciting new transcriptions of trio sonatas for viola da gamba, baroque flute and harpsichord.

Enjoy Bach Trio Sonata, Sunday evening, March 8, 7 p.m. at the Grange Hall.

Harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor is a professor for harpsichord, basso continuo, early performance practice and music theory at the Lübeck Conservatory of Music in Germany. He has won numerous awards, and has made many recordings as conductor, organist, harpsichordist and a fortepianist.

Susie Napper is known for colorful, even controversial performances of both solo and chamber repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and her concert tours have taken her around the world.

Jeffrey Cohan is director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington D.C.