The Salish Sea Early Music Festival pays tribute to Hanover, Germany’s vibrant early music scene in Hanover Baroque, an evening of baroque trio sonatas, solos and duos with harpsichordist Bernward Lohr, director of Hanover’s Musica Alta Ripa, one of Germany’s most active period instrument ensembles, baroque violinist Anne Röhrig, leader of the Hannoversche Hofkapelle (the “Hanover Court Orchestra”), one of Europe’s premier baroque orchestras, and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan on Friday, March 4 at 7:00 PM at Brickworks at 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island.
Bernward Lohr and Anne Röhrig are both professors at music conservatories in both Hanover and Nuremburg, Germany. Their more than 30 recordings have garnered awards including the Diapason Dòr, the Cannes Classical Award, the German Recording Critics’ Prize, and several times the Echo Klassik. Both were awarded the 2002 Music Award of Lower Saxony. The Salish Sea Early Music Festival, now in its sixth year, presents six performances in 2016, this year with three musicians from Germany and others from four states and the Pacific Northwest. The festival has presented countless first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works.
The suggested donation will be $15, $20 or $25. Those 18 and under are free. Please see www.salishseafestival. org/sanjuan. Complete Baroque trio Sontatas performance schedule on San Juan Island: Friday, March 4, at 7 p.m. at Brickworks · 150 Nichols Street in Friday Harbor.
Upcoming on San Juan Island at Brickworks in Friday Harbor:
• On Saturday, April 9 at 7 p.m.,: Fortepiano and Flute features virtuoso repertoire for flute and piano from 1770 through 1830, performed on original instruments made during this period with fortepianist Henry Lebedinsky and flutist Jeffrey Cohan.
• On Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m., The Musical Offering presents Bach’s masterwork of the same name written in 1747 for flutist Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, with harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor who comes from Lübeck Germany for this performance, along with baroque violinist Ingrid Matthews and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.
• On Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m., 2016, Versailles features the music and musicians from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV with John Lenti on theorbo & baroque guitar, Joanna Blendulf on viola da gamba and Jeffrey Cohan playing a copy of a flute made by one of Louis XIV’s court musicians.
• On Thursday, June 9 at 7 p.m., Virtuoso Guitar and Flute presents a sampling of music by the outstanding guitar and flute virtuosos of the early 19th century with guitarist John Schneiderman, and Jeffrey Cohan performing on an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820.
