Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Renaissance to Baroque – The Italian Canzona
Free (suggested donation: $20-$30, ages 18 & under free)
- Vicki Boeckman, Renaissance recorders
- Tina Chancey, Renaissance viols
- Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance transverse flute
- Anna Marsh, dulcian
Floriano Canale — Selected works
Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio — Selected works
Antonio Troilo — Selected works
Giovanni Gabrieli — Selected works
Girolamo Frescobaldi — Selected works
Giovanni Antonio Cangiasi — Selected works
Giacomo Filippo Biumi — Selected works
Nicolò Corradini — Selected works
Giovanni Battista Buonamente — Selected works
Clément Janequin — Le chant des oiseaux ("Song of the Birds")
The 2025 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents its inaugural program of ten through July in its 2025 Festival of early chamber music performed on period instruments entitled Renaissance to Baroque: The Italian Canzona with four specialists performing on instruments of the renaissance including Vicki Boeckman on renaissance recorders of various sizes, Tina Chancey on renaissance viols of various sizes, Jeffrey Cohan on Renaissance transverse flute, and Anna Marsh on dulcian, the renaissance bassoon.
The concert will provide an in-depth exploration of the Italian four-part canzona which blossomed in print from 1577 through the early decades of the 1600’s, was inspired by French and Flemish chansons of the early 1500s, and defined to a great extent the instrumental transition between Renaissance and Baroque. It will trace the development of the canzona from 1529, when commercial music printing was just beginning in Europe, through 1636 at which point more "baroque" stylistic forms such as the sonata and the suite began to emerge. Canzonas by Florentino Maschera (1582), Floriano Canale (1600), Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio (1605), Antonio Troilo (1606), Giovanni Gabrieli (1608), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1608), Giovanni Antonio Cangiasi (1614), Giacomo Biumi (1624), Nicolò Corradini (1624), Giovanni Buonamente (1636) and others are to be included in the program along with the earlier French and Flemish songs, published for instruments with no text in 1529, 1577 and 1588 that inspired them, including Clément Janequin's Song of the Birds in an instrumental version from 1577. All will be performed on Renaissance recorders of various sizes, Renaissance transverse flute, Renaissance viols of various sizes, and Renaissance dulcian or bassoon of the 16th Century which create an unusual blend and provide a distinct character to each of the four entertwining musical lines.
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give eleven performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, Jan. 17-24; the 2025 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through July. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Vicki Boeckman, Renaissance recorders
About Tina Chancey, Renaissance viols
About Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance transverse flute
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, who the Boston Globe calls "The Flute Master," has performed in 25 countries throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey, and Portugal. 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 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. The only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium and in the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston, two of the most prestigious prizes for performers of early music on period instruments, he has premiered new music by many American and European composers. Jeffrey Cohan directs the Cascade Early Music Festival, the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, and the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival. The New York Times has heralded his ability to "play several superstar flutists one might name under the table."
https://www.jeffreycohan.com/