Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Fortepiano & Flute
$15-$25 suggested donation
Franz Anton Hoffmeister — Selected works
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach — Selected works
François Devienne — Selected works
Johann Nepomuk Hummel — Selected works
Henry Lebedinsky, fortepiano
Jeffrey Cohan, late 18th and early 19th-century keyed flutes
Virtuoso duos from the last half of the 18th century for keyboard and flute as equal partners explore a new relationship between the fortepiano, increasingly the keyboard of choice during this period, and the flute, more and more with six or eight keys replacing the single key of the baroque flute, in Fortepiano and Flute with flutist Jeffrey Cohan and fortepianist Henry Lebedinsky.
During this span of 50 years, the one-keyed flute of the baroque period acquired as many as six or eight keys, and Jeffrey Cohan will play replicas of both a one-keyed flute from about 1755 and an eight-keyed flute from about 1807. Henry Lebedinsky will play an original fortepiano made in 1799. The program will include works mostly for flute with obbligato keyboard but also with figured bass from the final half of the 18th century by flutist François Devienne, Mozart's publisher Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel (who lived with Mozart for two years as a child virtuoso), and J.S. Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, all written between 1755 and about 1800.
The suggested donation will be $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering). Age 18 and under are free.
About the 2016 Salish Sea Early Music Festival
The sixth annual 2016 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents six diverse programs of early chamber music on period instruments in Seattle with leading early music specialists from Europe, the Pacific Northwest and around the United States at Christ Episcopal Church from January through June.
Performers include harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, who is organist at St. Mary's church in Lübeck, Germany to which Bach walked for days to hear Dietrich Buxtehude, violinist Ingrid Matthews who founded and directed the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, harpsichordist Bernward Lohr and violinist Anne Röhrig who teach at German music conservatories in Hannover and Nuremburg, guitarist Oleg Timofeyev who is one of the world's leading exponents of the Russian 7-string guitar of Beethoven's time, and flutist and artistic director Jeffrey Cohan.
Each program is repeated in nine cities around the Salish Sea from Tacoma to Vancouver, BC in a total of 54 performances. [See full calendar here.]