Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Russian Guitar & Beethoven's Flute for Our Friends in Ukraine
$15-$25 suggested donation
- Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
- Jeffrey Cohan, flute
Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier — Selected works
Mauro Giuliani — Selected works
Theodor Gaude — Selected works
Ignaz von Held — Selected works
Salish Sea Early Music Festival opens with an exploration of Beethoven-era repertoire for flute and guitar, featuring antique Russian and English instruments, and repertoire by prominent flutists and guitarists from Russia, France, Germany, and Italy. Oleg Timofeyev will play a Russian 7-string guitar made in Russia in 1815, and Jeffrey Cohan will play an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820.
The program will include music composed collaboratively by guitarist Louis-Ange Carpentras (1786-1852) and flutist Antoine Tranquille Berbiguier (1782-1835), along with works by guitarist Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829), flutist Theodor Gaude (1782-1846), and one of the first modern-day performances of a sonata for flute and Russian 7-string guitar by Czech guitarist Ignaz von Held (1764-1816), which can be heard in an online performance by Timofeyev and Cohan here.
Timofeyev, originally from Moscow, and Cohan have performed together in Kiev and in six cities in the north, south, east and west of Ukraine, where conflict currently rages. Both have ancestors who lived in Ukraine. For two years Timoveyev lived with his family and did research in Kiev, funded by a Fulbright fellowship. This concert is dedicated to the love of the Ukrainian national spirit and the love for their country that unites all Ukrainians, as witnessed by Timofeyev and Cohan and as is so evident today.
COVID-19 Protocols: Masks and vaccination required.
About Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
About Jeffrey Cohan, 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/