Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg 5 & Triple Concerto
Free ($15-$25 suggested donation)
- Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord
- Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
- Carrie Krause, baroque violin
- Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, baroque violin
- Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin
- Lindsey Strand-Polyak, baroque viola
- Martin Bonham, baroque cello
Johann Sebastian Bach — Triple Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Keyboard in A minor, BWV 1044
In a favorite program we have twice offered in previous seasons, harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie – newly named professor of harpsichord at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana – returns to perform two of the most moving and difficult works for harpsichord and orchestra with baroque violin soloist Cari Krause, baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan, and baroque string orchestra.
About Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord
Jonathan Oddie is a rare synergy of musician and scholar. In demand across the United States as a versatile performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and continuo organ, he works with such leading musicians as violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky and flutist Janet See, and orchestras including Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Mr. Oddie, currently visiting assistant professor of music in historical performance: historical keyboards at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford, where he researched the instrumental music of English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), and has published articles in the scholastic journals Early Music and Historical Performance. His awards include a Performer's Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music and a Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship. Oddie studied piano and harpsichord at Indiana University, where his teachers included Elisabeth Wright, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Edmund Battersby.
https://www.facebook.com/j.j.oddieAbout Jeffrey Cohan, baroque 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/About Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony and founder of Baroque Music Montana, violinist Carrie Krause studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Juilliard, has performed for many of the prominent ensembles and festivals in America and throughout Europe, and is an avid adventurer and prize-winning marathon runner.
http://www.carriekrause.com/teaching-studio.phpAbout Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, baroque violin
About Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin
About Lindsey Strand-Polyak, baroque viola
Lindsey Strand-Polyak divides her time between viola and violin and homes in Los Angeles and on Whidbey Island. Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Summer Baroque Workshop, she appears with Baroque Music Montana, Bach Collegium San Diego, Musica Angelica, Sinfonia Spirituosa, Bitterroot Baroque, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar, the Oregon Bach Festival, Byron Schenkman & Friends, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and as principal violist with Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She also serves on the boards of Early Music Seattle as the SBO liaison and Pacific Northwest Viols, and holds a PhD/MM in musicology and violin performance from UCLA.
https://www.strandpolyak.com/About Martin Bonham, baroque cello
Baroque cellist Martin Bonham was a member of the Victoria Symphony for many decades, also plays viola da gamba, and was Music Director of the Pachelbel Players, Island Chamber Players, Chamber Music Victoria, and Eine Kleine Summer Music. As a member of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, The Musick Masters, and Les Violes de Sainte-Columbe, he has made numerous radio performances and appearances in Canada and the Northwest US. As a faculty member of the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music, he has led workshops on Baroque string technique.
https://victoria-baroque.com/the-players/martin-bonham/