Salish Sea Early Music Festival: The Four-Part Italian Canzona (1580-1625)
Free (suggested donation: $20-$25, ages 18 & under free)
- Vicki Boeckman, Renaissance recorders
- Anna Marsh, Renaissance bassoon
- Lindsey Strand-Polyak, viola
- Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance transverse flute
Giovanni Paolo Cima — Selected works
Giacomo Filippo Biumi — Selected works
Floriano Canali — Selected works
Giovanni Battista Buonamente — Selected works
Fiorenzo Maschera — Selected works
Giulio Cesare Ardemanio — Selected works
Girolamo Frescobaldi — Selected works
Nicolò Corradini — Selected works
The twelfth annual 2023 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents seven programs beginning with Italian Four-Part Canzonas with Vicki Boeckman (renaissance recorders), Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance transverse flute), Lindsey Strand-Polyak (viola), and Anna Marsh (dulcian, or renaissance bassoon).
The concert will provide an in-depth exploration of the rarely-heard Italian four-part canzona which blossomed in print from 1582 through the early decades of the 1600s and was inspired by French and Flemish chansons from the early 1500s. It will include music ranging from 1529, marking the beginning of commercial music printing in Europe, through 1636 at which point more "modern" stylistic forms such as the familiar sonata began to supplant the canzona, which bridged Renaissance and Baroque musical styles. Canzonas by Andrea and Giovanni Cima, Biumi, Canale, Buonamente, Maschera, Ardemanio, Frescobaldi, and Corradini are to be included in the program alongside examples of the instrumental renditions French and Flemish songs that inspired them, all performed on recorder, transverse flute, viola, and renaissance bassoon (dulcian). These copies of 16th-century instruments represent a most unusual blend of instruments that may have been quite commonly heard then.
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give ten performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, January 27 through February 4; the 2023 Festival will consist of eight unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Vicki Boeckman, Renaissance recorders
About Anna Marsh, Renaissance bassoon
About Lindsey Strand-Polyak, 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 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/Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island
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