Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Haydn & Schubert – A Lieder Recital
Free (suggested donation: $20-$25, ages 18 & under free)
- Maike Albrecht, soprano
- Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, piano
The twelfth annual 2023 Salish Sea Early Music Festival continues with this program of songs by F.J. Haydn and Franz Schubert. Featuring Maike Albrecht (soprano) and Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (piano).
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give just three performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, May 1-3; the 2023 Festival will consist of eight unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, piano
Conductor, organist, harpsichordist, fortepianist, and modern pianist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor is recognized internationally as a Bach scholar and has performed Bach's Goldberg Variations more than 120 times. He is a professor for harpsichord, basso continuo, early performance practice, and music theory at the Lübeck Conservatory of Music and director of the Remter Concerts at the St. Annen Museum and the city's Kunsthalle in Lübeck. Schnoor has won numerous awards and has made many solo recordings, and his harpsichord playing has been described as "keyboard fireworks" by critic Cecelia Porter in The Washington Post.