Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Bach II – Concerti & Cantatas
Free (suggested donation: $20-$25, ages 18 & under free)
- Maike Albrecht, soprano
- Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, harpsichord
- Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
- Carrie Krause, violin
- Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, violin
- Lindsey Strand-Polyak, viola
- Annabeth Shirley, cello
The twelfth annual 2023 Salish Sea Early Music Festival continues with this program of works by J.S. Bach. Featuring Maike Albrecht (soprano), Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (harpsichord), Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute), Carrie Krause (violin), Elisabeth Phelps (violin), Lindsey Strand-Polyak (viola), and Annabeth Shirley (cello).
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give nine performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, May 21-27; 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, harpsichord
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.
About 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, violin
About Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, violin
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/