Candlelight Concerts: Jazzin' with the Classics
Free (suggested donation: $15 adult, 18 & under free)
- Gail Pettis, voice
- Martin Lund, flute & clarinet
- Jeffrey Cohan, flute
- Paul Gabrielson, double bass
Candlelight Concerts in Seattle presents the 6th annual "Jazzin' with the Classics for Christmas" at Faith Lutheran Church, featuring vocalist Gail Pettis, jazz pianist, flutist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan, and bassist Paul Gabrielson in a unique and joyous celebration of music for the holidays that bridges the jazz/classical divide on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 7pm at Faith Lutheran Church in Seattle.
In this program, the four renowned jazz and classical artists and friends meld their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and unique celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer. Pettis, Lund, Cohan, and Gabrielson will team up to bridge contemporary improvisational jazz and the "art music" of Baroque and Renaissance times. Instrumental musicians have "jazzed up" melodies familiar to them in the style of their day for centuries, and this team's virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide favorites, and their renditions of classical standards will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds in a new program for 2023.
About Gail Pettis, voice
About Martin Lund, flute & clarinet
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/