Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Three Centuries – Guitar, Theorbo, & Flute
Free (suggested donation: $20-$30, ages 18 & under free)
- Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance & Baroque flutes
- Michael Freimuth, Renaissance guitar & theorbo
William Byrd — Selected works
Giovanni Bassano — Selected works
Girolamo Dalla Casa (Hieronymo de Udene) — Selected works
Giovanni Paolo Cima — Selected works
Girolamo Frescobaldi — Selected works
Giovanni Battista Fontana — Selected works
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde — Selected works
Giovanni Battista Buonamente — Selected works
Arcangelo Corelli — Selected works
André Chéron — Selected works
Join us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival and an unusual and expansive journey through the music for guitar, lute and flute of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, including elaborate jazzed-up versions of well known songs of the time, published by the incredible wind instrument virtuosi of the late 16th Century, along with canzonas, sonatas, and suites from Spain, Italy, England, and France. The instruments include the Renaissance guitar – which is considerably smaller and more mellow-toned than its modern descendant, theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute) – and the one-piece cylindrical Renaissance flute, along with the bass Renaissance flute and the one-keyed Baroque flute.
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give eleven performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, Jan. 19-26; the 2024 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Jeffrey Cohan, Renaissance & Baroque flutes
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 Michael Freimuth, Renaissance guitar & theorbo
Michael Freimuth from Kiel, Germany is dedicated to lute and guitar music of the 16th through 19th Centuries, and is one of the most sought-after lutenists in Europe. He has toured both as soloist and with well-known conductors and as chamber musician in Europe, the USA, Japan, and South Korea.
He has collaborated with many well-known artists and conductors including C. Abbado, I. Bolton, P. Dijkstra, R. Goebel, Th. Hengelbrock, M. Hirasaki, K. Junghänel, E. Kirkby, A. Quarta, V. Luks, H. Max, R. Minasi, Ch. Schornsheim, R. Wilson and many others. In recent years Michael Freimuth has performed for opera productions throughout Europe including Cesti's Orontea, Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, Handel's Jephta, Rodelinda and Agrippina and Mozart's Cosi under Ivor Bolton; Leclair's Scylla under Václav Luks; Steffani's Amor vien dal destino, and Handel's Teséo under René Jacobs; and Handel's Rodelinda under Riccardo Minasi. He has participated in CD recordings and performances with Concerto Köln and the Academy for Early Music Berlin. His solo recording of previously unknown sonatas by Michele Platano in 2017 followed his recording of lute works by Silvius Leopold Weiss found at Rohrau Castle. He recorded the entire cycle of Rosary Sonatas by Biber for Deutschlandfunk with violinist Mayumi Hirasaki and harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim, and the album L'Arte della scordatura with Mayumi Hirasak, which was released in 2020.
https://www.carus-verlag.com/en/persons/michael-freimuth/