Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Simphonie Nouvelle, Louis XIV, & J.S. Bach
Free (suggested donation: $20-$30, ages 18 & under free)
- Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar
- Susie Napper, viola da gamba
- Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
Robert de Viseé — Selected works
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe — Selected works
Marin Marais — Selected works
Jacques Morel — Selected works
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre — Selected works
François Couperin — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034
Louis XIV gathered the finest musicians of France at his court in Versailles. This program features many of these Baroque superstars, including guitarists Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) and Robert de Visée (c.1655-1732), viola da gambists Sainte Colombe (c.1640-c. 1700), Marin Marais (1656-1728) and Jacques Morel (c.1680-1740), flutist Michel de la Barre (c.1675-1745), and composers Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) and François Couperin (1668-1733). The Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed as well.
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give eleven performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, Feb. 12-19; the 2024 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Simphonie Nouvelle
Simphonie Nouvelle is comprised of baroque guitarist Stephen Stubbs, co-director of the Boston Early Music Festival and Pacific Music Works; viola da gambist Susie Napper, founder and director emeritus of the Montreal Baroque Festival; and flutist and Salish Sea Early Music Festival director Jeffrey Cohan.
https://www.jeffreycohan.com/projects.htmlAbout Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar
About Susie Napper, viola da gamba
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/Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island
20103 State Route 525Freeland, WA 98249
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