Salish Sea Early Music Festival: 3 Centuries of Folk Song

• Oleg Timofeyev, lute & guitar
• Jeffrey Cohan, flutes

"Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque and Folk: Three Centuries of Folk Song" features Oleg Timofeyev and Jeffrey Cohan in a performance of three centuries of European, Scottish, and Irish folk music, both sacred and secular, from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic periods on the plucked instruments and transverse flutes of three centuries. This is the sixth program in this year's Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

The program, in three parts, opens with settings of Psalms and variations on folk melodies by early 17th-century flutist Jacob Van Eyck, lutenist Nicolas Vallet, and others performed on renaissance lute and flute. Then, baroque flute and the rare English Guitar of the 18th Century will be heard performing the folk tunes of Scotland and Ireland as interpreted by the early 18th-century composers Francesco Barsanti, Turlough O'Carolan, James Oswald, and others. Finally, an Eastern European 7-string guitar made in 1820 and an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820 will be heard performing variations on folk music by the virtuoso flutists and guitarists of Beethoven's day.

Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give eleven performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, May 2-10, as well as a performance in Colville on Apr. 30; the 2024 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.

About Salish Sea Early Music Festival

http://www.salishseafestival.org

About Oleg Timofeyev, lute & guitar

https://russian-guitar.com/

About Jeffrey Cohan, 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."