/Please join us at 7 tomorrow at Mason Church! /— *Tomorrow, Monday noon, July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM*: • *Scarlatti & Bach* • *           — Irene Roldan, harpsichord **— Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute* *___________________ SCARLATTI REVIEWS:*    It has been both thrilling and inspiring in recent years to witness the rapid artistic maturation of *Irene Roldán* as a harpsichordist ... she is now a consummate soloist, demonstrating complete command of her instrument—its technical intricacies and expressive possibilities alike. After hearing her tackle this demanding program, there can be no doubt: we are in the presence of a superb harpsichordist, possessed of remarkable clarity for her age and an impressive depth of interpretive insight.    The program she brought to Seville was a thoughtful and engaging one, centered around the figure of *Domenico Scarlatti* ...    The free-form writing, often unmeasured and rife with unexpected modulations, was handled with a refined sense of timing: accelerating or relaxing the tempo, shaping silences with expressive intent, and consistently identifying the essential note in each phrase to highlight it with rhythmic and emotional weight.    Her fingering is impeccable—clean, precise, and fluid—even in the rapid-fire arpeggios of the Vivo from Nebra’s Symphony No. 2. And throughout, her sonic interpretation stands out for its crystalline clarity.      -- Andrés Moreno, DIARIO DE SEVILLE• February 26, 2025 In her solo part, which occupied the center of the recital, *Irene Roldán* once again dazzled with her exquisite musicality, her way of handling the tempo with an indisputable personality, but without ever abandoning herself to caprice. ...Her Scarlatti Sonatas were also great, admirably constructed from rhythm, color and ornamentation.      --Pablo J. Vayó, DIARIO DE SEVILLE• March 28, 2021 *_________________________________ JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH REVIEWS: * [*Irene Roldán*, in a program of *Bach concerti* with the Seville Baroque Orchestra] displays a maturity and serenity, mixed with virtuosity, that would have been difficult to imagine in Seville a quarter of a century ago. ...Her performance is to be discovered: she faces three extremely demanding concertos in an astonishing and marvelous lesson of good taste, knowledge of the style, its articulatory demands, its needs in terms of flexibility with the tempo, and the application of ornamentation.      -- Andrés Moreno Mengíbar, DIARIO DE SEVILLE• January 22, 2022 "*Jeffrey Cohan* interpreted *Bach's music* entirely according to its inner essence, supple, yet far from effective refinement. ...If somewhere, at some point, a sound, a melodic arc touched the heart, it was born of skillfully declamatory phrasing and the dynamic unfolding of the line.      —BERNER ZEITUNG "In this composition [*J.S. Bach's Suite in G major*, originally for cello)], the flutist's [*Jeffrey Cohan*'s] full talent was revealed. In his interpretation, all the compositional subtleties were audible. He placed particular emphasis on developing the latent polyphony. He also took all the agogic liberties that such a solo part requires to come alive." —WOLFENBÜTTELER ZEITUNG "Chamber Music In the Key of We"  (headline)      Baroque flutist *Jeffrey Cohan* and harpsichordist *George Shangrow* give new meaning to the intimacy implicit in the genre of chamber music... They have forged not only an exquisitely subtle collaboration but also a common scholarly interpretation of how *Bach* would have had the music performed. They responded intuitively to each other's rhythmic elasticity and echoed each other's elaborate ornamentations with what sounded like spontaneous inspiration... Almost as impressive was the silent attentiveness that their musicmaking commanded. *     Bach* may have been composing for a soft instrument with a very limited dynamic range, but the music he produced was exuberant, joyous and lyrical. It was these qualities that Cohan and Shangrow communicated..."      -- Joan Reinthaler, THE WASHINGTON POST• July 16, 2002/ /              ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ ***Mason United Methodist Church*    2710 North Madison Street in Tacoma *www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma* <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>      — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) — 18 and under free              ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ /// Irene Roldan Bach & Scarlatti //PICE IC/E//Consulate of Spain//Irene Roldàn’s participation in these performances has been made possible with help from the Honorary Consulate of Spain in Seattle, and from the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), which seeks to promote Spanish culture through the inclusion of Spanish artists and creators residing in Spain in the programming of cultural events outside of Spain. /