// Susie Napper /Tacoma • 2018 /Salish Sea/ Early Music Festival ////SUSIE NAPPER viola da gamba //JEFFREY COHAN /renaissance & baroque flutes/ ////• James Oswald • /////• /Turlough O'Carolan • ///• /Benigne de Bacilly •// //• Jacques Hotteterre •//// //• Giovanni Paulo Cima • //• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck • //Sunday, April 8 at 7:00 PM //*St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church*// 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma/ *Sunday, April 8**at 7:00**PM******* •/_please forward_/ *******• Songs without Words 1550-1750 •** *Susie Napper ~ viola da gamba Jeffrey Cohan ~ /renaissance & baroque flute/**/*s */We're delighted to feature a visit by extraordinary viola da gambist Susie Napper from Montreal in an exploration of vocal-inspired duos for viola da gamba with Jeffrey Cohan playing both renaissance and baroque flutes. This intimate tribute to the power of poetry and song as rendered instrumentally will include Renaissance two-part settings of 16th-century French songs from /Premier Livre de Chansons a Deux Parties/ (1578), virtuoso diminutions for viola da gamba and flute by *Bartholmeo de Selma y Salaverde* on *Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina*'s beautiful madrigal /Vestiva e colli/, selections from *Giovanni Paulo Cima's* /Concerti Ecclesiastici /(1610) and from *Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck*'s /Rimes Francoises et italiennes/, examples of the luscious embellished airs de cour from the time of Louis XIV by*Benigne de Bacilly* (1668) and as embellished by *Jacques Hotteterre* (1721), and favorite Scottish and Irish airs by Irish harper *Turlough O'Carolan* and as interpreted by 18th-century instrumentalists including the Italian flutist and Edinburgh resident *Francesco Barsanti*. Also music by *Johann Sebastian Bach* and *James Oswald*. We hope you'll join us! Please note our remaining performances through June below, with one rescheduled date! (May 24) /All concerts take place at /* **St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church* 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma • suggested donation $15, $20 or $25 • 18 and under free • /www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma//**//* *//* *// /~ Upcoming 2018 Schedule ~ (please note _new date_ for Brandenburg Concerto program on May 24!) Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 7:00 PM at St. Luke's Episcopal Church *• Four Part Canzonas 1585-1625 •* Anna Marsh ~ dulcian Courtney Kuroda ~ violin Stephen Criswell ~ viola Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute – An in-depth exploration of the rarely-heard Italian four-part canzona, inspired by four-part French and Flemish chansons, which blossomed in print from 1582 to 1628 concurrently with increasing activity among violin makers and players in Milan, Brescia and Cremona, and with the emerging "baroque" style. ~ + ~ + ~ Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 7:00 PM *• The Instrumental Air de Cour •* Susie Napper ~ viola da gamba Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute – The intensely moving and intimate vocal French air de cour inspired instrumentalists from the late 16th century and yielded trends that resonated still in the early 1700's. ~ + ~ + ~ Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7:00 PM *• The Capable Virtuoso •* Carrie Krause ~ baroque violin John Lenti ~ theorbo & baroque guitar Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute – Johann Mattheson's "The Capable Virtuoso", published in Hamburg in 1720, sets the tone for this program of trio sonatas inspired by Corelli and the idea that Italian, French, and German styles might be fused in an integrated musical style. ~ + ~ + ~ Thursday, May 24, 2018at 7:00 PM/(new date!)/ *• Bach's Brandenburg Concerto •* Carrie Krause ~ baroque violin Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Jonathan Oddie ~ harpsichord Courtney Kuroda ~ baroque violin Stephen Creswell ~ baroque viola Anna Marsh ~ baroque bassoon – The 5th Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach and other works for flute, violin, harpsichord and string chamber orchestra. ~ + ~ + ~ Monday, June 11, 2018at 7:00 PM *• Frederick the Great •* Jefrey Cohan ~ baroque flute Oleg TImofeyev ~ baroque lute – Slvius Leopold Weiss, the most prolific and highly esteemed lutenist of the baroque and teacher of Frederick the Great, wrote sonatas for obbligato lute and flute from which this program branches out to explore music at the court of the flutist King Frederick II of Prussia. ~ + ~ + ~ /"A world of tender and brilliant magic ...// //A music so refined, it draws and draws, yet never swamps the senses ...// //"...such was the virtuosity and technical brilliance... I couldn't be quite sure I hadn't dreamed it all."/ — Elizabeth Courtney, *Music in Victoria* • islandnet.com/miv /"A lively and challenging programme ...elegant, thoughtful conversation between the instruments ... intellectually gripping and as full of nerve-tingling modulations. ... A widely expressive technique full of nuance and subtlety ... a stylish and very engaging ensemble. Their playing is impeccable in its ornamentation and articulation and sensitive to the emotional core of the music ... but beyond that they play with great verve and obvious delight in the music."/ — Elizabeth Paterson, *Review Vancouver* • reviewvancouver.org /"A remarkably intimate and refreshing experience. There was joy and love aplenty here, quite irresistible in its sense of innocence and spontaneity. Jeffrey Cohan has such quickness and dynamic range, such a keen control of accents, and such mastery at floating the soft limpid phrase that the combination with Stephen Stubbs’ own brand of structural solidity and insight gave us something pretty special indeed."/ — Geoffrey Newman, *Vancouver Classical Music* • www.vanclassicalmusic.com.