ssemf //Dulcian, Flute and Theorbo/// //Michael Freimuth// / //Annalisa Pappano/// //Renaissance transverse flute, theorbo & guitar / ******************** ~  +  ~  +  ~ — Monday, January 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM at St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church in Tacoma *• THREE CENTURIES: THEORBO, GUITAR & FLUTE • * *Michael Freimuth* (theorbo and renaissance guitar) *    Jeffrey Cohan* (tenor and bass renaissance and baroque transverse flutes) *St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church* is at 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma   — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; please pay as you wish) www.salishseafestival.org/ <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>tacoma <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>                        ~  + ~  +  ~ Three Centuries: Theorbo, Guitar and Flute offers an unusual and expansive journey through the repertoire for guitar, theorbo 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 program will include works by 16th century composers Diego Ortiz, William Byrd, Giovanni Bassano and Girolamo Dalla Casa; 17th-century composers Giovanni Paulo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde and Giovanni Battista Buonamenti; and 18th-century composers Arcangelo Corelli and André Chéron. Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free. All are welcome regardless of donation. We hope to see you at our opening 2024 concert on Monday evening! MICHAEL FREIMUTH, coming from Kiel, Germany, is one of the most sought-after lutenists in Europe. He has toured both as soloist and with many of the most well-known European ensembles, conductors and other soloists in Europe, the USA, Japan and South Korea. Dedicated to the lute and guitar music of the 16th through 19th centuries, 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 played in many opera productions throughout Europe including Cesti’s Orontea, Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, Handel's Jephta, Rodelinda, 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 was released in 2017, and he has recorded significant new lute works found recently in Rohrau Castle by Silvius Leopold Weiss that he helped bring to light. He recorded the entire cycle of Rosary Sonatas by Biber for Deutschlandfunk with violinist Mayumi Hirasaki and harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim, and “L'Arte della scordatura with Mayumi Hirasak”, which was released in 2020.