✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷   — Monday, May 6, 2024 at 7:00 PM: • Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque & Folk Song •   — Oleg TImofeyev (lute, baroque guitar and 1820 guitar)   — Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance descant, tenor and bass, baroque and 8-keyed 1820 flutes) *   St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church *3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma   — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma     ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ A huge thank you to St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church for enabling this opportunity to share this unusual program with you and we hope you will be able to join us tomorrow (Monday) evening! A wide variety of plucked instruments and flutes are to be played in the context of numerous contrasting musical styles, eras and personalities, all unified by the popular music of the appropriate period, including Scottish and Irish airs and jigs from all three centuries, Psalm tunes and Christmas carols and silly popular ditties from the Renaissance, and ländler (popular dances) from Beethoven's Austria, all performed in the context of the "art" music and virtuoso instrumentalists and composers of each period. Descant, tenor and bass renaissance flutes with renaissance lute; baroque flute with an extremely rare but once quite popular wire-strung English guitar made in 1767; and an Eastern European 7-string guitar made in Russia around 1820, alongside an English eight-keyed flute, also made in 1820, are to be heard.       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ About the Artists: *OLEG TIMOFEYEV* is an American guitarist, lutenist and musicologist, best known for his pioneering work in the discovery, promotion, interpretation, and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Russian seven-string guitar.     He began his study of the classical guitar in the early 1980s under the tutelage of Kamill Frauchi in Moscow. In 1989 his musical interests brought him to the U.S., where he studied with Patrick O'Brien, James Tyler, and Hopkinson Smith. He holds an M.A. in Early Music Performance from the University of Southern California (1993), and a Ph.D. in Performance Practice from Duke University.     Timofeyev has performed and taught widely in Europe and the United States. A recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including IREX and Fulbright fellowships, he has taught and lectured at Maimonides State Academy (Moscow), Duke University, the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Smithsonian. His publications include a range of articles on the guitar in Russia, including entries in several standard musical reference works. One of the most prolific Russian guitarists living outside of Russia, he has to date released 12 CD recordings on international labels. *JEFFREY COHAN*, who according to the New York Times can “play several superstar flutists one might name under the table”, has performed 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. He is the only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium, which he won together with lutenist Stephen Stubbs, and the Erwin Bodky Award in Boston - two of the most prestigious prizes for performers on period instruments. He is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. Timofeyev & Cohan