Trios for Russian Guitar, Flute & Viola
$15-$25 suggested donation
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka — Selected works
François Devienne — Selected works
Antonio Diabelli — Selected works
Jeffrey Cohan, flute
Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
Stephen Crewel, viola
(early 18th-century instruments)
This concert features an instrumental ensemble that was very popular in the early 19th century. Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, guitarist Oleg Timofeyev, and violist Stephen Creswell perform works from Beethoven's time by Gaspard Kummer, Antonio Diabelli, Francois Devienne, and Wenzeslaus Matiegka on an 8-keyed flute made in 1820 with the Russian 7-string guitar and viola.
About the 2016 Salish Sea Early Music Festival
The sixth annual 2016 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents six diverse programs of early chamber music on period instruments in Seattle with leading early music specialists from Europe, the Pacific Northwest and around the United States at Christ Episcopal Church from January through June.
Performers include harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, who is organist at St. Mary's church in Lübeck, Germany to which Bach walked for days to hear Dietrich Buxtehude, violinist Ingrid Matthews who founded and directed the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, harpsichordist Bernward Lohr and violinist Anne Röhrig who teach at German music conservatories in Hannover and Nuremburg, guitarist Oleg Timofeyev who is one of the world's leading exponents of the Russian 7-string guitar of Beethoven's time, and flutist and artistic director Jeffrey Cohan.
Each program is repeated in nine cities around the Salish Sea from Tacoma to Vancouver, BC in a total of 54 performances. [See full calendar here.]