Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Versailles
$15-$25 suggested donation
John Lenti, theorbo & baroque guitar
Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba
Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
This concert features the music and instruments from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV with John Lenti on theorbo & baroque guitar, Joanna Blendulf on viola da gamba and Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute.
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 calendar of all upcoming Puget Sound performances here.]