Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Concerti by J.S. & C.P.E. Bach, Vivaldi, & Aubert, with orchestra
Free (suggested donation: $20-$30; ages 18 & under free)
- Carrie Krause, solo violin
- Jeffrey Cohan, solo flute
- Jonathan Oddie, solo harpsichord
- Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, violin
- Courtney Kuroda, violin
- Victoria Gunn, viola
- Martin Bonham, cello
Antonio Vivaldi — Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 "La Notte"
Jacques Aubert — Selected works (concerto for solo violin & orchestra TBA)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Flute Concerto in D minor, H. 484.1
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents baroque concerti with orchestra from France, Germany and Italy in Concerti by Bach, Vivaldi, and Aubert with violin, flute, and harpsichord soloists and orchestra featuring musicians from Montana, Canada, Washington, California, and Oregon, in this seventh program in this year's festival of early music performed on period instruments.
Baroque orchestral music from Germany, France, and Italy from the early 18th Century featuring soloists Carrie Krause (violin), Jeffrey Cohan (flute), and Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord) to be included are the Triple Concerto in A minor for harpsichord, flute, violin and orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach, alongside Antonio Vivaldi's Flute Concerto "La Notte" ("The Night"), Jacques Aubert's Violin Concerto, and the Concerto in D minor by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Musicians in the orchestra will include violinists Elisabeth Phelps and Courtney Kuroda, violist Victoria Gunn and cellist Martin Bonham.
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give ten performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, May 22-28; the 2024 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.
About Carrie Krause, solo violin
Concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony and founder of Baroque Music Montana, violinist Carrie Krause studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Juilliard, has performed for many of the prominent ensembles and festivals in America and throughout Europe, and is an avid adventurer and prize-winning marathon runner.
http://www.carriekrause.com/teaching-studio.phpAbout Jeffrey Cohan, solo flute
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, who the Boston Globe calls "The Flute Master," has performed in 25 countries 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. The only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium and in the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston, two of the most prestigious prizes for performers of early music on period instruments, he has premiered new music by many American and European composers. Jeffrey Cohan directs the Cascade Early Music Festival, the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, and the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival. The New York Times has heralded his ability to "play several superstar flutists one might name under the table."
https://www.jeffreycohan.com/About Jonathan Oddie, solo harpsichord
Jonathan Oddie is a rare synergy of musician and scholar. In demand across the United States as a versatile performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and continuo organ, he works with such leading musicians as violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky and flutist Janet See, and orchestras including Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Mr. Oddie, currently visiting assistant professor of music in historical performance: historical keyboards at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford, where he researched the instrumental music of English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), and has published articles in the scholastic journals Early Music and Historical Performance. His awards include a Performer's Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music and a Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship. Oddie studied piano and harpsichord at Indiana University, where his teachers included Elisabeth Wright, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Edmund Battersby.
https://www.facebook.com/j.j.oddieAbout Elizabeth "Libby" Phelps, violin
About Victoria Gunn, viola
About Martin Bonham, cello
Baroque cellist Martin Bonham was a member of the Victoria Symphony for many decades, also plays viola da gamba, and was Music Director of the Pachelbel Players, Island Chamber Players, Chamber Music Victoria, and Eine Kleine Summer Music. As a member of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, The Musick Masters, and Les Violes de Sainte-Columbe, he has made numerous radio performances and appearances in Canada and the Northwest US. As a faculty member of the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music, he has led workshops on Baroque string technique.
https://victoria-baroque.com/the-players/martin-bonham/