Springtime Baroque: Airs for Spring ~ Salish Sea Early Music Festival
“Springtime Baroque: Airs for Spring” is the fifth program in this year’s Salish Sea Early Music Festival and features soprano Arwen Myers, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in a spring-inspired program of music by Handel, Bach, Couperin and others from the first half of the 18th century, performed on instruments with which these musicians would have been familiar. Selections offered in this Springtime Celebration are to include selections from the Easter Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the cantata "Orphée” by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, airs celebrating spring by Toussaint Bordet for soprano with flute, Couperin's harpsichord solos "Les Fauvétes Plaintives" and "La Linote-éfarouchée", both evocative of bird calls, and “Singe, Seele” ("Sing, my soul") and “Flammende Rose” ("Flaming Rose") from Georg Frideric Handel's “9 German Arias”. About the Artists Soprano ARWEN MYERS performs early and modern repertoire with many of the nation’s premiere ensembles including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific MusicWorks, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Seraphic Fire, Bach Akademie Charlotte and Bach Collegium San Diego and has enjoyed working with such notable conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, David Fallis, John Butt, David Hill, Scott Allen Jarrett, Erick Lichte and Matthew Dirst. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Arwen holds advanced degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Alan Bennett and Patricia Brooks Havranek. Based in Portland, Oregon, she is Executive and Co-Artistic Director of Northwest Art Song. Harpsichordist ELISABETH WRIGHT has taught for almost 4 decades at Indiana University School of Music and as one of America's most highly respected harpsichordists has collaborated with numerous artists of international renown. Baroque flutist JEFFREY COHAN is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and has performed in 25 countries on flutes from the renaissance through the present. ~ + ~ + ~ Also at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit: — Monday, May 6 at 12:00 NOON: • Psalms (1620) & Irish (1720) & Folksong (1820) • Oleg Timofeyev on renaissance lute and 7-string guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on renaissance, baroque and 8-keyed flutes — Monday, May 27 at 12:00 NOON: • Baroque Concerti • harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie, violinist Carrie Krause, violinist Elisabeth Phelps, violist Victoria Gunn, cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer & Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute — Monday, July 1 at 12:00 NOON: • Johann Sebastian Bach • harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan
Date and Time
Monday Apr 8, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PDT
Monday noon, April 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Location
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit at 15420 Vashon Highway SW on Vashon Island
Fees/Admission
Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free.