The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will launch its 2016 season with the concert “Trios for Guitar, Flute & Viola” at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, at Bethel Church.
The early chamber music group will offer six diverse programs from January through June on Vashon during its sixth annual festival. All the concerts will be played on period instruments by leading early music specialists fromGermany, the Pacific Northwest and across the United States.
Performers will include harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, the organist at St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck, Germany; violinist Ingrid Matthews, who founded and directed the Seattle Baroque Orchestra; harpsichordist Bernward Lohrand 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 seven-string guitar of Beethoven’s time, andflutist and artistic director Jeffrey Cohan.
Monday’s performance will feature Cohan, Timofeyev and Stephen Creswell on violia. The trio will play works by Gaspard Kummer, Antonio Diabelli, Francois Devienne and Wenzeslaus Matiegka.
Mark your calendars for the remaining performances, all of which will be performed at Bethel Church:
“The Baroque Trio Sonatas” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29
“Fortepiano & Flute” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4
“Musical Offering” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 18
“Versailles” at 7 p.m. Monday, May 9
“1800: Virtuoso Guitar & Flute” at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 5.
Admission is by suggested donation of $15, $20 or $25. A series pass is $75, $100 or $125 for six concerts. Those 18 years of age and under are free.
