• UPCOMING! All performances at Christ Episcopal Church at 4548 Brooklyn Avenue in the University District (except January 25 at the Chapel of St. Ignatius), with repeat performances around the Northwest.

 ~ January 2 at 7:30 PM: Chamber Music 1800 will feature works by Haydn and other composers from the decades around 1800, including unpublished works from the Library of Congress and the Danish National Library, with cellist Martin Bonham (Victoria, BC), Stephen Creswell (Seattle) on violin and viola and flutist Jeffrey Cohan performing on the 8-keyed flute of the period.

 ~ January 25 at St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University: The French Connection will feature the world premiere of Tombeau de Rameau, Joel Durand’s trio for flute, viola and harp, along with arrangements for flute, viola and harp of the excerpts from Jean Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concert upon which the Tombeau de Rameau is based, other works by Durand for solo flute and solo piano and music by Frenchman Henri Dutilleux and American Joan Tower, with harpist Valerie Muzzolini, violist Melia Watras, flutist Jeffrey Cohan and pianist Cristina Valdes. This concert is supported in part by Seattle University and by a grant from 4Culture.

 ~ February 21 at 7:30 PM: The complete Telemann Fantasies for solo one-keyed baroque flute with Jeffrey Cohan.

 ~ March 21 at 7:30 PM: A J.S. Bach Birthday Bash will feature German harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor and German soprano Maike Albrecht, both from Lübeck, in a performance of Bach cantatas No. 209 “Non sa che sia dolore”, and 82a “Ich habe genug” along with harpsichord and flute concerti with baroque orchestra.

 ~ April 24 at 7:30 PM: The New Sans Souci, with flutist Jeffrey Cohan, harpsichordist George Shangrow, violinist Ronald Patterson, violist Roxanna Patterson and others, will feature the world premieres of Robert Kechley’s Circus Show and Huntley Beyer’s The Happy Table, both for solo flute, violin and harpsichord with strings (as in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5), along with Dance Suite by Slovene composer Črt Sojar Voglar, who will be present for the world premiere with soloist Jeffrey Cohan and Philharmonia Northwest of his Flute Concerto on April 26 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Sojar Voglar and Seattle composers Beyer and Kechley will be available for a post-concert discussion of their works.

 ~ Saturday afternoon, May 2 at 3 PM: The mid-18^th century's most delicate and sensitive use of musical color will be the focus of this program featuring the clavichord and entitled Empfindsamkeit, with music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottfried Müthel and others with clavichordist Owen Daly (Salem, Oregon) and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.

In these free twilight performances in one of Seattle's most glorious settings, Jeffrey Cohan performs variations on songs by Giulio Caccini and John Dowland, Christmas carols and Psalm tunes by Jacob van Eyck, performed on a copy of a descant renaissance flute similar to one which he may have played.

In addition to broadcasting melody throughout the city from the bell towers of Utrect, the blind carillonneur played his transverse flute and recorder at ground level in the public gardens and church yard at St. Johns Church for ten years before the city raised  Jacob van Eyck's salary to compensate him for these public serenades on a  more intimate level, as the residents had become so enamored with his improvised virtuoso embellishments on favorite tunes of his day of all sorts. 143 of his largely improvised variations on favorite melodies from Holland and abroad were published in "Der Fluyten Lust-hof" ("The Flutist's Pleasure-Garden") in the 1640s.

From 1725 until 1790, the Concert Spirituel in Paris offered outstanding sacred, orchestral and chamber music performances presented by the leading instrumentalists and composers of Europe, often featuring the most innovative new music of the day. Since the early 1980s Concert Spirituel performances in Seattle and Chicago have featured harpsichordists Elisabeth Wright, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (Germany), David Schrader and John Whitelaw (Belgium), violinists Stanley Ritchie, Ingrid Matthews and Jörg Michael Schwarz, lutenist Stephen Stubbs, gambists Susan Napper and Mary Springfels and baroque cellist Elaine Scott Banks.

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