Salish Sea Early Music Festival on the way
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Submitted by Jeffrey Cohan.
The 2022 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents four exciting performances through the spring at the Orcas Christian School Gym in Eastsound on Orcas Island, its eleventh annual festival of early music. Acclaimed period instrument specialists guitarist Oleg Timofeyev from Iowa, harpsichordist David Schrader from Chicago, viola da gambist Susie Napper from Montreal, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, violinist David Greenberg and many other prominent early music specialists from North America and Canada will participate in chamber music from the Renaissance through Beethoven, all on instruments of the appropriate period.
All concerts take place at 7 p.m. at the Orcas Christian School Gym at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound on Orcas Island. Admission is by suggested donation: $15, $20 or $25 (a free will offering), and those 18 & under are free. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org/orcas.
• Tuesday, March 15: Russian guitar and Beethoven’s Flute for Friends in Ukraine.
• Tuesday, April 26: Concerti: Frederick the Great.
• Tuesday, May 10: The Baroque Quartet
• Saturday, May 28: Brandenburg 5 and Bach Triple.
