Submitted by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

We are very excited to announce that our special guests, Ukrainian Olena Zhukova, coming directly from Kyiv, Canadian viola da gambist Susie Napper and Canadian player of pardessus de viole Mélisande Corriveau, both coming from Montreal, will join baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in presenting “France and Italy: Pardessus, Gamba, Flute and Harpsichord” on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Chapel.

The program, for this most unusual and exquisite ensemble of instruments that would have been commonplace during the early decades of the 18th century in France, will include music by Louis-Antoine Dornel, Louis and Françoise Couperin, Archangelo Corelli, André Cheron and Marin Marais and will demonstrate the stylistic chasm between the French and Italian styles that was debated in France during the early 18th century.

Admission is by a suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 and under are free. All are welcome regardless of donation.

Tate Cohan photo. Jeffrey Cohan.

Contributed photo. Olena Zhukova.