On May 7 in Eastsound, the 2025 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents its fifth of eight programs at Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church through July of early chamber music performed on period instruments titled “Louis XIV’s Musicians” and featuring viola da gambist Caroline Nicolas from New York City, baroque guitarist William Simms from Baltimore and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.

This program features music by prominent soloists, all composers, who frequently played for Louis XIV, including the king’s guitar instructor Robert De Visée and his Italian predecessor Francesco Corbetta, along with a favorite viola da gambist at the court, Marin Marais and his teacher Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, as well as Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, a young harpsichordist and one of the few famous female musicians of her time whose playing and compositions Louis deeply admired and subsidized. The concert is at 5 p.m. Admission is by suggested donation of $20 to $30.

Aditioal for “Louis XIV’s Musicians”:

San Juan: Saturday, May 3, 12:30 p.m., St. David’s Episcopal Church.

Lopez: Saturday, May 3, 6:30 p.m., Grace Church, 70 Sunset Lane.

William Simms. Contributed photo.