Salish Sea Early Music Festival to present ‘Trios by Franz Joseph Haydn’
Published 1:30 am Tuesday, March 19, 2024
PORT TOWNSEND — The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present “Trios by Franz Joseph Haydn” at noon Friday.
Lindsey Strand-Polyak, violin and viola; Martin Bonham, cellist; and Jeffrey Cohan, eight-keyed flute, will perform at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St. in Port Townsend.
Admission is by a $20 to $30 freewill offering at the door; youths 18 and younger are admitted free.
Haydn was the most celebrated composer in Europe for much of his career. He was a mentor to Mozart and tutored Beethoven.
The program will include three trios for flute, violin and cello by Haydn; selections from a 1795 arrangement of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute;” and a trio by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, friend and publisher of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Strand-Polyak divides her time between viola and violin; she is the director of the San Francisco Early Music Society’s Summer Baroque Workshop and is principal violist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra.
Bonham, a cellist who also plays viola da gamba, was a member of the Victoria Symphony and was the music director of the Pachelbel Players, Island Chamber Players, Chamber Music Victoria and Eine Kleine Summer Music.
Cohan, a Baroque flutist, is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
Remaining performances in the 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival include:
• Cantata and Lieder, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7, soprano Arwyn Myers, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan.
• Psalms, 1620; Irish, 1720; and Folksong, 1820, Oleg Timofeyev, renaissance lute and seven-string guitar, and Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance, baroque and eight-keyed flutes.
• Baroque Concerti, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 26, Elizaveta Miller, harpsichord; Carrie Krause, violin; Elisabeth Phelps, violin; Victoria Gunn, viola; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; and Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute.
• Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 p.m. June 30, harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan.
For more information, including the festival’s full schedule, visit www.salishseafestival.org/porttownsend.
