PORT TOWNSEND — The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will continue its season at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The concert will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St.
All are welcome; a free will offering donation of $15, $20 or $25 is asked.
Sunday’s performance will feature concerti by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The fifth Brandenburg Concerto; his Triple Concerto for harpsichord, flute, violin and orchestra; the Violin Concerto in A minor and the Suite in B minor for flute and strings will be performed in this all-Bach program of concerti heard by period instrument specialists.
Performing will be Carrie Krause of Bozeman, Mont., on violin; Jeffrey Cohan of Port Townsend on baroque flute; and Jonathan Oddie on harpsichord. Also performing will be Elizabeth Phelps on violin, Courtney Kuroda on violin, Stephen Creswell on viola and Caroline Nicolas on cello.
For nine years, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival has provided period instrument performances in Port Townsend and around the Puget Sound with musicians from Europe and all around the United States and Canada.
Alongside well-loved repertoire, the performers bring modern day premieres of unpublished works and explore unfamiliar musical genres and instrumental textures with a fresh new approach, according to a press release.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is a prolific group performing early music in the Pacific Northwest, with 84 concerts included in the 2019 festival alone.
Future concerts in this Salish Sea Early Music Festival season are:
• June 9 — Early 17th century canzonas: transitional late Renaissance/early baroque chamber music with Anna Marsh (dulcian or renaissance bassoon), Shulamit Kleinerman (Renaissance violin), John Lenti (theorbo and baroque guitar) and Cohan (Renaissance transverse flute).
• June 23 — Late 18th century quartets: Oddie (harpsichord), Creswell (violin and viola), Nicolas (cello) and Cohan (one-keyed flute) perform little-heard quartets by J.C. Bach, Joseph Haydn, C.P.E. Bach and others.
Additional information is available at www. salishsea festival.org/porttownsend.
