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Salish Sea Early Music Festival LUTE & FLUTE
June 10, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sunday, June 10 at 7:00 PM • please forward
• Lute & Flute: Silvius Leopold Weiss •
Oleg Timofeyev ~ baroque lute
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
In the final 2018 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performance, baroque lutenist Oleg TImofeyev from Iowa City, Iowa and Jeffrey Cohan, on the one-keyed baroque flute, play reconstructions of music by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), the most prolific and highly esteemed lutenist of the baroque who rivaled Johann Sebastian Bach in improvisational skill and worked for more than three decades at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden alongside French flute virtuoso Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1689-1768). Although he wrote much music for obbligato, or fully written out, lute and flute, the flute part has unfortunately been lost but has been reconstructed for this performance. The program will also include music for obbligato lute and flute by Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696-1760) and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739-1796).
Musicologist, guitarist, and documentary film director and composer, OlegTimofeyev was born in Moscow, Russia to a musical family that has given the world several generations of professional musicians. He holds his M.A. in Early Music Performance from USC (1992). In 1999, Timofeyev defended his Ph.D. dissertation “The Golden Age of the Russian Guitar: Repertoire, Performance Practice, and Social Function of the Russian Seven-String Guitar, 1800-1850” at Duke University. Timofeyev plays Renaissance and Baroque lute and Russian seven-string guitar, and has recorded more than 20 CD albums featuring these instruments.
All concerts take place at
St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods Episcopal Church
5217 South Honeymoon Bay Road in Freeland
• suggested donation $15, $20 or $25 • 18 and under free •
www.salishseafestival.org/whidbey