Haydn Trios ~ Salish Sea Early Music Festival

WHAT: TRIOS BY FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN WHEN: Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM WHERE: St. Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Church at 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma ADMISSION: suggested donation: $20 to $30 (a free will offering), 18 & under free. MORE INFO: please see www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma The music (and magic) of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is to be celebrated in “Trios by Franz Joseph Haydn”, our fourth program of the 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival featuring Jeffrey Cohan on 8-keyed flute, baroque violinist Lindsey Strand Polyak and baroque cellist Martin Bonham in a program of late 18th-century trios by Haydn and his contemporaries and friends performed on period instruments. As the most celebrated composer in all of Europe for much of his career, Franz Joseph Haydn was Mozart’s mentor and friend as well as Beethoven’s tutor. The program will include three trios for flute, violin and cello by Haydn, selections from a 1795 arrangement for these instruments of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, and a trio by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a friend of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven who published music by all three. Presented in collaboration with St. Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Church, the concert will take place on Monday evening, March 25 at 7:00 PM at St. Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Church at 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma. Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma. Please see our complete list of all remaining performances (all Mondays at 7 PM) in Tacoma through early July below. ~ + ~ + ~ Violist LINDSEY STRAND-POLYAK divides her time between viola and violin and homes in Los Angeles and on Whidbey Island. Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Summer Baroque Workshop, she appears with Baroque Music Montana, Bach Collegium San Diego, Musica Angelica, Sinfonia Spirituosa, Bitterroot Baroque, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar and the Oregon Bach Festival, Byron Schenkman & Friends, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and as principal violist with Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She also serves on the boards of Early Music Seattle as the SBO liaison and Pacific Northwest Viols, and holds a PhD/MM in musicology and violin performance from UCLA. Baroque cellist MARTIN BONHAM was a member of the Victoria Symphony for many decades, also plays viola da gamba, and was Music Director of the Pachelbel Players, Island Chamber Players, Chamber Music Victoria and Eine Kleine Summer Music. As a member of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, The Musick Masters, and Les Violes de Sainte-Columbe, he has made numerous radio performances and appearances in Canada and the Northwest US. As a faculty member of the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music, he has led workshops on Baroque string technique. Baroque flutist JEFFREY COHAN is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and has performed in 25 countries on flutes from the renaissance through the present. ~ + ~ + ~ Remaining 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival at St. Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Church: — Monday, March 25 at 7:00 PM: • Haydn Trios • Classical chamber music with Lindsey Strand-Polyak on both violin and viola, cellist Martin and Jeffrey Cohan, 8-keyed flute — Monday, April 8 at 7:00 PM: • Cantata & Lieder • soprano Arwen Myers, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan — Monday, May 6 at 7:00 PM: • Psalms (1620) & Irish (1720) & Folksong (1820) • Oleg Timofeyev on renaissance lute and 7-string guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on renaissance, baroque and 8-keyed flutes — Monday, May 27 at 7:00 PM: • Baroque Concerti • harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie, violinist Carrie Krause, violinist Elisabeth Phelps, violist Victoria Gunn, cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer & Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute — Monday, June 24 at 7:00 PM: • The 18th-Century Harpsichord in Spain • Irene Roldan, solo harpsichord — Monday, July 1 at 7:00 PM: • Johann Sebastian Bach • harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷ ✣ ✷

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