Salish Sea Early Music Festival - Orcas Island Winter Concerts

2026 Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Orcas Island ~ Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries on Orcas Island and around the Salish Sea ~

Presented in collaboration with the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church

* Monday, January 26: — LITTLE EVENING CONCERTS for LOUIS XIV · Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon · Ethan Lin (Seattle), baroque violin · Vicki Gunn (Portland) , baroque viola · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute A remarkable and almost completely unknown manuscript prepared in 1713 by the aging Louis XIV's long­time music librarian André Danican Philidor l'ainé for "little evening concerts for his majesty" was discovered in Paris by Jeffrey Cohan. A new selection of 5 of the 67 suites therein will be presented. 

* Tuesday, February 10: — BAROQUE IN TRANSITION: The ITALIAN and FRENCH PERSPECTIVE · Susie Napper (Montreal), viola da gamba · Olena Zhukova (Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord · Mélisande Corriveau (Montreal), treble viol & viola da gamba · Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance & baroque flutes Les Voix humaines, the widely celebrated prize­winning duo of viols from Montreal joins us for a program illuminating a radically evolving musical perspective through the 17th century. 

* Tuesday, February 24: — A EUROPEAN TOUR · Olena Zhukova (Kyiv, Ukraine), harpsichord · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute Our welcomed guest from Kyiv explores in depth with Jeffrey Cohan the European musical landscape in an excursion through this century of transformation and diversity by decade and culture. 

* Tuesday, March 17: — FOLK, BAROQUE & BEYOND: HOLLAND (1630), SCOTLAND (1750), FRANCE (1830) · Oleg Timofeyev, Lute, English guitar & 7­string guitar · Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance, baroque & 8­keyed flutes The popular psalm tunes of the renaissance, airs of the Scottish baroque and 19th­century opera tunes were all interpreted by prominent composers and performers as illustrated by this completely new and innovative program further traversing unexplored territory in the realm of folk­inspired art music.