//William Simms// Susie Napper////Irene Roldan// SSEMF 2025 in Tacoma • William Simms, Susie Napper & ////Irene Roldan// Dear Friends in Tacoma, Our 2025 Tacoma Salish Sea Early Music Festival offers a diverse series of programs spanning three centuries (1525 through 1835) and featuring exciting artists new to SSEMF who come from Kyiv (Ukrainian harpsichordist *Olena Zhukova)*, California (violinist *Elisabeth Blumenstock*), Switzerland (Spanish harpsichordist *Irene Roldàn*), Montreal (viola da gambist *Mélisande Corriveau*), Baltimore (theorbo player *William Simms*) and Washington, DC (viol virtuoso *Tina Chancey*), alongside favorite harpsichordists *Elisabeth Wright* (Bloomington), *Bernward Lohr* (Hannover) and *David Schrader* (Chicago), recorder player *Vicki Boeckman* (Seattle), violist *Lindsey Strand Polyak* (Whidbey Island), violinists *Anne Roehrig* (Hannover), *Elizabeth Phelps* (Seattle) and *Courtney Kurroda* (Los Angeles), bassoonist *Anna Marsh *(Tacoma), viola da gambists *Caroline Nicolas* (New York City) and *Susie Napper* (Montreal), and guitarist *Oleg Timofeyev* (Chicago). We wish you an enlightened 2025, are grateful to Mason United Methodist Church and are so excited to share this music with you! Jeffrey            ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ *Mason United Methodist Church*         2710 North Madison in Tacoma www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>       — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) — 18 and under free            ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ *2025 TACOMA SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL* /~ all concerts except July 9 Mondays at 7:00 PM ~ / Monday,*January 20* at 7:00 PM:  — *THE CANZONA 2025* —    · Vicki Boeckman, renaissance recorders    · Tina Chancey, tenor viol    · Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance transverse flutes    · Anna Marsh, dulcian (renaissance bassoon)           The "Canzonettes" return after two years with an entirely new program focusing on the birth of the Canzona inspired by early 16th-century chansons and evolving into the early 17th-century baroque sonata. Featuring special guest renaissance specialist and innovative improviser Tina Chancey from Hesperus in Washington, DC. Monday, *February 24* at 7:00 PM:  — *THE CHACONNE with LES VOIX HUMAINES* —    · Susie Napper, viola da gamba & treble viol    · Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba & pardessus de viol    · Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque and renaissance flutes           Les Voix humaines, the widely celebrated prize-winning duo of viols from Montreal joins us for a program centering on the chaconne but extending from the early 17th century through Johann Sebastian Bach. Monday, *March 10* at 7:00 PM:  — *THE TRIO SONATA* —    · Bernward Lohr, harpsichord    · Anne Röhrig, violin    · Susie Napper, viola da gamba    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute           Trio sonata mastierpieces by Georg Philipp Telemann, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain and Jean Baptiste Quentin le jeune with our Musica Alta Ripa friends from Hannover. Monday, *March 31* at 7:00 PM: — *HARPSICHORD MYSTERY* —    · Olena Zhukova, solo harpsichord no           The Ukrainian harpsichordist deciphers mysterious and elusive rarities as well as standards for solo harpsichord by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti alongside Ukrainian gems including a harpsichord sonata by Dmitry Bortnyansky. [only in certain locations] Monday, *April 7* at 7:00 PM: — *EUROPEAN TOUR 1690-1790* —    · Olena Zhukova, harpsichord    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute           An excursion through a century of transformation and diversity by decade and culture within the baroque and classical periods, through the perspective of composers for harpsichord and flute from France, Italy, Scotland, Germany and Ukraine. Monday, *May 5* at 7:00 PM: — *The MUSIQUE DE LA CHAMBRE of LOUIS XIV* —    · Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba    · William Simms, theorbo & baroque guitar    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque and renaissance flutes           The King's court musical establishment is to be represented by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jacques Hotteterre, etc., including music designated for the king's bedtime, evening concerts and banquets, with guests from New York and Baltimore. Monday, *May 26* at 7:00 PM: — *CONCERTI from the COURT of FREDERICK THE GREAT *—    · David Schrader, harpsichord    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute    · Elizabeth Phelps, baroque violin    · Courtney Kuroda, baroque violin    · Lindsey Strand-Polyak, baroque viola           A completely new assortment of concerti for harpsichord and flute from the illustrious members of the musical establishment of flutist Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, including CPE Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, and the king himself. Monday, *June 9* at 7:00 PM: — *BEETHOVEN'S FLUTE, VIOLA & GUITAR* —    · Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola    · Oleg TImofeyev, 7-string guitar (Moscow, 1820)    · Jeffrey Cohan, 8-keyed flute (London, 1820)           Repertoire abounds for this popular ensemble during Beethoven's lifetime of guitar, viola and flute. With outstanding violinist and violist Elizabeth Blumenstock. Wednesday, *July 9* at 7:00 PM: — *The 18TH-CENTURY HARPSICHORD IN SPAIN* —    · Irene Roldàn, solo harpsichord           Step into the heart of 18th-century Iberia, where the vibrant court of Madrid stood as a focal point for the flourishing of the rich keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti, Sebastian de Albero, Jose de Nebra, and the Portuguese Carlos Seixas. [only in certain locations] Monday, *July 14* at 7:00 PM: — *JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH* —    · Irene Roldàn, harpsichord    · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute           Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn from Basel and Jeffrey interpret Bach's phenomenal music for flute and harpsichord.                       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ We are forever grateful for your donations <https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate.html> which enable this project entirely.