Salish Sea Early Music Festival Matinee Concert SAT 6/13!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 12:49 pm
Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldán has been wowing audiences around the Puget Sound since her arrival from Switzerland last week and we look forward to welcoming her in Twisp!
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH and ÉLISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE:
Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan will present "Johann and Jacquet", a program of music for baroque flute and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach and Jacquet de la Guerre. The event will be held at The Confluence Gallery, and is a collaboration between The Confluence, Cascadia Music and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30 and all are welcome regardless of donation. 18 & under are free.
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS:
Born 20 years before Johann Sebastian Bach and a favorite composer of Louis XIV, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre made many important contributions in her compositions both for solo keyboard and in the development of the cantata, all the while juxtaposing and integrating the distinct French and Italian styles, all of which set the stage for similar techniques and forms that Bach was later to use extensively and develop further.
The program will include the sonatas in E Major and G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the performers’ transcription for flute of Bach’s violin sonata in C Minor, the Sonata in D Major by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and harpsichord solos including Jacquet de La Guerre’s Prélude in D Minor, La Zaïde by Pancrace Royer, and the Suite in F Major by Louis Couperin.
ABOUT IRENE ROLDÁN:
Award-winning harpsichordist Irene Roldán was born in southern Spain in 1997. Described by the press as one of the most prominent Spanish harpsichordists on the international scene (ABC Sevilla), Irene currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. She gained international recognition in 2021, when she won first prize, never previously awarded in this competition, as well as the audience prize at the III. International Harpsichord Competition «Città di Milano». In the same year, her ensemble Flor Galante secured the first prize at the IV. International Bach Competition in Berlin. One year later, Irene was honored with the prestigious Bach Prize and an additional special award at the XXXIII. International Bach Competition held in Leipzig, Germany.
ABOUT JEFFREY COHAN:
Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. He has won the Erwin Bodky Award (Boston) and the top prize in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua (Brugge, Belgium), two of the most important prizes for period instrument performance in America and Europe. He has premiered many concerti and other works by Slovenian and American composers, and is artistic director for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. He can “play many superstar flutists one might name under the table” according to the New York Times, and is “The Flute Master” according to the Boston Globe.
For more info please visit: www.salishseafestival.org/twisp
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH and ÉLISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE:
Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldàn and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan will present "Johann and Jacquet", a program of music for baroque flute and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach and Jacquet de la Guerre. The event will be held at The Confluence Gallery, and is a collaboration between The Confluence, Cascadia Music and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30 and all are welcome regardless of donation. 18 & under are free.
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS:
Born 20 years before Johann Sebastian Bach and a favorite composer of Louis XIV, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre made many important contributions in her compositions both for solo keyboard and in the development of the cantata, all the while juxtaposing and integrating the distinct French and Italian styles, all of which set the stage for similar techniques and forms that Bach was later to use extensively and develop further.
The program will include the sonatas in E Major and G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the performers’ transcription for flute of Bach’s violin sonata in C Minor, the Sonata in D Major by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and harpsichord solos including Jacquet de La Guerre’s Prélude in D Minor, La Zaïde by Pancrace Royer, and the Suite in F Major by Louis Couperin.
ABOUT IRENE ROLDÁN:
Award-winning harpsichordist Irene Roldán was born in southern Spain in 1997. Described by the press as one of the most prominent Spanish harpsichordists on the international scene (ABC Sevilla), Irene currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. She gained international recognition in 2021, when she won first prize, never previously awarded in this competition, as well as the audience prize at the III. International Harpsichord Competition «Città di Milano». In the same year, her ensemble Flor Galante secured the first prize at the IV. International Bach Competition in Berlin. One year later, Irene was honored with the prestigious Bach Prize and an additional special award at the XXXIII. International Bach Competition held in Leipzig, Germany.
ABOUT JEFFREY COHAN:
Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. He has won the Erwin Bodky Award (Boston) and the top prize in the Flanders Festival International Concours Musica Antiqua (Brugge, Belgium), two of the most important prizes for period instrument performance in America and Europe. He has premiered many concerti and other works by Slovenian and American composers, and is artistic director for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. He can “play many superstar flutists one might name under the table” according to the New York Times, and is “The Flute Master” according to the Boston Globe.
For more info please visit: www.salishseafestival.org/twisp