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2012 BLACK HAWK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
~ at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Davenport, Iowa ~
FLUTE
FIESTASaturday, July 21, 2012 at 7:30 PM
A flute
extravaganza
featuring
13
flutes
from
the
renaissance,
the
time
of
Bach,
Mozart,
Beethoven
and
the
present
day
which Jeffrey Cohan
performed
all
over
China
last
month.
The
program
will
include
a
Chinese
piece
modeled
after
famous ancient
Chinese
music
and
an
American
work
with
no
notes
but
plenty
of
music.
Proceeds
benefit
the
remaining
concerts. A unique program that you won't hear anywhere else!
BEETHOVEN
to
MODERNSunday, July 22, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Jeffrey Cohan ~ 8-keyed & modern flute • Oleg Timofeyev ~ guitars from 1815 & today
Music
and
instruments
from
Beethoven's
time, the golden age of the guitar-flute duo,
to
jazz-laced works of modern
times on modern instruments.
BACH
for
BIXSaturday, August 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Ann Harley ~ soprano • Jeffrey Cohan ~ flute • Christine Rutledge ~ viola,
Gregory Hand ~ harpsichord • Oleg Timofeyev ~ guitar & viola da gamba
An
innovative
program
of
transcriptions
for
new
instrumental
combinations
including
Ich
habe
genug,
the
exquisite
cantata
by
the
incomparable
Johann
Sebastian
Bach,
who
like
Bix
Beiderbeck
was
an
improvisational genius.
Trinity Cathedral
www.bhcmf.org • (563) 323-9989
Suggested Donation $15 or $10 • 18 and under free
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
Tickets also available at the door
Canadian
soprano ANNE
HARLEY
is a specialist in both baroque and contemporary music and has
premiered works by many composers. She performs in North America,
Europe and Asia as a recitalist and has appeared as a soloist with
Opera Boston, The American Repertory Theatre, The Handel & Haydn
Society, Boston Camerata, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the North
Carolina Symphony and at the Tanglewood Festival. She débuted in
Europe at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw as the lead in Handel’s Acis
and Galatea and created leading roles in the modern-day première of
Royer’s Le pouvoir de l’Amour in conjunction with the Centre de
Musique Baroque de Versailles. The Boston Globe acclaimed her
performance as “vocally and dramatically outstanding.” The
Village Voice described her performance with the Finnish Tero
Saarinen Dance Company and the Boston Camerata as transmitting a
“heart-wrenching purity.” In 2009-10, she performed the lead role
of Margaret Mead in the world and US premières of Evan Ziporyn’s A
House in Bali with Bang-On-A-Can in Bali, Boston and New York (BAM).
Her latest project, VoicesOfThePearl, commissions artists and
composers to create song cycles and multimedia pieces to texts by and
about female mystical experience from traditions around the world.
She
obtained the doctorate in Historical Performance at Boston
University, and is codirector of Russian early music
ensemble,TALISMAN, which won the Noah Greenberg Award in 2001 and
released its first CD on Dorian to acclaim in Gramophone and EMA.
They have since released several more recordings of early Russian and
Russian Roma (Gypsy) music with major labels. Her solo performances
are available on Hänssler Profil, Naxos, Sony Classics, Dorian,
Canteloupe, Musica Omnia and BMOP/sound. Please
see www.anneharley.com.
Artistic
director
JEFFREY
COHAN
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. He has
received
international
acclaim
both
as
a
modern
flutist,
and
as
one
of
the
foremost
early
flute
specialists.
The
only
person
to
win
both
the
Erwin
Bodky
Award
(Boston),
and
the
top
prize
in
the
Flanders
Festival
International
Concours
Musica
Antiqua
(Brugge,
Belgium),
he
won
First
Prize
in
the
Olga
Koussevitzky
Young
Artist
Competition,
and
has
performed
in
26
countries,
having
earned
the
highest
rating
from
the
National
Endowment
for
the
Arts.
Many
works
have
been
written
for
and
premiered
by
him,
including
five
new
flute
concerti
by
American
and
Slovene
composers
in
the
new
millennium.
Born
in
Davenport,
Jeffrey
Cohan
graduated
from
Rock
Island
High
School
and
performed
solo
concerti
with
the
Tri-City
Youth
Symphony
under
the
direction
of
James
Dixon,
with
the
Clinton
Symphony
under
William
Henigbaum,
and
with
the
Rock
Island
High
School
Band
under
Donald
Kruzan.
He
was
Artist-in-Residence
at
Augustana
College
from
1983
to
1988,
during
which
time
he
also
taught
flute
at
Indiana
University
in
Bloomington
and
gave
many
performances
in
Ascension
Chapel
and
yearly
Candlelight
Christmas
Concerts.
He
has
also
taught
at
the
University
of
Northern
Iowa
and
at
Grinnell
College.
His
mentor
while
in
the
Quad
Cities
was
and
continues
to
be
flutist
Walter
Haedrich
of
Moline.
Jeffrey
performs
each
year
in
Europe,
most
recently
in
Germany,
Ukraine
and
Slovenia,
and
he
performed and gave masterclasses throught China last month (June,
2012). He
lives
with
his
wife
and
three
children
in
Washington
State’s
Skagit
Valley,
where
he
also
directs
the
Cascade
Early
Music
Festival
and
the
Capitol
Hill
Chamber
Music
Festival
in
Washington,
DC.
For
more
information
please
see
www.jeffreycohan.com.
~ revised on July 7, 2012 ~