Salish Sea Early Music Festival

The music 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.

There is a suggested donation of $20 to $30 (a free-will offering), 18 & under free.