ssemf //Dulcian, Flute and Theorbo/// //Faythe Vollrath / //Annalisa Pappano/// Johann Sebastian Bach// / ********************This Monday evening, *July 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM*: The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents harpsichordist Faythe Vollrath from Sacramento, CA, who will join baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan on Monday at St. Luke's for this mostly-Johann Sebastian Bach extravaganza demonstrating the unparalleled mystery and emotional intensity of Bach’s compositional abilities, featuring transcriptions of his works originally for viola da gamba and another for violin, both with obbligato (or fully written-out) harpsichord in addition to a sonata originally written for flute by Bach with continuo (a bass line with numbers denoting harmonies from which the harpsichordist improvises). Faythe Vollrath will play variations for solo harpsichord by Johann Adam Reinken (1643-1722) on the popular 18th-century German folk tune “Schweiget mir von Weibernehmen” (‘shush, no more talk about womanizing”). Reinken was greatly admired by Bach, who made arrangements of several of his works.  • *Johann Sebastian Bach* •   — Faythe Vollrath (harpsichord)   — Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) *St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church** *3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma   — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish)    — 18 and under free      ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷        Harpsichordist FAYTHE VOLLRATH is actively heard as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal for her “subtly varied tempo and rhythm that sounds like breathing,” her solo performances include venues such as MusicSources in Berkeley, CA, Gothem Early Music in New York City, and Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, VA.        Enamored with the contrast of new music written for historic instruments, Faythe combines new vs. old elements in many of her performances  including concerts of new music in both Serbia and France featuring new American composers, for the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, CA, and for the Center for New Music in San Francisco, CA. She has paired Japanese harpsichord works with Japanese art at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, and has performed in a columbarium as part of the Garden of Memory in Oakland, CA.        Faythe received first prize with an excellence nomination in the Vivaldi International Music Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the Petrichor International Music Competition, both in 2022. Additional awards include first place in the Charleston International Music Competition in 2021, semi-finalist in the 2012 Jurow International Harpsichord Competition, and the 2009 Betchel award recipient presented by the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society. Her duo, Zweikampf, was a finalist in Early Music America’s inaugural Baroque Performance Competition. They have been featured on public radio in both Michigan and Arizona and perform throughout the United States. Faythe received her doctoral diploma from SUNY-Stony Brook under Arthur Haas, and artist diploma from the U of I Urbana-Champaign under Charlotte Mattax Moersch. She earned her Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance from CSU-Sacramento while studying piano with Richard Cionco.