A Beethoven Band

Early 19th-century chamber music for flute, violin, viola and cello from Beethoven’s time will be presented on period instruments in A BEETHOVEN BAND on Sunday afternoon, May 31 at 2:00 PM at Bethel Church on Vashon Island, with flutist Jeffrey Cohan playing a flute made in London in 1820, Stephen Creswell on both violin and viola, and Martin Bonham on cello, in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s second Spring Festival program. Please see the complete schedule below.

The program will include trios by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Anton Stamitz, Franz Danzi, Joseph Haydn, and an unpublished trio from the Library of Congress by flutist Pietro Florio.

This fifth annual 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes six programs of 16th to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments on Vashon Island, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the Northwest and the United States and Canada.