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Bach, Telemann and Handel - Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival
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Press release submitted by Jeffrey Cohan BACH AND TELEMANN CELEBRATE HANDEL"S 250TH ANNIVERSARY The 250th anniversary of the life of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) will be celebrated in the Blackhawk Chamber Music Festival"s BACH AND TELEMANN CELEBRATE HANDEL"S 250TH ANNIVERSARY with mezzo soprano Vivien Shotwell, flutist Jeffrey Cohan, guitarist Oleg Timofeyef and harpsichordist Larry Peterson on Sunday, July 12 at 7:00 PM at Ascension Chapel at Augustana College, at 639 – 38th Street in Rock Island. The suggested donation, a free will offering, will be $15, and students 18 years of age and under are encouraged to come for free. For further information please see www.bhcmf.org. The program will feature 18th-century cantatas for mezzo soprano, flute, guitar and harpsichord including Johann Sebastian Bach"s beautiful well-known cantata Ich habe genug, and the cantata Ihr volker hört by Georg Philipp Telemann from his series of cantatas for each Sunday of the year entitled the Harmonischer Gottesdienst ("the Harmonic Church Service"). The program will also include one of George Frideric Handel"s beautiful Deutsche Arien ("German Arias") for mezzo soprano, flute and accompanying instruments, along with flute sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ Now in its 9th season, the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival offers a midsummer bouquet of chamber music by famous and little-known composers, illuminating many unusual aspects of musical performance from the Renaissance through the present, and sometimes providing an opportunity to hear these works performed on exact replicas of the instruments with which the composers were familiar. Festival repertoire ranges from classical favorites and new works written for the performers to unpublished chamber music from the Library of Congress. The festival brings together artists from the region and other world-class musicians from around the country and abroad. ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ Born in Davenport, artistic director and flutist 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 in addition to 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 returned recently from concerts on early flutes in Germany, and he recently premiered a flute concerto written by for him by a Slovene composer and works for flute and harp by Slovene and American composers in Slovenia and in the US. He lives with his wife and three children in Washington State"s Skagit Valley, where he directs the Cascade Early Music Festival and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC. Jeffrey 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 25 countries, having earned the highest rating from the National Endowment for the Arts. Many works have been written for and premiered by him, including four new flute concerti by American and Slovene composers in the new millennium. He can "play many superstar flutists one might name under the table" according to the New York Times. 
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