Montreal-Based Les Voix Humaines, composed of Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau, will perform at the Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Sunday.

Montreal-Based Les Voix Humaines, composed of Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau, will perform at the Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Sunday.

Montreal-based duo to be featured at Early Music Festival

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present “The Chaconne with Les Voix Humaines” at 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Baroque music concert will be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $20 to $30 per person.

The chaconne is a French musical form that was developed during the reign of Louis XIV.

Sunday’s concert wil feature chaconnes by Johan Sebastian Bach and Georg Phillipp Telemann.

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Les Voix Humaines (Human Voices, in French) is a Montreal-based viol duo composed of Susie Napper, who plays the viola da gamba and the treble viol, and Mélisande Corriveau, who plays the viola da gamba and the pardessus de viol.

They will join Elisabeth Wright, on the harpsichord, and festival director Jeffrey Cohan, on baroque and renaissance flutes.

The program includes “Modéré” from Telemann’s Paris Quartet No. 12 in E Minor for flute, pardessus de viole, viola da gamba and harpsichord; Les Voix Humaines’ transcription of Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor for 2 viola da gambas, originally for solo violin; a quartet for two viola da gambas, flute and harpsichord and a second Paris Quartet by Telemann, No. 10; and another Les Voix Humaines transcription, Bach’s Sonata for obbligato harpsichord and violin for pardessus de viol, flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord.

Future performances in the festival include “The Trio Sonata,” March 9; “European Tour 1690-1790,” April 6; “The Musique de la Chambre of Louis XIV,” May 4; “Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great,” May 25; “Beethoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar,” June 8; and “Johann Sebastian Bach,” July 13.

For more information, visit www.salishseafestival.org/porttownsend.

Harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright will join Les Voix Humaine at the Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Sunday.

Harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright will join Les Voix Humaine at the Salish Sea Early Music Festival on Sunday.

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