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Yoga in the Barn
Leave the world behind and start your weekend right with a truly unique and restorative experience! Your yoga practice takes place in the unforgettable atmosphere of a restored historic dairy barn from the turn of the last century in the heart of Ebey's Landing. 4 dates this year and maybe even more!
Give yourself the gift of movement and presence. Start your weekend right and experience gentle yoga led by Beck Diamond. Move to the sublime strains of baroque music performed live just for you by a variety of WIMF artists.
Yoga in the Barn
Leave the world behind and start your weekend right with a truly unique and restorative experience! Your yoga practice takes place in the unforgettable atmosphere of a restored historic dairy barn from the turn of the last century in the heart of Ebey's Landing. 4 dates this year and maybe even more!
Give yourself the gift of movement and presence. Start your weekend right and experience gentle yoga led by Beck Diamond. Move to the sublime strains of baroque music performed live just for you by a variety of WIMF artists.
Yoga in the Barn
Yoga in the Barn
Leave the world behind and start your weekend right with a truly unique and restorative experience! Your yoga practice takes place in the unforgettable atmosphere of a restored historic dairy barn from the turn of the last century in the heart of Ebey's Landing. At least 4 sessions this summer!
Give yourself the gift of movement and presence. Start your weekend right and experience gentle yoga led by Beck Diamond. Legendary multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen will provide the musical accompaniment to your class.
Yoga in the Barn
Leave the world behind and start your weekend right with a truly unique and restorative experience! Your yoga practice takes place in the unforgettable atmosphere of a restored historic dairy barn from the turn of the last century in the heart of Ebey's Landing. 4 dates this year and maybe even more!
Give yourself the gift of movement and presence. Start your weekend right and experience gentle yoga led by Beck Diamond. Move to the sublime strains of baroque music performed live just for you by a variety of WIMF artists.
The Harpsichord Diaries
Elena discovers a magical book in her grandmother’s attic, The Harpsichord Diaries. Transported through five centuries, she meets eccentric talking harpsichords that bring music and history to life. Internationally acclaimed harpsichordist Elaine Funaro teams up with her twins, professional theater director Eric Love and award-winning animator Andrea Love, to create this unique musical journey.
Handel's Harp
Handel’s youthful genius refreshes our own creativity and joy. His tunefulness, inventiveness and sheer brilliance knows no equal! Pacific MusicWorks returns with a program including arias featuring the harp from Esther and Julius Caesar, trio sonatas by Handel and Roman (the "Swedish Handel") and Handel's beloved Lasica chi'io pianga in an arrangement for harp.
Tess Altiveros, soprano
Bryan Boehnke, recorder
Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin
Maxine Eilander, baroque harp
Ryan Farris, baroque cello and viola da gamba
Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar and lute
Henry Lebedinsky, organ and harpsichord
Bach Cantatas and Concertos
Bach’s cantatas are an endless source of inspiration, comfort and joy. We live in challenging times, and listening to Bach makes everything better. Join us for an afternoon with America’s leading baroque oboist, Debra Nagy, and two renowned Bach singers, Tyler Duncan and Clara Rottsolk, accompanied by a stellar band of baroque specialists. In these cantatas we’ll invite you to sing along in the chorales. Tekla and Debra conclude the program with Bach’s beloved concerto for oboe and violin.
TICKETS
PROGRAM
Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82 by JS Bach
Cantata: Ich bin vergnügt in meinem Glücke, BWV 84, by JS Bach
Cantata: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, by JS Bach
Concerto for oboe and violin and orchestra, BWV 1060 by JS Bach
ARTISTS
Debra Nagy, baroque oboe
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Clara Rottsolk, soprano
Tekla Cunningham, Cynthia Black and Eleanor Legault, baroque violins
Steve Cresswell, baroque viola
Elisabeth Reed, baroque cello
Ross Gilliland, baroque bass and violone
Stephen Price, organ and harpsichord
Bach Cantatas and Concertos
Bach’s cantatas are an endless source of inspiration, comfort and joy. We live in challenging times, and listening to Bach makes everything better. Join us for an afternoon with America’s leading baroque oboist, Debra Nagy, and two renowned Bach singers, Tyler Duncan and Clara Rottsolk, accompanied by a stellar band of baroque specialists. In these cantatas we’ll invite you to sing along in the chorales. Tekla and Debra conclude the program with Bach’s beloved concerto for oboe and violin.
TICKETS
PROGRAM
Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82 by JS Bach
Cantata: Ich bin vergnügt in meinem Glücke, BWV 84, by JS Bach
Cantata: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, by JS Bach
Concerto for oboe and violin and orchestra, BWV 1060 by JS Bach
ARTISTS
Debra Nagy, baroque oboe
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Clara Rottsolk, soprano
Tekla Cunningham, Cynthia Black and Eleanor Legault, baroque violins
Steve Cresswell, baroque viola
Elisabeth Reed, baroque cello
Ross Gilliland, baroque bass and violone
Stephen Price, organ and harpsichord
Baroqu-en Hearts
BAROQU-EN HEARTS: Baroque Music to celebrate the highs and lows of love for Valentine’s Day
Bach Festival 2023: The Italian Concerti
WIMF kicks off the fall season with a Bach Festival, featuring three of J.S. Bach’s most enduring works - the Orchestral Suite in B minor featuring Anthony Allen on baroque flute (which includes the “badinerie"), the beloved A minor violin concerto, and the joyful fireworks of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto. Join us for a reception after the show at the Freeland location of Penn Cove Brewery.
FREE Pop- up concert at Whidbey Farm and Market: the Orphan, the Fencer and the Genius
Grab and ice cream cone and a coffee and enjoy a program of delightful baroque duos for 2 violins by Maddelena Laura Sirmen, Joseph de Bologne, and W.A. Mozart. in the charming courtyard of Whidbey Farm and Market.
This is a FREE family concert!
With Tekla Cunningham and Katherine Kyme, violins
Organ Recital: Bach, Pachelbel, Böhm, Buxtehude, Marchand
Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works remain some of the most beautiful, virtuosic, and powerful music ever written for the instrument. Organist Henry Lebedinsky performs a selection of Bach's masterworks alongside compositions by some of the people who influenced him the most - including Pachelbel, Böhm, Buxtehude, and Marchand - on the 1997 Martin Pasi tracker organ at St. Augustine's in-the-woods Episcopal Church in Freeland.
"[with regard to playing the organ] There is nothing to it. You simply strike the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself." - Johann Sebastian Bach
Ensemble Artifice: A garden of musical delights
Ensemble Artifice returns with a garden of musical delights from the 17th century. Inspired by Johann Pachelbel’s collection “Musikalischer Ergötzung” (Musical Delights), Ensemble Artifice explores the singular beauty of this wonderful repertoire. Even if you’ve never been to a classical or early music concert, you know Pachelbel from his famous “Canon in D”. If you love the Canon in D, you’ll love the soul stirring beauty of this repertoire for soprano, strings and continuo from Buxtehude, Becker, Tunder, Rosenmüller, Bernhard and Weichlein.
Ensemble Artifice: A garden of musical delights
Ensemble Artifice returns with a garden of musical delights from the 17th century. Inspired by Johann Pachelbel’s collection “Musikalischer Ergötzung” (Musical Delights), Ensemble Artifice explores the singular beauty of this wonderful repertoire. Even if you’ve never been to a classical or early music concert, you know Pachelbel from his famous “Canon in D”. If you love the Canon in D, you’ll love the soul stirring beauty of this repertoire for soprano, strings and continuo from Buxtehude, Becker, Tunder, Rosenmüller, Bernhard and Weichlein.
Spanish Nights with Sherezade Panthaki and Pacific MusicWorks
Star soprano Sherezade Panthaki returns to the Whidbey Island Music Festival singing arias from Handel’s first opera, Almira. Written when Handel was just 19 years old, Almira was a roaring success, and enjoyed 20 performances in Hamburg when it opened. Pacific MusicWorks performs the most beautiful, most thrilling arias from this early masterwork. Spanish composer Irribaren’s thrilling cantata “Prosigue acorde Lira” rounds out the program along with instrumental works by Corelli, Boccherini, Soler and Pla.
“Panthaki is a new trailblazing type among the new female singers of old music…when she sings it is not simply an aria, it is an event” Hannoversche Allgemeine
Spanish Nights with Sherezade Panthaki and Pacific MusicWorks
Star soprano Sherezade Panthaki returns to the Whidbey Island Music Festival singing arias from Handel’s first opera, Almira. Written when Handel was just 19 years old, Almira was a roaring success, and enjoyed 20 performances in Hamburg when it opened. Pacific MusicWorks performs the most beautiful, most thrilling arias from this early masterwork. Spanish composer Irribaren’s thrilling cantata “Prosigue acorde Lira” rounds out the program along with instrumental works by Corelli, Boccherini, Soler and Pla.
“Panthaki is a new trailblazing type among the new female singers of old music…when she sings it is not simply an aria, it is an event” Hannoversche Allgemeine
The Influencers: J. S. Bach and his circle
Kick off the summer festival season with musical fireworks! J.S. Bach was deeply influenced by his musical milieu which included composers and composers from all over Europe. His circle of influences included Pisendel, concertmaster of Dresden’s legendary orchestra, Telemann, a close friend and penpal, Böhm, one of his teachers and Couperin the famous French composer. Join us for a sparkling afternoon of music for baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord by Bach and the influencers!