Relaxing to the sound of old classics

The Whidbey Island Music Festival offers intimate baroque and classic concerts around the island.

Though roughly halfway through the Whidbey Island Music Festival, baroque and classical music enthusiasts can still grab tickets to enjoy eight more concerts in intimate indoor and outdoor locations around the island.

Ensemble Artifice will perform “A Garden of Musical Delights” from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 22, at Coupeville High School. The performance is inspired by works from Johann Pachelbel’s “Musikalischer Ergötzung” — which in German means “musical delights” — mostly known for the popular wedding song “Canon in D.”

Organist Henry Lebedinsky will perform works from Johann Sebastian Bach, Pachelbel, Georg Böhm, Dieterich Buxtehude and Louis Marchand. This organ recital will take place at St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods Episcopal Church in Freeland on Sunday, Aug. 6, from 3 to 5 p.m.

For “The Orphan, the Fencer and the Genius,” violinists Tekla Cunningham — who founded the festival in 2006 — and Katherine Kyme will perform works by composers Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Joseph de Bologne and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The show is free and will take place at the Coupeville waterfront Wednesday, Aug. 9, from 4 to 5 p.m.

The same event will return on Saturday, Aug. 12, at Whidbey Farm and Market’s courtyard, where guests can eat ice cream or sip a cup of coffee. Once again free of charge, the show is from 1 to 2 p.m..

Grammy-nominated cellist William Skeen will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s six cello suites on two different dates — the festival’s closing events. The first show will take place at St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 7 to 9:15 p.m.; the second at Cultus Bay Gardens on Sunday, Aug. 13, from 3 to 5:15 p.m.

For more information, visit whidbeyislandmusicfestival.org/festival-events.