Feel like escaping the noise of the present time, and traveling back in time to hear three centuries of early music performed on period instruments?

An ongoing monthly series of noon concerts by Salish Sea Early Music Festival, launched last month and continuing through June at Vashon’s Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, will give islanders the experience of doing just that.

The concerts, organized by early music flute specialist, Jeffrey Cohan, will feature a lineup of artists from Ukraine, Spain, Canada, Germany and the United States and Pacific Northwest.

Next up in the series, at 12 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, is “Bach and Telemann: The Chaconne with Les Voix Humanies” — a concert boasting an ensemble of two viola da gambas, pardessus de viol, baroque flute and harpsichord.

Les Voix Humanies, a prize-winning duo from Montreal comprised of Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau, will be joined by harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright and baroque flutist Cohan at the concert.

Corriveau, a rare specialist in the pardessus de viole, is a core member of numerous early music ensembles, and her award-winning discography numbers over 40 titles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the ensemble L’Harmonie des Saisons, whose debut CD release ”Las Ciudades de Oro” (Cities of Gold) was the 2016 winner of the Canadian JUNO Award for best classical CD of the year in the vocal and choral category.

She plays a 1691 Barak Norman viol, a Nathaniel Cross cello from 1700, and a pardessus de viole by Pierre Le Pilleur dated 1755.

Napier is a cellist, gambist, and continuo player who, according to Cohan, is “alternatively praised or admonished for her colorful and sometimes controversial performances of solo and chamber repertoire of the baroque.”

Having studied at Juilliard in New York and at the Paris Conservatoire, Napier founded the Montreal Baroque Festival and has spent decades with a foot on either side of the Atlantic — recording, performing, teaching in Montreal and Copenhagen and touring around the world, often with Les Voix Humaines.

Wright, a harpsichordist, taught for almost four decades at Indiana University School of Music. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and continuo improviser at numerous festivals and concert series around the world, including the Boston and Berkeley Early Music festivals, Tage alter Musik, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart Festival, and many others.

Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries as one of the foremost specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present time. He is artistic director of the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, D.C., the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival in Illinois and Iowa, and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

Upcoming concerts in the 2025 Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s series, all on Mondays at 12 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Spirit, will continue with “The Trio Sonata,” on March 10, with Bernward Lohr on harpsichord; Anne Röhrig on violin; Susie Napper on viola da gamba and Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute.

On April 7, “European Tour 1690-1790,” will feature Olena Zhukova and Cohan playing music for harpsichord and flute composed during the baroque and classical periods in France, Italy, Scotland, Germany and Ukraine.

On May 5, “The Musique de la Chambre of Louis XIV,” will feature Caroline Nicolas on viola da gamba, William Simms on therbo and baroque guitar and Cohan on baroque and renaissance flutes.

On May 26, “Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great,” will present an ensemble of five players in an assortment of concerti for harpsichord and flute from the illustrious members of the king’s musical establishment.

On June 9, “Beethoven’s Flute, Viola and Guitar,” will be played by Elizabeth Blumenstock on viola, Oleg Timofeyev, on a seven-string guitar made in Moscow in 1820, and Cohan on an eight-keyed flute from London, also dated 1820.

The final concert in the series, on July 14, will feature harpsichordist Irene Roldàn, from Basel, and Cohan, interpreting Bach’s music for flute and harpsichord.

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit is located at 15420 Vashon Hwy SW. Salish Sea Early Music Festival concerts are free for ages 18 and younger; a free-will donation (pay as you wish) of $20-$30 is suggested for other audience members.

Visit salishseafestival.org to find out more or donate to support the presentation of these concerts on Vashon.

Harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright (Courtesy photo)