The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present “Russian Guitar & Beethoven’s Flute for Our Friends in Ukraine,” at 12 p.m. Monday, March 14, at Church of the Holy Spirit, on Vashon.

Guitarist Oleg Timofeyev will play a Russian seven-string guitar, made in Russia in 1815, and Jeffrey Cohan will play an eight-keyed flute, made in London in 1820.

The program will include music composed collaboratively by guitarist Louis Ange Carpentras (1786-1852) and flutist Antoine Tranquille Berbiguier (1782-1835), along with works by guitarist Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829), flutist Theodor Gaude (1782-1846), and one of the first modern-day performances of a sonata for flute and Russian seven-string guitar by Czech guitarist Ignaz von Held (1764-1816).

Timofeyev, who is originally from Moscow, and Cohan have performed together in Kyiv and in six cities in the north, south, east and west of Ukraine, where conflict currently rages.

Both have ancestors who lived in Ukraine. For two years, Timoveyev lived with his family and did research in Kyiv, funded by a Fulbright fellowship.

Their concert is dedicated to the love of the Ukrainian national spirit and the love for their country that unites all Ukrainians.

The concert is the first in a series of four Salish Sea Early Music Festivals to be held on Vashon in the coming months, with more concerts slated for 12 p.m. on April 25, May 9, and May 24, at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

A donation of $15, $20 or $25 is suggested for the concerts, with those 18 and younger admitted free. Audience members are required to be masked and vaccinated.

To find out more, visit salishseafestival.org.