Join us for three Mostly Baroque Festival Concerts at the Arsht Center Carnival Studio Theater

Join Mostly Baroque for three exciting concerts at the internationally recognized concert venue the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.  On Feb. 26, Maestro David Hartman will lead the Mostly Baroque Chamber Orchestra in a concert featuring JS Bach's beloved Brandenburg Concertos #2, 3 and 4 as well as works by Vivaldi and Telemann. We are thrilled to present nationally recognized and frequent collaborator trumpet virtuoso Brian Neal in the famous Concerto #2 along with soloists Flautist Elissa Lakofsky, Oboist Peggy Hartman and Maestro Hartman on violin.  Elissa Lakofsky and Karen Fuller, flautists will join Maestro Hartman, violin in the effervescent Concerto #4 for Violin and two Flute soloists. 

Rising American opera star and composer bass-baritone Johan Hartman and pianist Stephen Scarlato will perform a voice and piano recital on Feb. 27.  Works to be performed include Gerald Finzi's lovely "Let us Garlands Bring" and Jacques Ibert's piquant "Chansons de Don Quichotte" along with Mr. Hartman's own settings of poems by WB Yeats, "Blood and the Moon" and Robert Browning's comical "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister".

The festival culminates with a performance of Giovanni Pergolesi's opera buffa masterpiece "La Serva Padrona" on March 1.  Mezzo-Soprano Yi-Chun Sarah Tsai will join Johan Hartman and the Mostly Baroque Chamber Opera Orchestra in this performance. Special guests will be the Miami Oratorio Society performing acapella Spirituals, "Praise the Lord" by the great African American composer Florence Price and excerpts from Handel's Messiah with the Mostly Baroque Chamber Orchestra.