Past Performances

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Mostly Baroque marked its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024 with two critically (Fringe Review, Aug. 7, 2024) and popularly acclaimed performances by long time member Bass-Baritone Johan Hartman joined by Edinburgh based pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead at the famous Greyfriars Kirk.  Mr. Hartman performed lieder by Schubert, and songs by Finzi and Barber. He also performed the world debut of his new song cycle Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister based on the humorous poem of the same name by Robert Browning.  Mr. Hartman completed the program with the European debut of his dramatic song cycle Blood and the Moon based on the poem by William Butler Yeats.  

Mostly Baroque presented a special performance of Messiah on Nov. 26, 2023  at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.  Mostly Baroque presented a chorus made up of many Coral Gables Churches along with special guests, the African American chorus The Miami Oratorio Society.  The performance featured many fine local Miami vocal soloists supported by the 14 piece Mostly Baroque Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dr. Eugene Greco. 

Mostly Baroque presented for the first time in Florida, contemporary Boston-based composer Tim Ayres-Kerr 's 'spooky ' comic opera A Game of Werewolf.  Further information can be found in this website under the heading, A Game of Werewolf. 

Mostly Baroque presented together with the combined girls choirs of the Miami Arts School of Miami, the religiously themed cantata In the Light of Angels composed by the well-known American opera composer and movie soundtrack arranger, Thomas Pasatieri.  Mostly Baroque commissioned Maestro Pasatieri to compose this work in the spirit of a JS Bach cantata in 2012.  This was the first performance of the work in South Florida.