Past Performances

Italian Baroque- Passion and Elegance, January 2025

The Mostly Baroque Chamber Ensemble performed masterworks from Baroque Italy including 17th Century Songs, the Corelli Christmas Concerto and Vivaldi's Winter concerto for violin from the Four Seasons. Soprano Samantha Riling-Lopez performed several 17th century songs as well as songs of Paolo Tosti. Maestro Hartman performed the solo violin part in the Winter Concerto and Miriam Stern joined him in the performance of the concertante parts in the Corelli Concerto. Performances were presented at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Coral Gables on January 8, and at St. John's on the Lake, Miami Beach on January 10, 2025.

New York Debut- Jan. 10, 2025, Opera America

The Soliloquy and the Moon: the Artistry of Johan Hartman

Mostly Baroque takes great pleasure in presenting Bass-baritone and composer Johan Hartman and collaborating and award-winning Edinburgh-based pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead in their New York City debut performing a program of diverse works for voice and piano on Jan. 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM at Opera America, 330 7th Avenue, NYC, 10001. This exciting new duo made their debut at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in two performances which received glowing critical (Excellent Show) as well as rapturous audience reception. The Fringe Review wrote "Hartman is an exciting new voice on the opera scene, both as a dramatic performer and as a composer." Works to be performed include several selections from Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, opera arias by Mozart and Rossini as well as others and the New York debut of Mr. Hartman’s own song cycles, Blood and the Moon (WB Yeats) and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (R Browning).

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024

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.

Handel's Messiah at St. Thomas Episcopal Church 2023

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.

A Game of Werewolf at the Seminole Theater Nov. 2022

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.

In the Light of Angels Oct. 2022

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.