Past Performances
Season One 2005-2006
October 2005: Lots of Lutes: Lutenists Richard Kolb and Deborah Fox perform
duets on an amazing variety of lutes, demonstrating the vitality of the plucked string
January 2006: The Poetic Muse: Laura Heimes, Soprano, Jamie Bobb, harpsichord, Richard Kolb, archlute, Deborah Fox, theorbo. Lute songs, cantatas, and arias for the dramatic yet intimate soprano voice.
May 2006: Pegasus in Italy: The Pegasus String Band (Rachel Evans and Boel Gidholm, violins, Lisa Terry, viol, Deborah Fox and Richard Kolb, lutes) explores the exhilarating virtuoso repertoire of Italian music—Uccellini to Vivaldi– for two violins, two lutes, and cello.
Season Two 2006-2007
October 2006: Have Oboe, Will Travel. Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe, with Christel Thielmann, viola da gamba, James Bobb, harpsichord, and Deborah Fox, theorbo. The oboe sings of exotic lands past and present in a concert of baroque music and new Australian music for solo oboe. This concert will combine the old and the new in a most interesting way! Music by Handel, Telemann, Couperin, Edwards, and Cornwell.
December 2006: Pegasus in Love. Colleen Liggett, soprano, Kath Anderson, poet, and Deborah Fox, renaissance lute. A program of Elizabethan lute songs and solos, mingled with love poetry from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Love hasn’t changed much through the centuries, and we explore its rhymes and rhythms with humor, passion, and sensitivity. Music by Dowland and Campion; poetry by Shakespeare, Neruda, Yeats, Lee, and more.
January 2007: Special Event concert: Paul O’Dette. We are privileged to present our own local world-renowned virtuoso in his only Rochester solo appearance this year, co-sponsored with the Music Department of Nazareth College. One performance only, in the new concert space of Linehan Chapel on the Nazareth Campus—acoustically gorgeous, still intimate!
May 2007: La Primavera. Laura Heimes, soprano, Dana Maiben, violin and harpsichord, Deborah Fox, theorbo and baroque guitar. The improvisational sparks will fly in this program of unusual Italian baroque treats for voice and violin. Music by Barbara Strozzi, Quagliati, Monteverdi, Marini, and others.
Season Three 2007-2008
September 2007: Special Event Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
“Extraordinary and immensely expressive” –Boston Globe This young brilliant pianist already has a pile of awards, honors, and reviews to his name. Recently graduated summa cum laude from The Eastman School of Music, Kristian Bezuidenhout has performed all over the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras. He has the gift of making music of the classical era sound spontaneous, new, and exciting.
October, 2007: A European Tour Julie Andrijeski, Rachel Evans, and Boel Gidholm, violins and violas; Lisa Terry, cello and viola da gamba; Deborah Fox and Richard Kolb, lutes
The Pegasus string band takes you on a voyage through Europe, with lively dance music and suites from England, Austria, France, Germany, and Italy.
January, 2008: Italians in the Fountain Court Robert Mealy, violin; Lisa Terry, cello and viola da gamba; William Porter, organ; Deborah Fox, theorbo. Pegasus joins the magnificent baroque organ in a program of Italianate chamber music in the evocative atmosphere of the Fountain Court. Music of Buxtehude, who wasn’t really Italian, and other real Italians of the 17th century! A collaboration with the Eastman School of Music. Concert location is the Memorial Art Gallery.
April, 2008: Myths and Mortals Phillip Anderson, tenor; Colin St. Martin, baroque flute; James Bobb, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo. The expressive flute and dynamic tenor voice are a warm combination in this program of French and English music. A cantata by Campra to honor the great musician Arion, earthy and divine songs of Purcell, and a variety of character pieces!
Season Four 2008-2009
September 2008: Bohemian Rhapsody: Glorious Baroque Music for Strings and Trumpets. An ensemble of 10 musicians performing music of Germany and Austria; collaboration with NYS Baroque, concerts in Ithaca and Syracuse also.
October 2008: The Three Ladies: Laura Heimes, Nell Snaidas, Hai-Ting Chinn, sopranos; James Bobb, harpsichord, Deborah Fox, Richard Kolb, lutes. Italian 17th century virtuoso music for 3 woman singers—dazzling!
November 2008: Dryden in Music: a special free concert presented in collaboration with University of Rochester’s Humanities Project. Laura Heimes and Bess Philips, sopranos, Jonathan Wetherbee, actor, Rosemary Elliot, cello, James Bobb, harpsichord, Deborah Fox, lute. Music by Purcell, Handel, and others set to texts by John Dryden, as part of the conference “Restoring Dryden: Music, Translation, and Print”.
February 2009: The Lady and Her Echo: Julianne Baird, soprano, Geoffrey Burgess, oboe; Lisa Terry, cello; James Bobb, harpsichord, Deborah Fox, lutes. Music from England, Germany, and Italy written especially for the haunting and divine blend of soprano with oboe.
March 2009: Special Event Mozart Sonatas and Variations: Petra Mullejans, violin, and Kris Bezuidenhout, fortepiano. A recital celebrating the new Harmonia Mundi cd release by this duo, called “scintillating…extraordinarily supple and eloquent” by the Boston Globe. A collaboration with Downtown ArtsLink
May 2009: The Bard and the Bachelor: Brigitt Markusfeld, actress, and Deborah Fox, lute. The complexity and beauty of Shakespeare’s words matched with sublime music for the lute by his contemporaries. An intimate Elizabethan event!
Season Five 2009-2010
September 2009 Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin with Peter Bennet, harpsichord and organ, and Deborah Fox, theorbo. This dynamic English-Australian virtuoso violinist brings a sparkle to everything she plays, which will include Bach (for the first time yet in Pegasus history!) and early 17th century Italian music by Castello, Marini, and Cima.
October 2009: Tears and Triumphs: Music for the Virgin Queen, a collaboration with NYS Baroque Laura Heimes, soprano; Julie Andrijeski, violin; David Morris, Lisa Terry, Heather Miller Lardin and Motomi Igarashi, viols; Deborah Fox, lute. A concert of music for viols, violin, lute, and soprano centered around Dowland’s famous pieces for viol consort and lute solo, Seaven Teares. Dance music for consort, for solo lute, and lute songs also to be included—music by Dowland, Holborne, Byrd, and other Elizabethans.
January 2010: Music and Medicine: Laura Heimes, soprano;Boel Gidholm, violin; Christel Thielmann, viola da gamba; James Bobb, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, lutes. A chamber music concert with Pegasus artists celebrating Rochester’s medical community, and exploring the programmatic intersections of music and medicine. Program will include selections such as the Marais Gall Bladder Operation, Purcell’s Mad Bess, and other works dealing with the humors, madness, and assorted illnesses.
May 2010: Characters of the Dance: Paige Whitley-Baugess, baroque dancer, and an ensemble of 6 players, directed by Julie Andrijeski, violin. Program to include French dances such as Chaconne by Lully, Airs by Campra, Entrée Espagnole, Menuet, La Matelotte, and a Commedia dell’Arte Suite to music by Schmeltzer. A public dance workshop was offered to go along with this concert.
Season Six 2010-2011
October 2010: An English Treasury: Laura Heimes, soprano; Deborah Fox, lute and theorbo. There is nothing as intimate as the lute song; soprano Laura Heimes and lutenist Deborah Fox paired up for a special program of English music including Dowland, Lawes, Lanier, Purcell.
November 2010: Ciaconna! Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin; Rachel Evans, Boel Gidholm, violins; Christopher Haritatos, cello; Michael Beattie, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo and guitar. Elizabeth Wallfisch, charismatic violinist, returned in an ensemble program for strings, lutes, and harpsichord. We explored the virtuosic repertoire of several countries, in a program based on the hypnotic musical forms of passacalle, chaconne, and follias.
February 2011: Paul O’Dette, lute. A solo recital by this local musical icon and world-renowned celebrity, with music of Dowland and Bachelar, Elizabethan England’s virtuosos.
March 2011: Terpsicore: Laura Heimes, soprano and José Lemos, countertenor
Julie Andrijeski, Francesca Tortorello, Tracy Cowart, Elena Mullins, Lauren Cooper, dancers;
Scott Metcalfe, Boel Gidholm, violins; Peter Bucknell, viola; Christopher Haritatos, cello; Heather Miller Lardin, bass; Geoffrey Burgess, Owen Watkins, oboes and recorders; Deborah Fox, theorbo; Leon Schelhase, harpsichord. Handel’s Terpsicore (the self-contained Prologue to his opera Il Pastor Fido) as reconstructed by baroque dancer Julie Andrijeski, paired with Handel arias and duets for soprano Laura Heimes and countertenor José Lemos. With historical dance ensemble Ensemble Forlana, and an orchestra of winds and strings led by Scott Metcalfe, violin.
Season Seven: 2011-2012
June 2011: Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano. Since he graduated from the Eastman School of Music, this young fortepianist has been making a huge musical splash world-wide. In preparation for a new recording, Kris presented an all-Mozart program.
October 2011: Pegasus in Spain Laura Heimes, soprano; Christa Patton, harp; Lisa Terry, Heather Lardin, and David Morris, viols; Deborah Fox, lute/vihuela/guitar. A program of of Spanish medieval, renaissance and Baroque music. Dances, romanzas, villancicos, and tonos humanos- colorful, rarely-heard music evoking both Moorish and European influence.
December 2011: Libby & Bach Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin; Rachel Evans, Boel Gidholm, Molly Werts, violins; Boel Gidholm, viola; Christopher Haritatos, cello; Heather Miller Lardin, bass; Michael Beattie, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo. A look at the life of Bach through his music, with readings, and a concert of concertos, chamber music, and solo violin, with the Pegasus String Band.
February 2012: Fioritura: Concertos for the Chamber Steven Zohn, flute; Aldo Abreu, recorder; Jennifer Roig-Francoli, violin; Gonzalo Ruiz, oboe; Anna Marsh, bassoon; Christopher Haritatos, cello; Deborah Fox, theorbo; Michael Beattie, harpsichord. These colorfully scored virtuoso concertos blur the lines between chamber and orchestral music, requiring each player to shift between solo and accompanimental roles. Our program featured favorites from Fioritura’s debut CD and several works new to the ensemble, with music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Boismortier, and others.
May 2012: Songs of Love and War Laura Heimes, soprano; Sumner Thompson and Aaron
Sheehan, tenors; Steven Hrycelak, bass; Julie Andrijeski and Boel Gidholm, violins; Dan Elyar, viola; Christa Patton, harp; Adam Pearl, harpsichord; Deborah Fox, theorbo; Heather Miller Lardin, violone; David Morris, cello/lirone. The drama of love and war, war in love, and love as war! The music of Claudio Monteverdi will be featured in this concert of 17th Century Italian music– a time of experimentation in early Baroque style. Our program included the dramatic Combattimento and the beautiful Lamento de la Ninfa.
