Fall 2020 Concert Series
We’re excited to announce our 16th season of innovative online world-class concerts and events. Don’t miss out on what CITY Newspaper calls “early music’s signature concert series”.
Dowland’s Grand Tour: Paul O’Dette, lute
September 25, 2020
@ 7:30 pm ET
September 27, 2020
@ 4 pm ET
Our local world-renowned lutenist performs music of English lutenist John Dowland, as well as the music he encountered on his travels around Europe in the early 17th century. Music by Huwet, Molinaro, Dowland himself, and more. Throughout his career, Dowland showed a keen interest in the music of a wide range of European composers. Beginning […]
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Thorn of the Honey Locust
October 16, 2020
@ 7:30 pm ET
October 18, 2020
@ 4 pm ET
A conversation and reading with Geoffrey Burgess Geoffrey Burgess, oboist, musicologist—and now novelist, discusses and reads from his next book, The Thorn of the Honey Locust. Based on the life of Johann Caspar Gleditsch, a prominent Leipzig musician for whom Bach wrote his most difficult and beautiful passages for oboe, Burgess’s historical novel explores Gleditsch’s career […]
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Beiliang Zhu, baroque cello
November 20, 2020
@ 7:30 pm ET
November 22, 2020
@ 4 pm ET
A Rochester musical icon, award-winning cellist Beiliang Zhu plays an unusual all-Bach program which includes a violin partita played on 5-string cello and the G Major cello suite.
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At the Court of the Sun King
December 11, 2020
@ 7:30 pm ET
December 13, 2020
@ 4 pm ET
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, composer and musician Pegasus Director Deborah Fox presents a multi-media presentation on the life and music of this trend-setting independent woman who started out at the French royal court of Versailles.
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Greetings to all from Pegasus!
As the pandemic and social distancing rules continue into the fall, we are sorry not to be preparing for live concerts in our beautiful Rochester venues. We miss you and we miss live music!
Nonetheless, let’s make some musical lemonade out of lemons. We all need music, and our artists are eager to perform for you. We are very pleased to announce our virtual online season with real musicians and real music! We’ve put together some different kinds of events, and you’ll be able to enjoy them all on your home screen. Our season, for the fall only, is listed to the left.
Pegasus Rising concerts coming in Spring 2021! Check back here for more information.
