Soloists
Edgar Sanfeliz Botta- Countertenor
Peggy Hartman- Oboe D' amore
Konstantin Litvinenko- Violoncello
R. Greg Lane- Viola
Soloists- Bios
Edgar Sanfeliz Botta- Countertenor
Edgar Sanfeliz Botta was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba where he began his music education at the age of ten. At age fourteen he
began to study choral conducting and voice at the music conservatory Esteban Salas. He also
became the organist and music director at his home parish, St. Lucia Cat
Soloists- Bios
Edgar Sanfeliz Botta- Countertenor
Edgar Sanfeliz Botta was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba where he began his music education at the age of ten. At age fourteen he
began to study choral conducting and voice at the music conservatory Esteban Salas. He also
became the organist and music director at his home parish, St. Lucia Catholic Church in Santiago
de Cuba, Cuba. He has worked with professional orchestras, choirs, and ensembles under the
batons of leading Cuban and international conductors. In January 2012 he performed for Pope Benedict XVI. Later that year, he immigrated to the United States. In 2014, he won a scholarship and started studying voice performance at Florida International
University where he graduated as Magna Cum Laude and Worlds Ahead in the Spring of 2017.
Currently, Mr. Sanfeliz serves as alto section leader and relief organist at St. Thomas Episcopal Church of Coral Gables. He also performs on
organ at Church at the Little Flower of Coral Gables, as well as maintaining his private voice studio.
As a countertenor, he has explored a wide repertoire from the early vocal works of
the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century. He has been acclaimed as “one of the rarest and most talented singers nowadays” by
the Miami Herald, as having an “unusual voice” by El Nuevo Herald, and considered
a “musical epiphany” by the newspaper El Pais, Madrid.
Peggy Hartman- Oboe D' amore
Peggy Hartman has spent more than twenty years specializing in the study and performance of baroque woodwinds including baroque oboe, oboe d'amore, oboe da caccia and alto and soprano recorders. She studied historically informed performance practice and performed on baroque oboe at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College and the Amherst Early Music Baroque Academy.
She has performed many of the great baroque oboe and oboe d'amore works including Bach's St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Concerto for Oboe and Violin, Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 2 and 4 (with great English virtuoso Simon Standage), and the solo Cantata Ich Habe Genug. She has performed in many locales including , NYC, Glastonbury England, Emilia-Romagna Italy, Connecticut, Key West, The Bahamas and Grand Cayman. She is also an experienced performer on the harpsichord. She resides in Glastonbury, CT with her husband, David, and leads the adult and children's bell choirs at First Church of Christ, Glastonbury. She maintains an active private studio teaching oboe and piano. Mrs. Hartman is a graduate of Bowling Green University School of Music.
Konstantin Litvinenko- Violoncello
Konstantin Litvinenko is an important Miami based cellist and performs widely in orchestral and chamber music settings. He has been a member of Mostly Baroque for more than 20 years and has performed in NYC, Hartford, and The Bahamas with them as well as in South Florida. He has performed a number of important works for cello on baroque cello including JS Bach's solo suite No. 3, Marais's Sonnerie, Vivaldi's Concerto Alla Rustica and Loeillet's trio in B Minor as well as Faure's Elegie (modern cello) with orchestra. Mr. Litvinenko is a graduate of the Music Conservatory in Odessa, Russia.
R. Greg Lane- Viola
Greg Lane is a sought after orchestral violist and performs regularly throughout Florida, especially in Naples and Ft. Myers. He was a founder member of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and performed with them for more than 20 years. He was a long time member of the Orpheus String Quartet and performed many great works with this ensemble including Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Quartetsatz, Beethoven Op. 18 quartets as well as late Mozart and Hadyn quartets. He has performed JS Bach solo suites (Cello suites transcribed for Viola) as well as viola and piano sonatas in recital. He is a graduate of the FIU School of Music.
The Mostly Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Violin
David Hartman- Leader
Anna Ventura
Miriam Stern
Raisa Ilyutovich
Viola
R. Greg Lane
Ross DeBardelaben
Violoncello
Elena Alamilla
Konstantin Litvinenko
Bass
Hernan Matute
Harpsichord
Dr. Eugene Greco
Peggy Hartman
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