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Chamber I: Baroque Gems
7:30 PM, Saturday, October 01, 2011
St. Andrews Episcopal Cathedral
The crispness and clarity of the MSO Chamber Ensemble are enhanced by the cathedral’s natural acoustics, as will be the virtuosity of guest violinist Stephen Redfield (Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi) as he performs Bach and Vivaldi.
Program
Jean-Joseph Mouret: Rondeau from Premiere Suite des Symphonies
Darcie Bishop, trumpet
Alessandro Scarlatti: Sinfonia No. 4 in E minor
- Vivace
- Adagio - Allegro
- Adagio - Allegro
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concerto in A major, D. 96
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Presto
Stephen Redfield, violin
Benedetto Marcello: Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 1, No. 4
- Largo
- Presto vivace
- Adagio - Prestissimo
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
- Allegro
- Andante
- Allegro assai
Stephen Redfield, violin
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from Dardanus
- Entrée des guerriers
- Tambourins
- Air vif
- Air gai en rondeau
- Ritournelle gracieusement et un peu gai
- Rondea du sommeil
- Gavotte graceiuse (“C’est la constance”)
- Rigaudons
Stephen Redfield
Violinist Stephen Redfield, D.M.A., is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music faculty, where he performs with the Mississippi Chamber Circle and the Baroque duo HauptMusik. Throughout the year Stephen acts as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and each summer plays with the Victoria Bach Festival, where his performances as concertmaster and soloist have been produced on discs and broadcast nationally. He also leads the second violin section in the Sunriver Festival, and is a member of the Oregon Bach Festival orchestra, where he has participated in numerous recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning disc “Credo.”
Stephen is frequently featured as a soloist with orchestra, sometimes also acting as the ensemble’s leader. During 2009, Mendelssohn’s 200th birth-year, he will perform both Mendelssohn violin concertos (and also play and record his three sonatas). As a chamber musician, Stephen has performed throughout the United States and internationally, collaborating with artists Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Wiley and Mark Peskanov. He was a winner of the Coleman and Monterey Chamber Music Competitions.
Stephen’s dissertation is on the late 18th-century Keyboard and Violin Sonatas of Vicenzo Orgitano, and since researching in this area, he developed a specialization in period performance. He performs regularly as a Baroque violinist, including as a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and he has led the ensembles Albuquerque Baroque Players and Belle Meade Baroque. Stephen’s Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with Marion Verbruggen, Mary Springfels, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik.
As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble, with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, Stephen travelled to Lima, Peru, for this May’s Festival Internacional de Música Antigua. Specializing in J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Obligato, this period performance group has toured throughout the United States as well as in Spain, Japan and Cuba.
Dr. Redfield’s many students have placed in competitions, have earned distinction as performers and educators, and have been appointed to orchestral and teaching positions throughout the country. Stephen’s major teachers were Dorothy DeLay at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Donald Weilerstein at the Eastman School, and Leonard Posner at the University of Texas. He studied Baroque violin with Lucy van Dael, at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and with Elizabeth Blumenstock.