Arizona Bach Festival 2012 - Stephen Redfield
Violinist Stephen Redfield comes to the Arizona Bach Festival from the deep south. He 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. A native of Eugene, he participated in the Oregon Bach Festival as a teenager. Since 1983, he has been a regular member of the 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 performed both Mendelssohn violin concertos as well as his three sonatas. As a chamber musician, Stephen has performed internationally, collaborating with artists Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Wiley and Mark Peskanov. As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, he will return to Lima, Peru for this May's 9th Festival Internacionál 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.
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 Nashville's Music City Baroque. Stephen's Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with Marion Verbruggen, Mary Springfels, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik.