Stephen Redfield
has made solo appearances with numerous orchestras and has been featured in chamber music concerts throughout the South, around the United States, and abroad in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Far East.

As concertmaster and soloist, his performances with the Victoria Bach Festival have been produced on CDs and broadcast on National Public Radio. He also leads the second violins at the Sunriver Music Festival.

As a concertmaster and chamber musician, Dr. Redfield is a member of the Santa Fe Pro Musica and has performed with Kenneth Slowik, Marion Verbruggen, Rachel Podger, and Catherine Manson. He also has recorded extensively as a member of the Oregon Bach Festival orchestra, including the Grammy Award-winning disc Credo.

Stephen Redfield, D.M.A., is an associate professor of violin, and has been a member of The University of Southern Mississippi School of Music faculty since 1996, where he plays with Trio Mississippi and the Baroque ensemble Haupt Musik.

Dr. Redfield's dissertation is on the late 18th-century Keyboard and Violin Sonatas of Vicenzo Orgitano, and since researching in this area, he has developed a specialization in period performance. He has studied Baroque violin with Lucy van Dael and Elizabeth Blumenstock and performs regularly as a Baroque violinist.His teachers were Dorothy DeLay, Donald Weilerstein, and Leonard Posner.

Students of Dr. Redfield have often often been finalists in auditions of major orchestras and hold principal or section positions in several regional orchestras. Others have held teaching posts at universitites and in numerous high school and junior high school string programs. His students also have participated in and won many competitions and have performed throughout the United States.