Enjoy Concert III of the Complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas, performed by chamber music partners Stephen Redfield, violin, and Joanna Burnside, piano, for this month’s Music in the City. The performance features the stormy and intense No. 7 in C Minor and the sunny and humorous No. 8 in G Major., and will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, which passed this past December.
Violinist Stephen Redfield, honored as “Best Instrumentalist of 2018-19” by the Austin Critics Table, was a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory and Donald Weilerstein at the Eastman School. He has been Professor of Violin at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1996. He has maintained an active schedule as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States and internationally, even through the pandemic, live and online. This fall he played “Recomposed,” by Max Richter, with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and also Mozart’s beloved Turkish Concerto with his students’ orchestra. On Baroque violin, he played one concerto by Vivaldi, and soon another, by Bach.
Over his 40 years with the Oregon Bach Festival, he has participated in numerous recordings, including the Grammy® Award-winning disc Credo. Stephen is concertmaster of Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Arizona Bach Festival, the Conspirare Company of Voices and La Follia Austin Baroque. And his performances as concertmaster and soloist with the Victoria Bach Festival have been broadcast nationally.
Pianist Joanna Burnside is a music teacher and performer in the Hattiesburg, MS area. She holds the D.M.A. in piano performance, with a minor in music theory from Louisiana State University, and the B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano performance from the University of Southern Mississippi. Recently retired, she taught piano, music theory, music appreciation, and accompanied faculty and students at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College since 1997. Before MGCCC, she taught music theory and class piano at the University of Southern Mississippi and Louisiana State University.
An active collaborator with a variety of musicians, she has been a featured soloist with the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony, Louisiana State University Symphony, and Mississippi Symphony Orchestras. Her current performances include a celebration of Beethoven, through collaboration with Dr. Stephen Redfield, violin professor at USM.
Dr. Burnside is nationally certified through the Music Teachers National Association in piano and music theory and is a member of the Mississippi Music Teachers Association, serving as MMTA president from 2004-2006. Her teaching experience includes piano students of all ages. She has been a member of the Hattiesburg Music Teachers League for over 36 years. She has held many positions in the League, including president and she currently serves as HMTL website manager and membership chair.
Music in the City is a monthly series presenting live performances of classical and traditional artists and is generously sponsored by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral. Watch this performance on the Museum’s Facebook or YouTube page.
