Camille
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28
Manuel
Infante: Danses Andalouses
Sergei
Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2, Op. 17
About the Artists
Stephen Field is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and of the
University of Memphis, where he has served as adjunct faculty. Field has
performed with the Memphis Symphony, Oleander Chamber Orchestra, Manchester
Symphony, the Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, Germantown Symphony,
Southern Comfort Jazz Ensemble, Northeast Arkansas Symphony, Memphis Jazz
Orchestra, The Rhythm University Orchestra and the Ars Nova Orchestra. He
has worked with conductors Mitch Miller, Skitch Henderson, Paul Phillips, Alan
Balter and Sexton Ehrling among others. Field has also played the
American premiere of Pange Lingua Variations for Dave Brubeck. He is
widely sought after as soloist, accompanist, and chamber music partner. He was
a founding member of the Memphis-based chamber group, The Idlewild Quintet,
with whom he performed frequently around the Mid-South. He is currently a
member of the Caretta Quartet in Wilmington, North Carolina. Field has
performed recitals at the Yale Center for British Art, The Southport Concert
Series, The Westport Library Concert Series and The Bruce Museum Concert Series
in Connecticut among others. He has coached, accompanied and conducted
opera performances in North Carolina, Florida, New York, Massachusetts,
Tennessee, Mississippi and in various Connecticut cities as well as
accompanying numerous recitals and concerts for various vocal artists including
Osceola Davis, Oziel Garza-Ornelas and Patrice Munsel. As a conductor, Field
has worked with the University of Connecticut Chorale, University of Memphis
Opera Theatre, Connecticut Opera Alliance and the Memphis Symphony.
Stephen is the founding Artistic Director of Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble as
well as the Artistic Director of the newly formed, Port City
Orchestra. In 2007, while on a tour of Ukraine he stepped in at the
last moment for an ailing colleague to conduct the Brahms Requiem for a
national television and radio broadcast. Field is the founding director
of Port City Orchestra and teaches piano privately in Wilmington, North
Carolina while continuing to perform.