The Redlands Symphony presents The Magic of Mozart, featuring solo appearances by Lawrence Dutton and Phil Setzer, members of the world-famous Emerson String Quartet, on Saturday, February 2, 2019 in Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Redlands. Maestro Ransom Wilson will conduct. Single tickets start at $15. The concert begins at 8 PM. Doors open at 7 PM. Maestro Wilson will present a pre-concert talk starting at 7:15 PM.
Dutton and Setzer will perform MOZART’S Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364. The program also includes Divertimento in D, K. 136, and Symphony No. 36 “Linz”, both by Mozart.
“I am so proud that two members of the greatest string quartet in the world – the Emerson Quartet – approached me about performing the Mozart Sinfonia with the Redlands Symphony,” Maestro Wilson explained, “We are in for a treat!”
Lawrence Dutton, Violinist
Lawrence Dutton, violinist of the nine-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet, has collaborated with many of the world’s great performing artists, including Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Leon Fleisher, Sir Paul McCartney, Renee Fleming, Sir James Galway, Andre Previn, Menahem Pressler, Walter Trampler, Rudolf Firkusny, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha Dichter, Jan DeGaetani, Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, and Elmar Oliveira, among others.
Mr. Dutton has also performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. Since 2001, Mr. Dutton has been the Artistic Advisor of the Hoch Chamber Music Series, presenting three concerts at Concordia College in Bronxville, NY. He has been featured on three albums with the Grammy-winning jazz bassist John Patitucci on the Concord Jazz label and with the Beaux Arts Trio recorded the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op. 57, and the Fauré G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 45, on the Philips label. His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a Grammy award.
Mr. Dutton exclusively uses Thomastik Spirocore strings and performs with a viola created by Samuel Zygmuntowicz (New York, NY 2003).
Philip Setzer, Violinist
Violinist Philip Setzer, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both former violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael Druian, and later at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky.
In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, DC, and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. He has appeared with the National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony (David Robertson, conductor), Memphis Symphony (Michael Stern), New Mexico and Puerto Rico Symphonies (Guillermo Figueroa), Omaha and Anchorage Symphonies (David Loebel) and on several occasions with the Cleveland Orchestra (Louis Lane). He has also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival. In April of 1989, Mr. Setzer premiered Paul Epstein's Matinee Concerto. This piece, dedicated to and written for Mr. Setzer, has since been performed by him in Hartford, New York, Cleveland, Boston and Aspen.
Mr. Setzer currently serves as the Distinguished Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at SUNY Stony Brook and Visiting Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Setzer has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London's Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA and The Mannes School. Mr. Setzer is also the Director of the Shouse Institute, the teaching division of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit. Mr. Setzer has also been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center, and his article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of Isaac Stern's 80th birthday celebration.
Mr. Setzer has also been touring and recording the piano trio repertoire with David Finckel and Wu Han.
Mr. Setzer exclusively uses Thomasik Dominant and Vision strings and performs on a violin produced by Samuel Zygmuntowicz (New York, NY 2011)