Opera Lafayette - Elizabeth Field

Elizabeth Field, a member of the Opera Lafayette Orchestra for several years, enjoys an active career as both a chamber musician and soloist on both period and modern instruments throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Field holds a Doctorate from Cornell University in Historical Performance Practice and from 1993 to 1999 served as Professor of violin at California State University, Sacramento and The University of California, Davis. She is currently teaching at Duke University where she is helping to establish a Historical Performance Practice program.

As a soloist, Ms. Field has performed concertos with several Northern California orchestras as well as with the Calgary Philharmonic and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra. She is currently first violinist of the period instrument group, The van Swieten Quartet in residence at the Longy School of Music in Boston, and formerly of the Sun Quartet throughout her professorship in California. She is now a member of the Washington based groups, ArcoVoce which performs on both modern and period instruments. She also performs regularly with the period ensemble Pro Musica Rara, based in Baltimore MD and frequently serves as a guest Concertmaster for the Washington Chamber Symphony, the National Chamber Orchestra and the Washington Bach Consort.

As an early music specialist, she has performed and lectured throughout the United States and Europe, including master classes at The Hochshule fur Kunst in Berlin as well as at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Juilliard School in New York. She has been featured on live radio broadcasts in Belgium and was sponsored by Holland's famed Netwerk voor Oude Musik.

From 1982 - 1991, Ms. Field performed and recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and for Sony Classical, ESS.A.Y, and Vox Cum Laude with The Classical Band, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and The New York Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed with several East Coast orchestras including The Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, The St. Lukes Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, American Composers Orchestra, and The City Opera of New York.

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