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    Date: 4/23/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple 97

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YOUNG VIOLINISTS TO SOLO WITH SOUTHEASTERN ORCHESTRA
     HAMMOND -- Four young St. Tammany Parish violinists will solo with the
Southeastern Louisiana University Chamber Orchestra Tuesday, April 30, at the Pottle Music
Building Auditorium.
     The students earned the spotlight by winning the university Community Music School's
Young Musicians Violin Concerto Competition in March 27, said Chamber Orchestra director
Yakov Voldman.
     The Chamber Orchestra's free concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and will also feature
two violists, graduate student Ausra Jasinevinciute of Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Southeastern
faculty member Amy Leonard, in J.S. Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto in B flat major." The
evening will open and close with the orchestra's performance of Mozart's "Serenata Notturna in
D major" and Britten's "Simple Symphony."
     Erik Fabacher, a 12-year-old student at Tchefuncte Middle School, will perform Vivaldi's
"Violin Concerto in A minor." He is the son of James and Lisette Fabacher of Mandeville.
     Fourteen-year-old Grace Gossling of Mandeville will also perform a work by Vivaldi, the
"Violin Concerto in G major." A home-schooled student, she is the daughter of Marie and John
Gossling.
     Lia Kepner, daughter of Mayuni and William Kepner of Covington, will perform "Pupil's
Concerto, Opus 22, No. 5," by Seitz. The 12-year-old attends Lake Harbor Middle School.
     Laura Cain, a 10-year-student at Tchefuncte Middle School, will perform Huber's
"Student Concertino, Op. 6 No. 2." She is the daughter of Kathy and Gordon Cain of Mandeville.
     The violinists are all students in Southeastern's Community Music School. Cain and
Fabacher study with Voldman, while Kepner and Gossling are students of Southeastern graduate
student Jivka Jeleva of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
     For information, call the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts at 985-549-2184.
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Press release available online at www.selu.edu/news/spring02.html