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    Date: 11/13/01
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SLU STRING QUARTETS TO PERFORM NOVEMBER 20
     HAMMOND -- Six student musicians   four violinists, a cellist and a violist   will
present an evening of string quartets at Southeastern Louisiana University's Pottle Music
Building Auditorium.
     The free concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 20. The performers are
all international graduate students who study with Yakov Voldman, director of the university's
strings program, and Southeastern Department of Music and Dramatic Arts faculty members
Karen Jung and Amy Leonard.
     In the first half of the program, violist Ausra Jasineviciute and cellist Natalia Vacarciuc
will join first violinist Zorica Dimova and second violinist Jivka Jeleva in Beethoven's "Quartet
Op. 18, No. 4" and Shostakovich's "Quartet Op. 49. No. 1." Jasineviciute and Vacarciuc will
then perform with first violinist Razvan Constantin and second violinist Gabriel Platica in a
string quartet by E. Mirzoyan, a composer of Armenian descent, dedicated to Christian
Armenians.
     The six musicians also performed the program at Rogers Memorial Chapel in New
Orleans on October 31 as part of the Newcomb Department of Music's "Music at Midday"
series.
     Jasineviciute, a 1997 graduate of the Academy of Music of Vilnius, has performed
outside her native Lithuania during the past six years in a number of youth orchestras, as well as
with chamber music groups. Vacarciuc, a native of Moldova in the former United Soviet
Socialists Republics, graduated from the Academy of Music in Chisinau in 1997. Two years
earlier, she began working in the "Tele-radio Moldova" Symphonic Orchestra, which performed 
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in Italy, Spain and Portugal, among other countries. 
     Constantin and Platica are both from Bucharest, Romania. Constantine is a 1993
graduate of the University of Music in Bucharest. He performed as a soloist in the Dinu Lipatti
International Festival and won national and international competitions. Platica completed his
studies at Repton School in Derbyshire, England, and studied at the Royal Northern College in
Manchester, England. Since coming to the United States in 1999, he has won the Music Teachers
National Association's Collegiate Artists Competition in Louisiana and the Josef Gingold award
at the Kent/Blossom music festival.
     Jeleva and Dimova are natives of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and graduates of the P.
Vladigerov Music Academy in Sofia. Before coming to the United States this year, Jeleva
performed with the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra. 
     For additional information about the concert, call the Southeastern Department of Music
and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184.
                             -SLU-
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