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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 22, March 6, 1997



              String quartet, pianist to perform March 18
                                   
     The Mendelssohn String Quartet will perform with guest
artist, pianist Michael Steinberg, at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March
18, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music
Building.
     The program will feature Beethoven's String Quartet in
F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, Dvorak's Quintet for Piano and
Strings, Op. 82 and String Quartet by Michael Rose,
commissioned for the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
     The quartet is composed of Nick Eanet and Nicholas
Mann, violins; Maria Lambros, viola; and Marcy Rosen, cello.
The quartet performs frequently in the United States and
abroad and most recently was in concert with the Juilliard
String Quartet at Town Hall in New York City.
     The Mendelssohn String Quartet has shown a strong
commitment to contemporary music, premiering four new works
during the past two seasons.
     In residence at the University since 1989, the members
of the quartet are faculty for the University's annual
Winter Institute for String Quartets, which offers intensive
chamber music study each January.
     The quartet also is affiliated with New York's Merkin
Concert Hall, and members also are the Blodgett Artists-in-
Residence at Harvard University.
     A professor of piano at Delaware, Steinberg has studied
the piano since the age of eight. He graduated from Yale
University with a degree in architecture and then continued
his music study at Juilliard School of Music, where he
received his master's degree in piano performance. He has
played in recital, as a soloist with orchestra and as a
chamber musician throughout Europe and the United States. He
was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary, The
Odyssey of Michael Steinberg. For nine years, Steinberg was
pianist-in-residence at the Villa San Michele in Anacapri,
Italy.
     He has made numerous recordings, including the complete
32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas and music by Chopin, Brahms and
Schumann.
     Admission is $8 for adults, $5 UD faculty/staff and
senior citizens and $2 for students. Tickets may purchased
in advance at the Bob Carpenter Center or Trabant University
Center Box Offices or at the door.