FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE					April 28, 1995

Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concert Features the Music of Bach and Mahler

	The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of assistant
professor of music Bridget-Michaele Reischl, will present a concert Sunday, May
7 at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.  Faculty members Lorna Peters,
harpsichord, and Patrice Michaels Bedi, soprano, will be the featured soloists. 
A pre-concert lecture on Mahler will be offered by professor Allen Gimbel at 7
p.m. in Harper Hall of the Music-Drama Center.  Both events are free and open to
the public.

	Works to be performed include J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in
D Major, featuring Ms. Peters, and Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 4 in G Major,
featuring Ms. Michaels Bedi.  

	Lorna Peters received her B.M. in piano performance at Lawrence
University, where she was a student of Theodore Rehl.  At the State Univeristy
of New York at Stony Brook, she completed a M.M. with Gilbert Kalish and a M.M.
in harpsichord with Arthur Haas.  In 1989, a Fulbright scholarship took her to
Salzburg, Austria, where she pursued her harpsichord studies with Kenneth
Gilbert and Gordon Murray.  She was winner of the prize for contemporary music
at the 1989 Paris International Harpsichord Competition.  She is harpsichordist
of the Duo Continuum and the Camerata Academic in Salzburg, and has played
numerous concerts in Austria, Germany, Holland and Switzerland.

Patrice Michaels Bedi joins the Lawrence faculty this year with extensive
credits in the fields of opera, concert, and recital performances.  A native of
California, Ms. Michaels Bedi earned degrees from Pomona College in Claremont,
CA, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  She made her operatic debut
in Fidelio with the Cleveland Opera, and has since performed with the Chicago
Opera Theater, Milwaukee's Florentine Opera, Central City Opera, Tacoma Opera,
and the Banff Centre in Canada.  This season, she appeared in the Chicago Lyric
Opera production of Candide.  Her recent recording, Songs of the Romantic Age,
was recently released on the Cedille label.  She can also be heard on the same
label's recording of Dominick Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs.  




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