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For Immediate Release						May 7, 1997

Lawrence University Quintet Wins National Music Competition in California


	APPLETON, WIS.  It's been quite the spring for the Lawrence University
Conservatory of Music.  For the second time in less than a month, Lawrence 
musicians have earned first-place honors in a national competition.

	The Lawrence quintet of seniors Nora Anderson, oboe, senior Suzanne
Hickman, clarinet, Peter Kolkay, bassoon, and juniors Elizabeth Cameron, flute,
and Jeremiah Frederick, horn, placed first May 3 in the winds competition in
the 26th annual Carmel Chamber Music Competition held in Carmel, Calif.
 
	The quintet, coached by Lawrence Associate Professor of Music Howard
Niblock, performed in a winners concert on May 4 and received $2,500 for its
first-place effort.  They were one of nine groups, including musicians from
Oberlin, Yale and Miami University of Ohio, selected for the competition finals
on the basis of an audition tape submitted earlier this year.  The Lawrence
quintet performed works by Elliott Carter and Paul Taffanel during its
20-minute audition.

	In April, a Lawrence saxophone quartet finished first in the national
Music Teachers National Association competition in Dallas, Texas.  Also last
month, Lawrence senior Javier Arau was named winner of the national collegiate
composition award in Down Beat magazine's annual student music competition and
two Lawrence pianists placed first and second in a state piano competition
sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio.