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For Immediate Release
November 17, 1999

Lawrence University Students Win State MTNA Competition 
 

     APPLETON, WIS. -- Two Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
students earned first-place honors at the Wisconsin Music Teachers
National Association (MNTA) state competition held Nov. 5 at UW-Oshkosh.
     Senior Rene Rusch, Oak Creek, received the first-place prize in the
piano competition and junior saxophonist Kimberly Gedde, Owatonna,
Minn., won the woodwinds competition.  Sophomore Ji-Young Kim, Seoul,
South Korea, was selected an alternate in the piano division.  Rusch is
a student of Catherine Kautsky and Gedde is a student of Steven
Jordheim's saxophone studio.
     Rusch and Gedde each advance to the MTNA's five-state regional
competition in mid-January at UW-Milwaukee.