AMABILE QUARTET TO PLAY TUESDAY

The Amabile Piano Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Old St. Vincent's Church in downtown Cape Girardeau.

The quartet is composed of performers from different parts of the U.S. The members are accomplished soloists and professors who come together three times a year for tours that might range from Cape Girardeau to a chamber series in Washington, D.C.

Kathleen Mattis, who was named the associate principal viola of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra at age 21, is the original member of the quartet, which began life 10 years ago as a trio. Mattis recently was featured as a soloist by the symphony.

She is joined by violinist Kathleen Winkler, an associate professor of violin at the Oberlin Conservatory, and by cellist Lisa Lancaster, a Julliard graduate who appears frequently as a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Pianist Marian Hahn makes the trio a piano quartet. She has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops and has participated in the Marlboro, Grand Canyon and Grand Teton festivals.

She is on the piano faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Amabile (pronounced ah mah bee lay) is a musical term suggesting that a performer play with love and affection. A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewer recently wrote: "It is easy to see that these women enjoy each other's company as much as they enjoy the experience of playing the music of Mozart and Schubert."

At Old St. Vincent's Church, the quartet will open with a piano quartet by Frank Bridge and proceed in a Spanish vein with a quartet by Turina. The finale will be one of the masterworks of classical music, Brahms' Quartet in G Minor.

After leaving Cape Girardeau, the quartet will proceed to New York City to record these pieces.

Admission is $6 general, $4 for seniors and free for Southeast students. Tickets will be available at the door.

The concert is sponsored by the Cultural Program Committee at Southeast and the Missouri Arts Council.