APOLLO STRING QUARTET TO PERFORM HERE TONIGHT

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Apollo String Quartet will be performing tonight at Old St. Vincent's Church on Main Street.

The performance begins at 8 p.m. and doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students, senior citizens and Community Concert Association card holders. Admission is free with a university ID card.

The musicians have been artists-in-residence at Southeast Missouri State University this week.

Sponsored by the University Cultural Programs Committee and the Department of Music, the Quartet presented a series of master classes to area string students Monday at the university.

The members of the Apollo String Quartet have international credentials and have performed and studied in major conservatories, universities and concert halls throughout Europe and the United States.

Eileen Hyun, violin, is a graduate of Juilliard School where she studied with Joseph Fuchs. A former member of the Jacksonville Symphony, Hyun is a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh.

Warren Davison, violin and founder of the quartet, holds a degree in philosophy. A graduate of Duquesne and the Institute of Chamber Music, he has studied violin with Alan Grisham. Davidson has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh Ballet and the National Repertory Orchestra.

Andrea Reetz, viola, won the prestigious 1989 Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition and studied at the Berlin Academy for Music with Wolfram Christ and at the Cincinnati Conservatory. She is the viola principal of the Pittsburgh Ballet and Opera Orchestras.

Dianne Wachsman, cello, has studied at the University of Illinois with Gabriel Magyar, at Boston University with George Neikrug and at the Cincinnati Conservatory. She has performed recitals in Europe and the United States and has been cello principal with the Shreveport Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra. Wachsman's work, "Movement for String Quartet," will be performed tonight.