CAPE GIRARDEAU YOUTH ATTENDS STRING ACADEMY

A 9-year-old Cape Girardeau girl has been accepted into the Indiana University String Academy for the summer of 1993.

Liesl E. Schoenberger, daughter of John and Brenda Schoenberger, will join 84 other string instrumentalists for the intensive program, under the direction of Mimi Zweig, a professor of music at Indiana University.

Schoenberger was selected from many outstanding applicants from around the world. Generally, participants in the program are junior high or high school students.

Schoenberger is in the third grade at St. Mary Cathedral School in Cape Girardeau. She has been studying the violin for six and a half years and has appeared as a soloist in several states.

Schoenberger is a member of the performing group at the St. Louis Conservatory and School for the Arts. She is also a member of the Youth String Ensemble at Southeast Missouri State University.