Jan. 27, 1998 School of Music Contact Scott Barkhurst (541) 346-1163 or John R. Crosiar 346-3135 EUGENE--A top German chamber ensemble will perform, a string musicians' concert will benefit a student scholarship fund, and young vocalists will gather for a one-day free workshop, all this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave. For more information, call the UO School of Music weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week's events. Saturday, Feb. 7--High School Vocal Workshop High school vocalists will gather at the UO School of Music for a one-day workshop from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The free event is designed to expose talented high school singers to the various disciplines necessary for singing at the college and professional level. Those registered for the event will have master classes with UO voice faculty members Mark Beudert, Milagro Vargas and Ann Tedards. They also will meet with faculty accompanist Gregory Mason and with Francis Graffeo, director of the Oregon Opera Ensemble and artistic director of Eugene Opera. The workshop will conclude with a recital at 3 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Featured singers will be UO graduate students in vocal performance, as well as selected singers from the workshop. Admission is free, and the public is invited. Monday, Feb. 9--Leslie Sawyer and Friends: Benefit Concert Eugene Symphony violinist Leslie Sawyer will give a recital at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Proceeds from the concert will benefit scholarships given to UO students by the local chapter of Phi Beta, professional fraternity for men and women in the creative and performing arts. Tickets, available at the door or in advance from members of Phi Beta, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. The program includes Beethoven's "Sonata in A Minor," Prokofiev's "Sonata for Two Violins" and Brahms' "Trio in B Major." Sawyer will be joined on the program by violinist Marty Jennings, cellist Johanna Volkert-Nelson and pianist David Lyons. Sawyer is concertmaster of the Eugene Symphony and has served in the same capacity for the Oregon Mozart Players and Eugene Opera Orchestra. She has a bachelor's degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music and recently completed her master's degree from the University of Oregon. Sawyer has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Oregon, Colorado and Minnesota, and in 1997, she was a featured soloist at the Cabrillo Music Festival in California. Thursday, Feb. 12--Chamber Music Series: The Petersen Quartet The Petersen String Quartet, one of Germany's leading chamber ensembles, will give a Chamber Music Series concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Reserved-seat tickets range from $8 to $22, available in advance from the Hult Center at 682-5000. Student rush tickets will be sold at the door for $5 and $9. The program includes Mozart's "Quartet in B-flat Major," Schulhoff's "Quartet No. 1" and Schubert's "Quartet in D Minor," also known as "Death and the Maiden." A free lecture at 7:15 p.m. offering insights and recorded excerpts from the program will precede the concert. The Petersen Quartet is widely acclaimed as one of the most exciting young quartets to have emerged from Germany in recent years. Founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin, its members now occupy principal positions in leading orchestras in Berlin and Leipzig before devoting themselves to the quartet full-time. Since then, the Petersen Quartet has won many international prizes, including second prize at the 1985 Evian Competition in France, first prize at the 1986 International Chamber Music Competition in Italy, and second prize at the 1987 ARD Competition in Munich. For five years, the quartet was resident at the Berlin Radio, a collaboration which led to a close relationship with Capriccio, for whom they have recorded three CDs of Mozart quartets, two prize-winning CDs of works by Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, a Berg/Janacek/Dutilleux disc, a disc of Boccherini quintets, a Grieg/Schumann disc, and two CDs of Beethoven quartets. The Petersen's 1997-98 appearances include extensive tours of Germany and a three-week tour of the United States, including their debut at Carnegie Hall. -30- #P-2121/A&E