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Dowling College & LI String Quartet Host 'A Concert of Viola Quintets'

Dowling College and the Long Island String Quartet will host A Concert of Viola Quintets on Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3 p.m. Free and open to the public, the performance will be held in the Ballroom of Fortunoff Hall, located at Dowling's historic Rudolph Campus in Oakdale, NY.

The ensemble is comprised of Rose-Marie Johnson on Violin, Judith Spokes on Violin, Boris Deviatov on Viola, and Amy Camus on Cello with Guest Violist Anne Marie Bedney. The program will feature classical music from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Felix Mendelsohn.

The Long Island String Quartet, founded in 1992 by Artistic/Executive Director Rose-Marie Johnson, performs a wealth of chamber music repertoire from the Baroque to contemporary eras. The ensemble has performed in museums, colleges, libraries, historic vineyards in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and in various locales throughout the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn in New York City.

The performance is part of a two-year concert series made possible by a grant by the Office of Cultural Affairs of Suffolk County and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, please call (631) 244-3030.

About Dowling College

Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.