Goshen College Recital Series to feature spouses Solomia Soroka and Arthur Greene Feb. 13

Concert: Faculty Recital Series Concert with Solomia Soroka, violin, and Arthur Greene, piano
Date: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $5 adults, $3 seniors/students. GC students free with ID. Tickets available at the Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Adding to the international dimensions of the Goshen College campus, Ukraine native Solomia Soroka delighted Michiana audiences on her violin in Sauder Concert Hall with the college’s orchestra. Now, Soroka, assistant professor of music at Goshen College, will partner with her husband and University of Michigan Chair of the Piano Department Arthur Greene on piano to present a recital as part of the 2004-05 Faculty Recital Series on Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall.

The spouses will perform a program including pieces by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Bolcom, Sarasate, Skoryk and Wieniawski.

Soroka joined the Goshen College music faculty as assistant professor of music in 2004, where she teaches applied violin and viola, chamber music, advanced music theory, and music literature classes. Born in the Ukraine, Soroka made her solo debut with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 10. She completed graduate and post-graduate studies at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, and holds a doctorate in musical arts from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. She has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy and the Ukraine. The winner of top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions, Soroka was Artist-in-Residence at James Cook University in Australia from 1994 to 1997, and has given the Australian and American premieres of several important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin.

Greene, chair of the piano department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has won acclaim in concert halls and competitions throughout the world for his dynamic and personal performances. Greene won the gold medals in the William Kapell and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, and he was a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition. He has been called “a profound musician” by The Washington Post and “a masterful pianist” by The New York Times.

Greene received degrees from Yale and Juilliard, and studied with Martin Canin. He has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah and National Symphonies, the Czech National Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, the National Symphony of Ukraine and many others. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Moscow Rachmaninov Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Lisbon Sao Paulo Opera House, Hong Kong City Hall and concert houses in Shanghai and Beijing. He has toured Japan 12 times. Greene was among the first pianists selected for the Xerox Pianists program. He was also an Artistic Ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency. He has performed the complete solo piano works of Johannes Brahms in a series of six programs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students. GC students receive free admission with ID. To order tickets ahead, call the Goshen College Welcome Center at (574) 535-7566 or e-mail joannp@goshen.edu.

The Goshen College Faculty Recital Series features performances by academic faculty members at Goshen College and other colleges and universities.

Future recitals in the Faculty Recital Series in the spring include:

Feb. 25 – David Machavariani, cello; Machavariani is originally from the Republic of Georgia and is an assistant principal in the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall

May 1-8 – Opus 41pipe organ dedication week

May 1, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall – Craig Cramer, professor of organ at the University of Notre Dame

May 3, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall – Goshen College Assistant Professor of Music Christine Thögerson, organ, with Rosann Penner-Kauffman

May 6, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall – Mark Herris, organ, 1996 Goshen College graduate and current doctoral student at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Goshen College, established in 1894, is a four-year residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit https://www.goshen.edu/.

Editors: For more information, contact News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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