Soroka and Greene partner again for Goshen College faculty recital on April 2

Concert: Faculty Recital Series Concert featuring Solomia Soroka, violin, and Arthur Greene, piano
Time and date: 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 2, 2006
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $6 adults, $4 seniors/students. GC students free with ID. Tickets available at the door.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College Assistant Professor of Music Solomia Soroka will present a Faculty Recital Series concert with her husband, University of Michigan Professor of Music Arthur Greene, on April 2 at 4 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.

The program will include pieces by Nikolai Roslavets, Edward MacDowell and Arthur Hartmann, William Bolcom, Eugene Ysaye, Edvard Grieg and Jeno Hubay. 

Soroka joined the Goshen College music faculty as assistant professor of music in 2004; 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 earned at Eastman School of Music, 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 Australia’s James Cook University from 1994 to 1997, and has been selected to perform the Australian and American premieres of several important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin.

Greene, current professor of piano and former chair of the University of Michigan’s Piano Department, Ann Arbor, Mich., has won acclaim in concert halls and competitions throughout the world for his dynamic and personal performances. Greene took 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 described “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 a 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 given 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 was also an artistic ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency. Greene received degrees from Yale and Juilliard, and studied with Martin Canin.

Tickets for the recital are $6 for adults, $4 for seniors and students. GC students receive free admission with ID. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

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

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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