Hill, solo pianist, featured in Sept. 23 Goshen College faculty recital

Concert: Faculty Showcase Recital – Matthew Hill, solo piano
Date and time: Saturday, Sept. 23 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: Tickets for the recital are $6 adults, $4 senior citizens and students. GC students are admitted free with their ID. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Web site: www.gcmusiccenter.org

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College Associate Professor of Music Matthew Hill will present a recital of works for solo piano at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall. This recital is first in the 2006-2007 series of planned Faculty Showcase Recitals that feature Goshen College Music Department faculty members.

Hill will present works by a variety of composers, beginning with a performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281. The program also features performances of Franz Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Three Gershwin Etudes arranged by Earl Wild, and the Piano Sonata No. 1 by British composer Michael Tippett.

Hill teaches piano, music history and humanities at Goshen College. He has written for “Clavier,” lectures and presents master classes at the Goshen College Piano Workshop and for other teacher associations, has been a guest presenter for the Great Lakes Chapter of the College Music Society and at “Couleurs dans le vent: Celebrating the Music of Olivier Messiaen” held at the University of Kansas. In October 2006 he will present a series of master classes and a recital performance at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, China; he has performed at the White House in Washington, D.C., as accompanist for the Wausau Conservatory Choraliers Children’s Choir and has been heard on Wisconsin Public Radio. Hill is also contributing a chapter to “Silence, Music, Silent Music” (Ashgate 2007). Matthew Hill has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under pianist Howard Karp and has also studied with the renowned Beethoven interpreter Claude Frank.

Tickets for the recital are $6 adults, $4 senior citizens and students. GC students are admitted free with their ID. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

Other upcoming Faculty Showcase Recitals include:

·    Saturday, Oct. 21 – Solomia Soroka, violin & Arthur Greene, piano, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall

·    Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007 – John Graulty, clarinet & friends, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall

·    Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007 – GC Brass Faculty, 7:30 p.m., Rieth Recital Hall

·    Saturday, March 17, 2007 – Beverly Lapp and Christine Larson Seitz, duo-piano recital, 7:30 p.m., Sauder Concert Hall

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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