College faculty recital features Solomia Soroka and Arthur Greene Oct. 21

Concert: Goshen College Faculty Showcase Recital featuring Solomia Soroka, violin, and Arthur Greene, piano
Time and date: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 21
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, on violin, will present a joint concert with her husband and University of Michigan Professor of Music Arthur Greene, on piano, on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.

The concert program will feature the Violin Sonata No. 6 by Ukrainian composer Nikolai Roslavets, one of the works featured in Soroka’s and Greene’s new compact disc of three Roslavets violin sonatas, which was recently released on the NAXOS record label. The CD was recorded in Sauder Concert Hall by Music Center recording engineer Matthias Stegmann. Soroka and Greene will also perform works by contemporary Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk, Paganini/Hartmann, Jeno Hubay and Fryderyk Chopin.

Ukrainian violinist Solomia Soroka, born in L’viv, is among the most accomplished Ukrainian musicians of her generation. She earned her master’s degree summa cum laude and completed postgraduate studies in the Kyiv Conservatory, and later served on its faculty in the department of chamber music. Soroka also has a doctorate from Eastman School of Music.

Soroka made her solo debut at age 10 with the L’viv Philharmonic Orchestra, and subsequently has appeared as soloist with that orchestra on numerous occasions. She has appeared as soloist and as chamber musician at concerts and festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, USA and Canada. Soroka has won top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions held in the former Soviet Union – the Prokofiev, Lysenko and Zolota Osin’ competitions.

Soroka has given the Australian and American premieres of a number of important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin, including works by Borys Lyatoshynsky, Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovytch.

Greene, current professor of piano and former chair of the University of Michigan’s Piano Department, 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.

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

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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