Local violinist and pianist to perform Nov. 19 recital

Faculty Recital Series: Matthew Hill, piano & Solomia Soroka, violin
Date and time: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the recital. GC students are free with valid ID.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College Associate Professor of Music Solomia Soroka, violin, and Professor of Music Matthew Hill, piano, highlight a recital of chamber music on Friday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall. The recital is part of the 2010-2011 Faculty Recital Series.

Hill and Soroka will be joined by GC music students Greta Breckbill and Katie Miller, violin; Ben Breckbill, piano; Chelsea Wimmer, viola; Levi Smucker, Justin Yoder and Laurel Woodward, cello; and Community School of the Arts faculty member Rosalyn Troiano, viola.

The program will feature the "Dumky" Trio in E minor by Dvorak; Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8, Op. 110; and Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 25.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students are free with ID.

Soroka joined the Goshen College music faculty in 2004 and 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 doctor of music arts degree from Eastman School of Music in Rochester (N.Y.). She has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine and the United States. The winner of top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions, Soroka has served as 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. She is a recording artist for the NAXOS label.

Hill teaches piano, music history and humanities. In October 2006, he presented a series of master classes and a recital performance at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, China, as well as guest lectures at the Southwest University of Science and Technology in Mianyang. He contributed a chapter to "Silence, Music, Silent Music" (Ashgate, 2007), has written for Clavier and was an invited presenter at "Couleurs dans le vent: Celebrating the Music of Olivier Messiaen," an international conference held at the University of Kansas in 2002. Hill is co-chair of the music department and co-coordinator of the GC Piano Workshop. He 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.

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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