Soroka and Greene partner for Goshen College faculty recital on Nov. 20

Concert: Faculty Recital Series – Solomia Soroka, violin and Arthur Greene, piano
Date and time:Friday, Nov. 20 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 free with valid ID.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College Assistant Professor of Music and violinist Solomia Soroka will perform a recital with husband and University of Michigan pianist Arthur Greene on Friday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.

The program will prominently feature music by rarely-heard early 20^th century American composer Arthur Hartmann, the first violin professor at the Eastman School of Music, and a close friend of composer Claude Debussy. Hartmann's music is the focus of a new compact disc recorded by Soroka and Greene on the Toccata Records label, which specializes in never-before-recorded music. Soroka and Greene will perform several works and transcriptions by Hartmann, and will also perform music by Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel and 20^th century Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

Copies of Soroka and Greene's compact disc will be available for purchase at the recital.

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 L'viv, Ukraine, Soroka is among the most accomplished Ukrainian musicians of her generation. She made her solo debut with the L'viv Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 10. She won top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions held in the former Soviet Union – the Prokofiev, Lysenko, and Zolota Osin' competitions. Soroka 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. She has toured and recorded extensively with her husband, Greene.

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. Born in New York, 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 cost $7 for adults and $5 for seniors/students. They will be available at the door one hour before the recital.

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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