Goshen College's Soroka, violin, to collaborate with cello and piano for faculty recital

Faculty Recital Series: Solomia Soroka, violin; Katri Ervamaa, cello; and Arthur Greene, piano
Date and time: Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall
Cost: $7 adults, $5 senior/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students/faculty/staff free with ID.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Goshen College Associate Professor of Music and violinist Solomia Soroka will present a recital with University of Michigan pianist Arthur Greene and Finnish-born cellist Katri Ervamaa on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.

The program will feature music for violin, cello and piano by 20th century composers Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Kodaly and Ysaye.

Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, available at the door one hour before the concert. Goshen College students, faculty and staff are free with ID.

Born in L'viv, Ukraine, Soroka is among the most accomplished Ukrainian musicians of her generation. She won top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions held in the former Soviet Union – the Prokofiev, Lysenko and Zolota Osin' competitions. Soroka earned her master's degree and completed postgraduate studies in the Kyiv (Ukraine) Conservatory, and later served on its faculty in the chamber music department. She later received a doctor of musical arts degree from the Eastman School of Music.

Soroka has toured and recorded extensively with her husband, pianist Arthur Greene. Their Naxos recording of "Four Violin Sonatas" by William Bolcom was selected as a Recording of the Month with the highest ranking for both artistry and sound quality by Classics Today, and received positive reviews in various journals.

Greene was born in New York, and studied at The Juilliard School of Music with Martin Canin. Greene was hailed as "a profound musician" by the Washington Post, and "a masterful pianist with a massive technique" by the New York Times. He launched his career as a competition prizewinner: he won first prizes in the William Kapell and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, and was a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition. Greene served as a United States Artistic Ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency. He has toured Japan 12 times.

His orchestral repertoire includes all of the major concerti, and he has particularly played the Scriabin Concerto many times. Orchestras Greene has performed with include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah and National Symphonies, the Czech National Symphony, the Serbian Radio-Television Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony and the National Symphony of Ukraine. He is on the piano faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Finnish-born cellist Katri Ervamaa is a versatile performer who specializes in chamber music, new music and creative improvisation. She earned a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan. Her current groups include the Muse String Trio, Brave New Works new music ensemble (bravenewworks.org) and E3Q, an improvisation-based genre-defying trio with her husband Mark Kirschenmann and percussionist Michael Gould.

Ervamaa can be heard on Block M, AMP and Envoy Recordings Labels. She is on faculty at the University of Michigan's Residential College, where she is the head of the music program.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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