Goshen College’s Soroka, violin, to collaborate with cello and piano for …

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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