Spouses offer voice and piano performance in Feb. 20 Goshen College recital

 

GOSHEN, Ind. -- On Feb. 20, spouses Matthew Hill, associate professor of music, and Community School of the Arts voice faculty Sandra Hill will perform a recital of solo piano and vocal works at 7:30 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall on the Goshen College campus.

Listeners will enjoy a variety of musical styles, beginning with a short transcription of a movement of a flute sonata by J.S. Bach arranged by pianist Wilhelm Kempff, as well as other works for solo piano by Clementi and Liszt. Sandra will perform pieces ranging from art songs by Purcell and Debussy to the more contemporary "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Soundheim's "Sweeney Todd." Sandra will conclude this program with the virtuosic coloratura doll aria from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann."

The Hills have been performing together since they met at the Wausau Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin where they were both artist-teaching faculty.

Matthew Hill, who teaches applied piano and other music department courses at Goshen College, holds a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Howard Karp. Hill was also a student of the renowned Beethoven interpreter Claude Frank. He has previously been on the piano faculties at the Wausau Conservatory of Music (Wis.), the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.

Matthew has performed with several university orchestras including a performance of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony and has also performed with the Central Wisconsin Symphony and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He has performed on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Live from the Elvehjem" and has also performed at the White House in Washington, D.C., as accompanist for the Wausau Conservatory "Choraliers" Children’s Choir. In addition to other solo and collaborative performances, Matthew presents lectures at the Goshen College Piano Workshop, has been published in "Clavier," is a guest presenter for various music teacher associations and has been an invited presenter for the College Music Society and other professional organizations.

Sandra Hill, coloratura soprano, is a highly sought after voice teacher in the Goshen/Elkhart area and has been an adjunct voice instructor at Goshen College. She teaches at the Credo Choral Camp held on the Goshen College campus, and also taught at the Wausau Conservatory of Music. She is a graduate of the music program at the University of Texas-Austin holding a master's degree in vocal performance; she has also studied extensively with master voice teacher Herald Stark.

Sandra has performed on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Live from the Elvehjem" and has appeared in a variety of musical and operatic roles including Julie Jordan in "Carousel," Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel," Sister Mary Amnesia in "Nunsense," and as princess Zara with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Madison Sovoyards in a Wisconsin premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Utopia Limited." In 1997 she was chosen to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Internship Program at Pennsylvania State University where she studied with master teacher Jean Westerman Gregg. Sandra also directed the Conservatory Choraliers, a children's choir which performed with a New York touring company in Green Bay, Wis., in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Admission to the recital is $5 general admission and $3 seniors and students. Tickets available at the door. For more information call the Goshen College Welcome Center at (574) 535-7566 or e-mail joannp@goshen.edu.

Goshen College, established in 1894, is a four-year residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college's Christ-centered core values -- passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership -- prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron's Best Buys in Education, Kaplan's "Most Interesting Colleges" guide and U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" edition, which named Goshen a "least debt college." Visit https://www.goshen.edu/.

Editors: For more information, contact Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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