Goshen College music professors to present recital of American classical music
Event: Solomia Soroka, violin & Matthew Hill, piano
Date & Time: Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Tickets: $8 adults, $6 seniors/students. Online at goshen.edu/tickets or (574) 535-7566. GC faculty/staff/students free with valid ID.
Goshen College music professors Solomia Soroka, violin, & Matthew Hill, piano, will present a recital of American music on Friday, Feb. 23 in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Soroka’s and Hill’s program will feature works by lesser known American classical music composers, including Sonata in D Major by Rossetter G. Cole; Virtuoso Etudes on Songs by George Gershwin by Earl Wild; Selections from Porgy & Bess for Violin and Piano by George Gershwin, transcribed by Jascha Heifetz; and African-American composer William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano.
Tickets are $8 adults, $6 seniors/students. Online at goshen.edu/tickets or (574) 535-7566. Patrons are advised to purchase tickets in advance.
Violinist Solomia Soroka, DMA, born in L’viv, Ukraine, 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. Dr. Soroka earned her master’s degree and completed postgraduate studies in the Kyiv Conservatory, and later served on its faculty in the chamber music department. Her doctoral degree is from the Eastman School of Music. Solomia Soroka appears with concerts in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has performed premieres of a number of important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin. She made four recordings for Naxos, for which she received excellent reviews in major music magazines in the US and Europe. For the past seven years Soroka has been recording for Toccata Classics in London, to make world premier recordings of American, Ukrainian and Holocaust composers. Solomia Soroka is a violin professor at Goshen College. During the summer she conducts masterclasses in the US, Italy and Ukraine. Soroka studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman.
Matthew Hill, DMA, pianist and Goshen College professor of music, teaches piano, chamber music, music history, and as a result of the strong influence from his wife and daughter, also teaches a general education course in Opera and Musical Theatre.
He has studied with such renowned musicians as Howard Karp and Claude Frank, whose respective pedagogical genealogies include Rosina Lhévinne and Arthur Schnabel. This past heritage of musical thought, in addition to his interests in monastic discipline and the role of silence in music, shapes and forms his pianism, his approaches to interpretation, and his teaching. He has taught, presented master classes, and performed in Italy, China, and at the prestigious Interlochen Fine Arts Summer Camp, as well as at the Interlochen Arts Academy. He has published articles on teaching, contributed a chapter to the text Silence, Music, Silent Music (Ashgate), and has recorded a CD, Silent Colors, on the Blue Griffen label. His students have won various competitions – including a variety of concerto performances, and have also gone onto graduate study at such schools as the University of Oklahoma, Ball State University, Bowling Green University, Westminster Choir College, the University of South Florida, Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.