Goshen College Associate Professor of Music and violinist Solomia Soroka will present a recital with husband and University of Michigan pianist Arthur Greene and Finnish-born cellist Katri Ervamaa on Friday, January 13 in Rieth Recital Hall. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m.

The program features music for violin, cello and piano by 20th century composers Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Zoltan Kodaly, and Eugene Ysaye.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. GC faculty, staff and students are free with ID.

Violinist Solomia Soroka, 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. Ms. Soroka earned her master?s degree summa cum laude and completed postgraduate studies in the Kyiv Conservatory, and later served on its faculty in the chamber music department. She also has a D.M.A degree from the Eastman School of Music. Solomia 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. Solomia Soroka is currently a violin professor at Goshen College. She studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman.

Arthur Greene was born in New York, and studied at Juilliard with Martin Canin. Mr. 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 twelve times. His orchestral repertoire includes all of the major concerti, and he has particularly played the Scriabin Concerto many times. Orchestras Mr. 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, DMA (University of Michigan), is a versatile performer, who specializes in chamber music, new music and creative improvisation. 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. She can be heard on Block M, AMP and Envoy Recordings Labels. Katri is on faculty at the University of Michigan?s Residential College, where she is the Head of the Music Program. She is also a mother of three and lives in Ann Arbor, MI with her family. For more information, go to www.Katrimusic.com