Goshen College music professors Dr. José Rocha, cello, and Dr. Matthew Hill, piano, will present a faculty recital in Rieth Recital Hall on Friday, March 18, 2016. The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Jose Rocha, Associate Professor of Music at Goshen College and director of the Goshen College Symphony, is a sought after conductor and cellist in the United States and Mexico. Strongly committed to music education, Rocha has taught and directed middle school and high school orchestras in Florida, Texas, and Mississippi for the past 15 years. His ensembles consistently earned top honors and awards at regional contests, were recognized as finalists in the TMEA Honor Orchestra Competition, and also declared Winners in the Mark of Excellence National Orchestra Honors Contest. Rocha made his Carnegie Hall Debut leading the Johnston Sinfonia Orchestra in 2014. Rocha holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Houston, and Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Florida.

Dr. Matthew Hill, pianist and Goshen College professor of music, teaches piano, chamber music, music history, and pedagogy. He is an active recitalist, chamber musician, concerto performer, and master classes teacher. His interests in monasticism, theology, and the role of silence in music, engage his teaching, scholarship, and performing with a unique perspective and depth. In the summer of 2013 he was on the piano faculty at the Schlern International Music Festival in northern Italy and also currently teaches on the piano faculty at the prestigious Interlochen Fine Arts Summer Camp. He has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Howard Karp and has also studied with the renowned Beethoven performer Claude Frank, as well as with Dr. Richard Angeletti, and Dr. Garik Pedersen.