University of Michigan Professor of Piano Arthur Greene will present a solo piano recita on Friday, October 9 in the Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall. The solo piano recital will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The first half of Greene's program will feature selected mazurkas and the B-minor Piano Sonata by Frederic Chopin, and the second half will feature the "Concord" Sonata No. 2 by Charles Ives.

Born in New York, Arthur Greene studied at Juilliard with Martin Canin. Greene was a Gold Medal winner in the William Kapell and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, and a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition.

Greene has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah, and National Symphonies, the Czech National Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and many others. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Moscow Rachmaninov Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Lisbon Sao Paulo Opera House, Hong Kong City Hall and concert houses in Shanghai and Beijing.

Greene has been on the faculty at the School since 1990. He has won the Harold Haugh Award for Excellence in Studio Teaching. His current and former students include prizewinners in international competitions, and his former students hold important teaching posts throughout the United States.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. Goshen College faculty/staff/students are free with ID. Available online at http://www.goshen.edu/tickets or by calling (574) 535-7566.