Faculty Recital Series
Tickets
Tickets for the Faculty Recital Series are $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students. Goshen College students receive one free ticket with a valid student ID.
To order tickets, please call the Goshen College Welcome Center at (574) 535-7566.
Goshen College Music Faculty
Saturday 09.25.04 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Members of the Goshen College
Music Faculty will present a diverse selection of chamber music works in
the inaugural Faculty Recital of the 2004-2005 season.
Dr. Ray Kilburn, piano
Masterclass: Saturday 09.25.04 3:00 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Concert: Saturday 09.25.04 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Pianist Dr. Ray Kilburn, recognized as being among Canada’s most gifted
artists, now holds dual citizenship and resides in the United States. His
career has taken him throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, China
and Japan, and critics have been unanimous in praise of his outstanding technical
abilities and artistic temperament. After several years as tenured faculty
at Peace College, he now holds an artist-faculty position in piano performance
and chamber music at Ball State University.
Jessica Weber, piano
Saturday 11.13.2004 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Jessica Weber, Piano Program Director for the Goshen College Community School
of the Arts, earned an M.M. in piano performance with a piano pedagogy emphasis
from the University of Oklahoma, and a B.A. from Western Michigan University.
Weber has taught piano at the Nash Piano Studio in Kalamazoo, Mich. and has
a special interest in 20th Century music. Her previous teachers include Marvin
Blickenstaff, Matthew Hill, and Jeongwon Ham.
John Graulty, clarinet; Matthew Hill, piano, with Rosalyn Troiano, viola & David Machavariani, cello
Saturday 11.20.04 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
John Graulty is Associate Professor of Music at Goshen College where he teaches
clarinet and directs the Goshen College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. He holds
degrees in clarinet performance from the Peabody and New England Conservatories,
and his doctoral degree is from Columbia University-Teachers College (NY) where
he studied with master teacher Kalmen Opperman. John hosts and directs an annual
Clarinet Summit for advanced clarinet students from all over the world.
Matthew Hill is Associate Professor of Music at Goshen College where he teaches piano, piano pedagogy and literature, music history, and humanities. Matthew has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the tutelage of Howard Karp and has also studied with the renowned Beethoven interpreter Claude Frank. Professor Hill has previously been on the piano faculties at the Wausau Conservatory of Music (WI), the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County, and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
Goshen College Music Faculty
Friday 01.21.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Members of the Goshen College
Music Faculty will present a diverse selection of chamber music works.
Solomia Soroka, violin and Arthur Greene, piano
Sunday 02.13.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Solomia Soroka recently joined the faculty at Goshen College as assistant
professor of music, where she teaches applied violin and viola, chamber
music, advanced music theory, and music literature classes. Born in the
Ukraine, Dr. Soroka made her solo debut with the Liviv Philharmonic Orchestra
at the age of 10. She completed graduate and post-graduate studies at the
National Music Academy of Ukraine, and holds her DMA from Eastman School
of Music in Rochester, NY. She has appeared as soloist and chamber musician
in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, and the U.S.
The winner of top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions,
Dr. Soroka has served as Artist-in-Residence at James Cook University in
Australia from 1994-1997, and has given the Australian and American premieres
of several important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin.
David Machavariani, cello
Friday 02.25.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Machavariani, originally from the Republic of Georgia, is an assistant principal
in the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and Columbia Missouri Festival Chamber
Orchestra. Badridze, also from the Republic of Georgia, is the soloist
of the Tbilisi (Georgia) Symphony Orchestra. Machavariani was surrounded
by music from early childhood, guided by his parents -- both eminent Georgian
musicians. His official musical training started at the age of eight in
a special music school for gifted children in the Georgian capital. Machavariani
debuted at the age of 14 with the Georgian National Symphony. He was part
of the cello faculty in Surami, Georgia, from 1985 to 1988, and then taught
at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire from 1990 to 1992. By invitation of
Indiana University at South Bend in 1992, Machavariani came to the United
States and earned a master's degree and artist diploma. He was principal
cello in Elkhart Symphony Orchestra and Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra in
St. Joseph, Mich. In 2001, Machavariani became an adjunct faculty at Goshen
College, and also at Indiana University at South Bend in 2002.
Opus 41 Pipe Organ Dedication Week: May 1 - May 8, 2005
The Goshen College Music Department and Music Center will inaugurate and dedicate its new Taylor & Boody 1600-pipe two rank pipe organ in Rieth Recital Hall with a series of concerts between May 1 and May 8, 2005. Distinguished guests, alumni, and Goshen College faculty members will perform. Individual concerts are listed below.
Organ Dedication Concert: Craig Cramer, organ
Sunday 05.01.04
7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Craig Cramer is Professor of Organ at the University
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir
College and the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree in Organ Performance. The Eastman School also awarded him the
prestigious Performer's Certificate in Organ. He has studied with Russell
Saunders, William Hays, James Drake, David Boe, and André Marchal
(Paris). Mr. Cramer has been named the winner of several competitions, including
the Alexander McCurdy Competition in Organ Performance at Westminster Choir
College and the National Organ Competition in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Christine Thögerson, organ with Rosann Penner-Kauffman
Tuesday 05.03.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Christine Thogersen has been Assistant Professor of Music at Goshen
College since 1997 and also teaches general music at Benton Elementary School. Her
undergraduate work in Music Education was completed at Goshen College, and
she holds Masters Degrees from Illinois State (Music Education) and the Berliner
Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin, Germany (Church Music).
While in Germany Christine worked as organist and choir director in the Evangelische Kirche, as well as organizing and playing concerts in Berlin and the Midwest, USA. She has been part of the Rieth Hall organ project since its beginning in 1999.
This Organ's Distinctive Tuning: Lecture/Demonstration by Bradley Lehman
Thursday 05.05.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Opus 41 is
the first organ since the 18th century to be built using Johann Sebastian
Bach's tuning. Bach specified this method on the title page of his Well-Tempered
Clavier, 1722, submitted as part of his audition materials for a professional
position in Leipzig. Bach's organ music and vocal music from Leipzig confirm
that this was his all-purpose tuning solution for church use, in addition
to deployment on harpsichords and clavichords. It offers complete flexibility
to use all scales and all chords, as smoothly as equal temperament does;
but unlike equal temperament it has a built-in range of subtle expressive
nuances. Every key signature has a distinct "personality" from
every other: music with sharps sounds bright, while music in flats is more
mellow and plaintive.
GC alumnus Bradley Lehman ('86) discovered this lost temperament in 2004. After his B.A. in both music and mathematics at Goshen, Lehman earned two master's degrees and the Doctoral of Musical Arts (harpsichord performance) from the University of Michigan. His research article about Bach's tuning has been published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. It is presented and explained at Lehman's "LaripS" web site, http://www.larips.com .
Alumni Organ Concert: Mark Herris, organ
Friday 05.06.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Mark Herris, a native of Canton, Ohio, is a doctoral student at
Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is studying organ literature and
performance with Christopher Young. He serves as Director of Music
Ministries at Calvary United Methodist Church in Brownsburg, Indiana, where
he administers a comprehensive program of eight vocal and handbell choirs
in addition to his playing responsibilities. Herris received a B.A. in Music
from Goshen College in 1996.