Faculty Showcase Recital Series
Tickets
Tickets for the Faculty Recital Series are $6 for adults, $4 for seniors and students. Goshen College students receive one free ticket with a valid student ID.
Tickets are available at the door only.
1. Matthew Hill, piano
Saturday 09.23.06 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Matthew Hill is associate professor of music at Goshen
College where he teaches piano and related courses. He 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. In addition to other solo and collaborative performances
at Goshen College, Professor Hill has also performed with the UW-Madison
Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, on Wisconsin Public Radio's Live
from the Elvehjem and has also performed at the White House in Washington
D.C. as accompanist for the Wausau Conservatory Choraliers Children's
Choir. Dr. Hill also lectures at the Goshen College Piano Workshop,
has been published in Clavier, and has been a guest presenter at
several professional conferences
2. Solomia Soroka, violin & Arthur Greene, piano
Saturday 10.21.06 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Solomia Soroka joined the faculty at Goshen College as assistant
professor of music in 2004, 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.
3. John Graulty, clarinet & friends
Saturday 01.13.2007 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
John Graulty is chair of the music department at Goshen College where he also
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.
4. Goshen College Brass Faculty
Saturday 01.20.05 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Members of the Goshen College Music Department brass faculty, all of whom
are also members of the Fort
Wayne Philharmonic, will perform a concert
of chamber music for brass in Rieth Recital Hall.
5. Beverly Lapp & Christine Larson Seitz, duo-piano
Saturday 03.17.05 7:30 pm Sauder Concert Hall
Beverly Lapp, associate professor of music at Goshen College, teaches piano,
piano pedagogy, humanities and aural skills. A Goshen College graduate,
she has studied piano and piano pedagogy with Marvin Blickenstaff, Harold
Zabrack, Frances Clark, Louise Goss, and Phyllis Lehrer. She received
her M.M. in piano performance and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College
of Rider University in Princeton, NJ in 1993. She is co-coordinator
of the annual Goshen College Piano Workshop and Academy, and is the Internships/Practica
Committee chair for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She
moderated the pre-conference seminar on collegiate pedagogy at the NCKP in
Chicago in 2003.
Christine Larson Seitz has served as assistant professor of music at Goshen College since 1999, where she currently teaches music technology and music theory courses and serves as staff accompanist. Having previously taught at IUSB and Bethel College, Mishawaka, she has been a sought-after recital accompanist in Michiana for 35 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a master’s in studio accompanying from Indiana University South Bend, studying under Robert Hamilton and John Owings. Since 1978 Christine has been the accompanist and assistant director for the St. Joseph Valley Camerata, and has been the organist at First United Methodist Church in Mishawaka since 1987.