Violinist Solomia Soroka, born in L'viv, Ukraine, made her solo debut at age 10. Ms.Soroka has appeared as soloist and as chamber musician at concerts and festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Ukraine, USA, Canada, China, Korea, and Taiwan. She is praised for being “a truly wonderful musician” (The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand), her “technical mastery…ferocity, light and mystic lyricism” (Daily Freeman, New York), and as one who “plays with great warmth and authority” (BBC Music Magazine).
Ms. Soroka performed premieres of a number of important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin, including works by Borys Lyatoshynsky, Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovytch. Since her U.S. debut in 1997, she has performed throughout the United States. Solomia Soroka has toured and recorded extensively with her husband, the American 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.
In the past six years Soroka has been recording for Toccata Records, based in London, where she made five premier recordings, of music by American composer Arthur Hartmann, Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk and Mykola Lysenko, and Holocaust composers Leone Sinigaglia and Bernhard Sekles.
Solomia Soroka is currently a violin professor at Goshen College, Indiana, and is on the faculty of Castleman Quartet Program, and Schlern Music Festival. She studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman.