Praised for her "rich and resonant sound" (The New York Sun) and her ability to "make music speak" (The Colorado Springs Gazette), pianist ANGELINA GADELIYA leads a rich musical life as a soloist, chamber musician, new music expert, and educator. Her work with Ensemble Connect and the NYC-based Decoda ensemble has frequently brought her to the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, as well as to Germany, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, Princeton University, Vassar College, the Trinity Wall Street series, and various New York locales. Ms. Gadeliya’s recent performances also include solo and chamber music recitals in such venues as New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, Bowling Green State University, the New York Historical Society, Penn State, and Merkin Recital Hall in NYC.

Her festival affiliations include the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival, the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, the Green Box Music and Arts Festival in Colorado, and she has also appeared at the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, the Dakota Sky International Piano Festival, the Beethoven Master Course in Positano, Italy, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Reynosa International Piano Festival in Mexico, David Dubal’s lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 2007 Emerson String Quartet's Beethoven Project at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Gadeliya has appeared as soloist with orchestras across the US and has collaborated with such artists as Lucy Shelton, Anton Miller, Mihai Tetel, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, James Conlon, David Stern, Andrew Manze, Paul Nadler, David Bowlin, principal players of the New York Philharmonic, and the internationally acclaimed Mark Morris Dance Group. Ms. Gadeliya serves as the President of the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut and is the Assistant Professor in Residence of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

A passionate advocate of new music, Ms. Gadeliya has given numerous premiers of new works and has worked closely with composers Frederic Rzewski, Richard Danielpour, Richard Wilson, John Adams, Thomas Adès, Kati Agocs, Marc-André Dalbavie, Steve Reich, Steven Mackey, Daniel Bjarnason, Matthias Pintscher, Ofer Ben-Amots, and John Harbison. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, Mannes College, and has a Doctorate from Stony Brook University. Her principal mentors include Angela Cheng, Pavlina Dokovska, and Gilbert Kalish. Ms. Gadeliya currently resides in Glastonbury, CT with her husband Misha and their three children, Felix, Anastasia, and Luke. Her performances have been featured on New York’s WQXR as well as WWFM radio stations. For more information, please go to www.angelinagadeliya.com.

Violinist SOLOMIA SOROKA, born in L'viv, Ukraine, made her solo debut at age 10, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the L’viv Philharmonic Orchestra. Her playing combines the powerful background of the Ukrainian system with a passionate exploration of lesser played music, especially American and Ukrainian.

She 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). She has performed with orchestras in Ukraine, Australia, and the United States.

Ms. Soroka has performed premieres of a number of important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin, including works by Borys Lyatoshynsky, Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovych. Since her U.S. debut in 1997, she has performed throughout the United States. Her recitals in Washington DC were part of the Smithsonian Institute performing arts series and she received the following review in the Washington Post:
“Soroka is a superbly equipped violinist, at ease with the technical challenges of Sarasate or of Jeno Hubay’s Czardas No. 2, but even more impressive in the gentler moments.... Her tone is warm and mellow on the low strings, brilliant on the high strings, perfectly controlled and expressively used.”

Solomia Soroka has toured and recorded extensively with her husband, the pianist Arthur Greene. Their Naxos recording of Four Violin Sonatas by William Bolcom was selected as Recording of the Month with the highest ranking for both artistry and sound quality by Classics Today, and received reviews in various distinguished journals:
“Another virtuoso piece...confidently delivered by this brilliant duo” (Gramophone) Their recording of the violin sonatas of Nikolai Roslavets, also for Naxos, has received international attention. “Soroka seemed utterly confident, catching a haunting, languid quality within Roslavets’s elusive harmonic idiom......” (The Strad).

In the past eight years Soroka has been recording for Toccata Records, based in London, where she made six premier recordings, of music by American composer Arthur Hartmann, Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk, Mykola Lysenko, and Yevhen Stankovych, and Holocaust composers Leone Sinigaglia and Bernhard Sekles.

Ms. Soroka’s current passion is for unknown American music from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. She has gathered a substantial collection of rare scores of American sonatas from that period by lesser-known American composers, and is in a process of recording and releasing them online. She will tour US universities with lecture-recitals introducing this unknown music to American students, academia and a general audience.

Solomia Soroka is currently a violin professor at Goshen College, Indiana, and is an artistic director of the Sherer Violin/Piano Competition for young musicians. Ms. Soroka has served on the faculty of chamber music at the Kiev Conservatory, and has taught at the Music Fest Perugia in Italy, the Castleman Quartet Program, Pilsen Summer Academy, and Schlern Music Festival. She is active giving masterclasses in her native Ukraine, USA, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Czech Republic, and Italy. She studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman. Website information: www.solomiasoroka.com

SERGEI VASSILIEV recently founded Educational Partnerships Immersive Concerts (EPIC) - an original concert series that received Peak Arts Prize upon its inception in 2020. EPIC has since become an acclaimed chamber music series and has enjoyed a consistent confluence of world class talent such as principal musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Paris National Opera Orchestra. More information about EPIC can be found at epicmustsee.org.

Vassiliev has served as principal clarinetist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009. Sergei appeared in the US and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. Vassiliev performed chamber music at Chatter, Festival Mozaic, Colorado College Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Festival, and Green Box Arts Festival among others. Sergei held principal clarinet positions with Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, and has performed with Houston, Colorado Symphonies as well as many other symphony orchestras. In 2019, he was honored to be featured in the “Signature Series” with the CSPO where he played the role of artistic director as well as soloist. 

Sergei maintains a sought-after teaching studio in Colorado Springs and serves on the faculties of the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs and Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He has presented masterclasses at University of Connecticut and Kharkiv Conservatory in Ukraine. Vassiliev's principal teachers are Yehuda Gilad, Richard Hawkins, Fred Ormand, and Michael Webster.

He holds degrees and awards from University of Michigan, Rice University, and University of Southern California. Sergei is a D’Addario Artist.