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The Selma Moidel Smith Recital

The Selma Moidel Smith Recital

Thursday, June 15, 3:00 p.m.

Lani Hall

Performers

Phyllis Pan

Piano See Bio

Phyllis Pan began formal studies on piano at the age of five. Born in Los Angeles, she is completed her Bachelor’s Degree under the tutelage of distinguished professor Menahem Pressler at the Jacobs School of Music, where she was named a Jacobs Scholar and offered a full scholarship in recognition of her outstanding artistic and academic achievements.

Phyllis has won numerous prizes and honors at piano competitions in the United States, including a Special Prize at the Wideman International Piano Competition, First Prize at the Paducah Symphony Concerto Competition, and Second Prize at the Hellam Young Artist’s Concerto Competition in 2017, Third Prize at the Los Angeles Young Musicians International Piano Competition, and Winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters in 2016; First Prize at the Music Teacher’s Association of California State Solo Competition, and First Prize at the Los Angeles Golden Star Young Musicians Piano Competition in 2014; and Grand Prize and Best Performance at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition in 2012. She has attended several summer festivals, including Chautauqua Institution and Tanglewood Institute.

At school, Phyllis is an active chamber musician, staff accompanist, private piano teacher, and orchestral pianist.

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Morgan Kelly Moss

Composer See Bio

Morgan Kelly Moss (B.M. Temple University, Composition and Piano Performance Double Major, M.A. UCLA, Composition) has a sound world that is described as neo-American with inspiration from nature, and always spirited with a twinge of optimism. Recently, Moss’s “Storks” for piano trio was selected in a call for scores by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. She was also recently accorded Emerging Composer by Tribeca New Music Competition. Moss is also very active in scoring music for film, and in 2022 composed her first feature film score which was released in theaters in July, 2022. She is very proud to be the founder of Everywhere Music Company, a teacher of piano, composition, theory, and voice at the Music Studio of Patricia Keith, as well as a lab teacher at UCLA for Introduction to Musicianship. Moss plans to graduate from UCLA in 2024, and continue to grow her career as a composer and teacher.

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Repertoire

Fazil Say (b. 1970)

Black Earth

 

Selma Moidel Smith (b. 1919)

Waltz in E Minor, No. 1

Tango in C Minor

Waltz in B-flat Minor, No. 2

 

Morgan Kelly Moss (b. 2000)

“Storks” Piano Trio

Michelle Sheehy, violin

Benjamin Fleischacker, cello

Selma Moidel Smith Recital commission

 

Selma Moidel Smith

Waltz in A Minor, No. 1

Beguine in F Minor

Night Waltz

 

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Notturno from 6 Pieces for Piano

 

Pedro Osuna (b. 1997)

Ludwig’s Music Box

world premiere

 

Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)

Variations, Op. 41