The Selma Moidel Smith Recital Featuring Gabrielle Sipen

Gabrielle Sipen is a Los Angeles born pianist and educator whose performances have spanned the United States and Europe in venues including Chopin’s home at Zelazowa Wola, Zipper Concert Hall, Skirball Cultural Center, Steinway Gallery, and Richard Nixon Presidential Library.

Since her orchestral debut at the age of 12 with the Southwestern Youth Festival Orchestra, Gabrielle has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Bach Festival Orchestra, Brentwood Westwood Symphony Orchestra, Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, and Polish Festival Orchestra.

Gabrielle is a prizewinner of many competitions, including the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford CT, and X Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. She was a Young Musicians Foundation scholarship recipient and has received awards at the state and national level in MTNA, MTAC, and CAPMT competitions.

Currently, Gabrielle is pursuing her MM in Piano Performance at UCLA with Dr. Inna Faliks. Prior to her graduate studies, Gabrielle studied with Roza Yoder. She has participated in masterclasses with many distinguished musicians including Dina Joffe, Pavel Nerssesian, Natalia Troull, Eteri Andjaparidze, Edward Wolanin, Vitaly Margulis, Dmitry Rachmanov, and Gila Goldstein.
In addition to her piano studies, Gabrielle received a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from UCLA. She works as a Behavioral Neuroscience Teaching Assistant at UCLA and is a research assistant at USC’s Brain & Music Lab. Combining her passion for music and neuroscience, Gabrielle is particularly interested in understanding how people experience music in order to optimize musicians’ learning process.