Organist Shelly Moorman-Stahlman to Perform at Lebanon Valley College on Sept. 14

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Organist Shelly Moorman-Stahlman will perform at Lebanon Valley College on Sept. 14

ANNVILLE, PA (08/26/2014)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College organist and professor of music Dr. Shelly Moorman-Stahlman will combine forces with her Music Department colleagues on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 3 p.m. in Miller Chapel, in a concert featuring organ with other instruments. The program is free and open to the public.

The program will include "Four Small Duets for Two Keyboard Instruments" by C.P.E. Bach in honor of C.P.E's 300-year anniversary. The work will be assisted Dr. Brenda Leach, adjunct instructor in music. The "Organ Concerto in F Major" by George Frederick Handel will utilize a string ensemble featuring violin instructor Michael Gamon '06; Jenny Gamon, who studied piano with Moorman-Stahlman during her high school years before pursuing viola at Peabody; Dr. Marian Dura, director of the Master of Music Education program at LVC; cello instructor Ai-Lin Hseih; and string bass instructor Timothy Wolfe '07. Moorman-Stahlman will include the major work for organ, "Mycenea: Graveshaft V" written by her colleague and friend, Dr. Scott Eggert, LVC professor emeritus and past composer-in-residence for the College. "Mycenea" was written in 1998, the same year as a work by Dan Locklair, "Sonata da Chiesa for Flute and Organ," which will be performed by Michelle Barraclough, flute instructor at LVC. Moorman-Stahlman will also perform J.S. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547" and movements from Locklair's "Rubrics for Solo Organ."

A frequent recitalist as both an organist and pianist throughout the Midwest and East Coast, Moorman-Stahlman has garnered an impressive array of competition credits which include semi-finalist at the St. Albans International Organ Competition in England; audience prize at the Spivey International Competition; finalist in the Arthur Poister Competition; second prize in the MTNA National Wurlitzer Competition; and finalist, Region VI AGO Competition.

Moorman-Stahlman teaches organ, piano, and church music courses. Students under her instruction have received top honors in numerous competitions. She has studied piano with Ruth Slenczynska, Santiago Rodriguez, and John McIntyre, and organ with Delbert Disselhorst, Delores Bruch, John Ditto, and Harald Vogel. Moorman-Stahlman holds bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a doctor of musical arts from the University of Iowa.

Moorman-Stahlman has been a featured artist at major venues in Washington, D.C., New York City, and across the Midwest, receiving outstanding reviews such as "knock out performance" by the Philadelphia Inquirer and "player of technical command" by the Kansas City Star. She has also led workshops and master classes for conventions, colleges, and churches.

Lebanon Valley College offers numerous public performances by students, faculty, and guests of the College throughout the semester. For the compete list of recitals this fall, visit http://www.lvc.edu/music/student-recitals.aspx.