Shelly Moorman-Stahlman Performs Solo Piano Recital at Lebanon Valley College

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Shelly Moorman-Stahlman presents a solo piano recital on Jan. 29

ANNVILLE, PA (01/17/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College professor Dr. Shelly Moorman-Stahlman presents a solo piano recital exploring the works and influence of Bach, Schubert, and Schumann on Sunday, January 29, at 3 p.m. in Lutz Hall of the Blair Music Center. Concert admission is free and open to the public.

The program opens with Bach's famous Italian Concerto "BWV 971," in which Bach imitates the qualities of a concerto with a solo keyboard instrument. Moorman-Stahlman includes another Baroque-style work with Sofia Gubaidulina's "Invention." This composer, born in Russian in 1931, has an interest in Baroque genres and is influenced by the music of Bach, but "Invention" is set in a jazzy syncopated rhythm.

The concert also features two works influenced by Schubert. Schubert's "Sonata in B Flat Major" is a mature work written during the last months of the composer's life. It conveys a depth of emotional expression and is seated in the Romantic tradition. The program concludes with Schumann's "Carnaval, op. 9," which originated in a set of variations on a theme by Schubert. Though the original set of variations was discarded, Schumann retained the theme in his opening movement of this work. "Carnaval," written in 1834–1835, is a collection of short pieces representing masked revelers at Carnival.

Moorman-Stahlman, LVC professor of music, teaches organ, piano, class piano, and church music courses. Her students have received top honors in numerous competitions. 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. She has studied piano with Ruth Slenczynska, Santiago Rodriguez, and John McIntyre, and organ with Delbert Disselhorst, Delores Bruch, John Ditto, and Harald Vogel.

A frequent piano and organ recitalist throughout the Midwest and East Coast, she has garnered an impressive array of competition credits which include Semi-Finalist at the St. Albans International Organ Competition in England, Audience Prize at 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 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, "player of technical command" by the Kansas City Star, and "transcendent musical experience" by pip-org-l. She has also led workshops and master classes for conventions, colleges, and churches.

Most recently she has presented organ recitals at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, University of Arizona, Tucson, RLDS Temple in Kansas City, Christ the King Cathedral in Atlanta, and for the Region III AGO Convention. Her recent piano performances include a performance of the Rachmaninov "Piano Concerto No. 2" with the Central Pennsylvania Orchestra, and the Beethoven "Concerto No. 1" with the Chamber Orchestra in Harrisburg. On February 10, she will perform the Rachmanionv "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" with the Hershey Symphony Orchestra.