Nancy Knight Gilpin Piano Dedication Concert

“Nancy Knight Gilpin Piano Dedication Concert” is an inauguration concert for a newly purchased Steinway Concert Grand Piano. The funds were donated to The W’s Department of Music in memory of Nancy Knight Gilpin, music alumna class of 1969. The gift was from her husband Michael D. Gilpin of Hattiesburg.

Nancy Knight Gilpin Piano Dedication Concert

Program

Sonata in E Major K 380                                                        Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in D Major K 96
Valentin M.  Bogdan, piano

Venise (Venice) from “Esquisses Italiennes” (Italian Sketches)       Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)   
Nocturne in G Minor                                                                              Fanny Hansel (1805-1847)
Un Réve en Mer, (A Dream at Sea) Op. 28                                           Teresa Carreño

Julia Mortyakova, piano

Moment Musicaux (Musical Moment) Op. 16 No. 5                 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1843)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli                                                              Franz Liszt (1811-1888)

Valentin M. Bogdan, piano

Sonata in C Minor, Op 21                                                               Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Allegro Appassionato

Andante

Allegro

            Julia Mortyakova, piano

Slavonic Dance for Piano Four Hands, Op 72 No. 2                      Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Una Noche de Garufa                                                                       Eduardo Arolas (1892-1924)
Arranged by Valentin M. Bogdan

  Julia Mortyakova, piano
Valentin M. Bogdan, piano

Dr. Julia Mortyakova is professor and chair of the Department of Music at the university. She is the recipient of the 2021 Mississippi Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship and is the 2017 Honored Artist (Mississippi State Committee National Museum of Women in the Arts). Mortyakova is a laureate of the 2014 American Prize for her performance Cécile Chaminade, and the winner of the 2012 Sigma Alpha Iota Career Performance Grant. She maintains an international performing career and has performed in Bulgaria, Canada, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and throughout the U.S. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Vanderbilt University, New York University and the University of Miami. The Mortyakova/Bogdan Piano Duo are the second prize winners of the 2017 Ellis Duo Piano Competition.

Dr.  Valentin M. Bogdan joined The W in 2013 and is currently professor of music. He has concertized in Europe, North America and the Middle East, in the United States, Canada, Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania and Jordan. He has released two solo albums, “The Grands of Piano” and “Live in Concert” and two piano duo albums “Journey for Two” and “Music by Women,” part of the Mortyakova/Bogdan piano duo. Throughout his career, he has received many awards including:  the 2018 Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, the 2nd prize at the Ellis Duo Piano Competition, 2nd Prize at the International Varna Symphonic Workshop (Concerto Competition), winner of the WSU Concerto Competition and semifinalist in the American Prize. He is a graduate of Wayne State University, Michigan State University and University of Miami.