I am a versatile pianist who can sight read difficult classical music as well as play jazz charts play by ear, transpose and transcribe music.
Besides as a instrumentalist, I am aslo a singer who is experienced at working with vocalists and chorus. Please visit my websites to hear my compositions and performance.
www.mavispan.com
Additional Info:
Mavis Pan was born in Taiwan where she began piano lessons at the age of four, attending the Stella Matutina Girls School, where she was enrolled in the prestigious Specialized Music program. Ms. Pan received rigorous training in piano, voice, music theory and ear training until the family immigrated to America when Ms. Pan was seventeen, locating to New Jersey. There she studied privately with Sherry Fan. performed with the high school big band and choir groups and won Best Accompanist in 1996s High School Choral Festival competition. Upon her high school graduation she gave a debut solo piano recital at Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University.
As an undergraduate, majoring in jazz piano performance at New York University, Ms. Pan studied jazz piano with Don Freeman, Frank Kimbrough, Peter Malinverni, classical piano with Fabio Gardenal, and vocals with Ann Phillips. She sang with the five-time Gammy Award winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, and continued her studies at Columbia University, where she studied conducting and voice with Dino Anagnost and earning a Masters Degree in Music & Music Education.
Ms. Pan was a finalist of the YPMP-CACA piano competition and has performed at Carnegie Halls Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Centers New York State Theater and Alice Tully Hall, and performed in the Opening Night Gala of the Asian Nights celebration at Shea Stadium in 2004.
A composer, pianist, conductor, vocalist, and dancer, Ms. Pan has written and performed her own choral originals, jazz originals and arrangements, chamber music, and solo instrumental and vocal works across the United States, Europe and Asia. She was the composer-in-residence and choir director at Emanuel Presbyterian Church in New York for two years, where she premiered numerous new works with the choir and chamber orchestra. Recently, the Kiev Philharmonic Symphony recorded her choral work, A Christmas Carol, under the ERM label, available on Amazon.com and by other major distributors.
Ms. Pan currently studies composition with Dr. Conrad Cummings and performs and teaches in the metropolitan New York area.