Join us at the The River House for a classical concert under the stars with four classical musicians!

Performers:

Andrea Diggs
Flute and voice

Andrea Diggs earned a Bachelor (2002) and Master (2004) of Music in Flute Performance from Shenandoah University Conservatory in Winchester, VA. While there she studied with Frances Lapp Averitt and Charlene Romano with additional training from Jennifer Marlowe and LaVerne Sargent.

Ms. Diggs has adjudicated instrumental and vocal students for many different events, including Solo &Ensemble Festivals in WV, VA, and MD, Concerto Competitions in VA and MD, All-State auditions in WV and MD, and Governor’s School in VA.

Camilo Pérez-Mejía
Cello

Mr. Pérez-Mejía earned a Bachelor of Music in 1998 from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2000, he moved to Winchester, VA to study at Shenandoah University to study with Julian Tryczynski, cellist of Trio Cracovia.

In 2012 Mr. Pérez-Mejía became the founding music director of the Charles Washington Symphony Orchestra and continues to direct this semi-professional ensemble, which includes outstanding high school students, in unexpected community settings. He is also music director and conductor of the Shepherd Community Orchestra, which is a home to community members and Shepherd University students. This past year, he had the honor of conducting his fellow faculty cellists at the Farewell Concert of Cellospeak and was as guest conductor for the Loudoun Symphony.

Heidi Stoika
Piano

Heidi Stoika graduated from Shepherd University in 2018 where she studied under Dr. Yu-Hsuan Liao and received a B.A. in Piano Pedagogy. While attending Shepherd, she participated in Women’s Camerata, Masterworks Chorale, Jazz Band, Jazz Combos and Piano Ensemble. Heidi has been teaching piano through the Community Music Program at Shepherd since 2016, and she is also the adjunct piano instructor at Hagerstown Community College. Since 2018, Heidi has served as the piano and organ accompanist for St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Martinsburg, WV. Heidi has performed at various concerts and recitals throughout Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, performing solos, duets, and accompaniment for vocalists and instrumentalists.

Anthony Stoika
Vibraphone

Anthony Stoika earned his Bachelor of Music Performance with a concentration in Jazz from Shepherd University. While there he studied both classical percussion and jazz drum set and vibraphone. Anthony performs throughout Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia both as a sideman and leading his own group performing original music and

interpretations of jazz standards. In addition to performing Anthony teaches percussion lessons through the Community Music Program at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and the Sloan School of Music, in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Doors Open 5:00pm
Concert Starts: 7:00pm

Weather permitting, this concert will be outdoors.

Tickets: $18 (40 pre-sale) $22 at the door/day of

This concert is generously sponsored by Dottie Eddis.

SPONSORED BY: LOWELL & DOTTIE EDDIS In memory of John Paul Brantley

Info about the Sponsorship: Lowell and I met JP and his wife Jane while vacationing on Little St. Simons Island in 2016.  We connected through a mutual love of birding, nature, good food, gardening, and progressive politics.  We all returned for birding the following year.  Soon afterward, JP was diagnosed with dementia.  We visited them several times in Kentucky.  One special memory was joining them for the Great American Brass Band Festival.  Even in the late stages of dementia, JP would sit and listen to symphonies and choral works and close his eyes and conduct.

Last October Jane, Lowell, and I all visited the island once again.  Jane had reimbursed me for too much deposit money and when I told her that I would send her a check, she said no, just make a donation or donations to whatever charity I wanted.  So, I think it is appropriate that some of this money go to supporting classical music.  When I told her of our plan, she said that she would like to come up for the concert.  So, this is her donation too, and any credit should definitely be shared with her.