This concert is in collaboration with the
Sweet Briar College Janet Lowrey Gager Community Concert Series The concert will be transmitted
from Memorial Chapel at Sweet Briar College via AGAR’s YouTube Channel. You can view this concert by clicking the link below. In this recital of music of the seasons pianist
Anna Billias will play works by Grieg, William Grant Still, Lu Wencheng, and Debussy, and will be joined by baritone Gregory Parker, for songs by Bizet, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Argento, and Rorem. Anna Billias was trained as a concert pianist at the Prokofiev State Academy of Music in Donetsk, Ukraine, and graduated with advanced degrees in both performance and instruction for piano, and completed her doctoral studies at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. Dr. Billias has performed in numerous concerts at Sweet Briar College; Hampden Sydney College; Lynchburg College; Liberty University; Randolph College; Eastern Mennonite University, Shenandoah Conservatory; James Madison University; in London, England; and in Paris, France with Gregory Parker; Crimea, Russia; and Donetsk, Ukraine. She has performed in Lynchburg for fundraising events for the Forte Chamber Music Festival, Opera on the James and for the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra. She has served as a jurist for musical events in Amherst, Lynchburg and Charlottesville, and regularly volunteers her time performing at local retirement communities. In her spare time, she is the music director at a local church in Lynchburg, VA and runs a growing private piano studio. Dr. Billias enjoys serving as an accompanist for the Rockbridge Youth Chorale in Lexington, VA and giving concerts in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the proud mother of three children, and her husband, Christopher, is a Judge in the 25th Judicial District of Virginia. Gregory Parker, has performed as a baritone soloist in numerous oratorio and recital presentations as well as with opera companies in Alabama, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia. In June 2018, he performed a recital of contemporary American art songs on the Dimanches Musicaux concert series at the American Cathedral in Paris with pianist, Anna Billias. In addition to studying with James McKinney, author of The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults, he has worked with internationally acclaimed pedagogues Horst Günter and Richard Miller. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree and the Performer’s Certificate in Voice from Samford University, the Master of Music degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
AGAR AND AMHERST COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COSPONSORED EXHIBITION “Women Making a Positive Difference In Amherst County 1920-2020” Sept.1–Dec. 16, 2020 Amherst County Museum and Historical Society, 154 South Main Street (main building), Amherst, VA 24521 Open Tuesdays-Fridays 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free admission — call for an appointment as number of people admitted at one time strictly limited, 434-946-9068. Masks and gloves are required to enter the Museum. NOW PLAYING at the MUSEUM:
“Women Making a Positive Difference In Amherst County ,“ featuring segments of AGAR interviews from 2009-2018 The exhibit includes memorabilia such as regalia worn by Monacan Nation Chief Sharon Bryant, voting registers from the 1930s, art works by Amherst County Professional artists, and articles and letters about the history of women voting and encouraging others to vote in Amherst County. |
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