Chris Andress
Pastor

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Dr. Angelina Shumway
Music Director

Angelina Shumway graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and received a Doctoral degree in Musical Art in Vocal Performance from the Catholic University of America. She is an accomplished classical choral conductor and singer, having performed in Oratorios, Operas and has given many professional solo appearances with various orchestras. She collaborated with orchestras and choirs performing soprano solo roles in Oratorio including Creation, Messiah, Elijah, Requiem, Gloria and more. She has given hundreds of benefit concerts, fundraising recitals nationally, performed at the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC to name a few.

Dr. Shumway began playing the piano when she was three years old and has played the organ for church services since thirteen. She has been professionally serving various churches as the director of the Music ministry for over thirty years and has given several Praise Worship seminars in Canada and United States.

Not only she has been active as a professional musician, she has also been an educator for more than thirty years. She has worked as the Korean language, and History/Culture teacher at Korean School of Greater Washington, and served as a Program Director at Korean Community Service Center. She also has been active in Korean American Community as a Lecturer, mentor, and the main speaker for many seminars, mentoring, and intervention programs for youth in Washington Tri-state area. 

As a Music Educator, she was a voice faculty at Shenandoah University and has been a faculty member at Prince George’s Community College since 1993, starting as the instructor for the SAGE program, and in 2004 Dr. Shumway began teaching the music credit program at the college. She has been serving as the Associate Professor of Music since 2010, and Academic Coordinator of the Music Department at Prince George’s Community College since 2013. She has been actively involved with The Maryland Area Colleges of Music Association (MACMA ) since 2014 and has been serving the organization as the vice president since 2016.

Heidi Jacobs
Pianist

Elizaveta (Lika) Boyce
Soloist/Section Leader

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