Wayne Hedrick, flute

Wayne Hedrick was the principal flutist of the USAF Heritage of America Band for more than 20 years, where he retired in the rank of Chief Master Sergeant in 2004. His extensive discographyincludes more than 70 albums on the Klavier label, the Telarc label (including a 1993 Grammy-Award winner) and the Wilson Audiophile label. He has performed or recorded with the USAF Heritage of America Band, The U.S. Air Force Band in Washington D.C., the National Chamber Players, the National Symphonic Winds, the Virginia Symphony and the Williamsburg Symphonia and several other USAF Regional Bands. He performed at the 6th International World Harp Congress in Seattle, Wash. and the 2000 National Flute Association Convention in Columbus, Ohio. His copyrighted flute-fingering chart “Practical Alternative Fingerings for Flute” was featured on Larry Krantz’s website for about 20 years and is now at www.flutefingerings.com 

Hedrick's flute and harp CD (Musical Colors recorded with harpist Hye-Yun Bennett) is available on iTunes and Amazon. Recordings of the National Chamber Players are available on both iTunes, Amazon and Rhapsody. Military recordings are available on Amazon.

Hedrick has studied extensively with Carol Kniebusch Noe and either privately or in Master Classes with Geoffrey Gilbert, Peter Lloyd and Paula Elliot. He lives in Newport News, Va. with his wife Mitzi. They have two daughters, Jessica and Katelyn.

Shanshan Xie is a pianist, chamber musician and organist born in Shenyang, China. She has received her Master’s degree from Indiana University’s prestigious Jacobs School of Music where she was also a recipient of a graduate fellowship award. She holds additional degrees from Shenyang Conservatory in China where she began her professional studies as a pre-college student at age 11.

She has been studying with great musicians such as Norman Krieger, Menahem Pressler, Emile Naoumoff and Danwen Wei. She has won a Music Teachers National Association first prize award; The Atlanta Music Club Award winner and a finalist in Brevard Music Festival’s solo piano competition.

Xie is an active chamber musician who has been collaborating with many great musicians such as cellists Wendy Warner, Peter Stumpf and Brandon Vamos; and violinists Mauricio Fuks, Kevork Mardirossian and Mimi Zweig. She previously worked at the Indiana University String Academy and was a collaborative pianist at the Brevard Music Festival.

Currently, she is the music director at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Norfolk and artist of residence in Christopher Newport University.