Jessica Stitt, completed her Master of Music degree and is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Collaborative piano at the University of Maryland where she studies with Rita Sloan. She has recently spent two summers at the Aspen Music Festival in the Collaborative Artist Program and has participated in National Orchestral Institute as a chamber and orchestral pianist. Jessica also attended the University of Michigan where she studied piano with Logan Skelton and Douglas Humphreys and played violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra. She performed as a soloist with the Syracuse Symphony as a winner of the SSYO concerto competition. As a graduate assistant at Maryland, Jessica has been heavily involved with the Maryland Opera Studio appearing in many performances including Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Kirke Mechem’s The Newport Rivals, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She participates in multiple student and professional recitals and chamber music concerts having performed in the states and abroad with artists such as Evelyn Elsing and Charlie Vernon and with groups such as the Annapolis Chamber Players, Great Noise Ensemble, Inscape, and The United States Army Field Band Chamber Group. She maintains a private piano studio, and coaches vocal and instrumental students at the University of Maryland.