2024-2025 Season Schedule
Sunday, October 6, 4:00pm
Elevation Choir
Elevation is Delaware’s only professional vocal ensemble and the flagship, all-professional performing ensemble of Elevate Vocal Arts. Elevation’s virtuosic performances fuse traditional, classical choral music with jazz, hip-hop, R&B, storytelling, and spoken word, considering the whole breadth of vocal arts inclusive of the many ways the human voice is used in creative and artistic expressions.
Sunday, October 27, 4:00 pm
Ruth Sall & Friends: Musical Story Time
Ruth Ideen-Sall invites children and listeners of all ages to share in an afternoon of story through song. Presented by Ruth and several talented youth singers, this 50-minute program is perfect to share with young listeners.
Friday, November 8, 7:30pm
Abington Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Choir
The Abington Symphony Orchestra highlights Gwyneth Walker’s “Symphony of Grace” in a program exploring American orchestral works including a choral collaboration from the Oratorio Choir all under the direction of John Sall.
Sunday, December 15, 4:30pm & 7:00pm
Christmas by Candlelight
Gather in candlelight to hear and sing carols and anthems that point our hearts toward the light and love reflected in the music of Christmas. Children and Youth Choirs join the Oratorio Choir together with organ and the Abington Symphony Orchestra in a beloved annual program.
Saturday, January 18, 3:00pm
The Healing Power of Music
Katherine Young, soprano, Eileen Fields, piano
An intimate recital experience drawing on the transformative effect of music on people’s lives, especially during difficult times. Featuring a range of songs from the Renaissance to the Contemporary that examine these events and processes, the program is inspired by personal experiences of music’s power to help overcome physical and emotional challenges.
Sunday, February 2, 3:00pm
Akshara Indian Ensemble
Akshara Music Ensemble, founded by Carnatic musician, composer, and educator Bala Skandan has been building new forms on the foundations of Indian classical music since 2008 to explore the crossroads of the traditional and the contemporary. Skandan’s original music expresses classical Carnatic (South Indian) ragas and talas through the forms of world music, jazz improvisation, and modern composition with an instrumentation ranging from hammered dulcimer, violins, and cello to mridangam, kanjira, and bansuri sharing the richness of Indian classical traditions.
February, Tuesdays at 12:00 Noon
AGO Organ Recitals
Area organists offer noon recitals through the month of February. Take a musical lunch break and find old favorites and new inspirations. February 4, 11, 18, 25.
Sunday, March 16, 4:00pm
Kristin Ditlow, piano, and Guillaume Combet, violin
“Women Who Travel” features works from the classical repertoire of 19th to 21st centuries by women who embraced and offered inspiration with their music including Amy Beach, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Grazyna Bacewicz, Amanda Maier, Germaine Tailleferre, and more.
Sunday, March 30, 4:00pm
Annual Memorial Concert: Duruflé Requiem
A heartfelt musical tradition, this year’s memorial concert features the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé. Noted for elegant energy of its chant-inspired melodies and the comforting warmth of its prismatic orchestral colors, this favorite is presented by the Abington Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Choir.
Friday, May 16, 7:30pm
Abington Symphony Orchestra
with Clipper Erickson, piano
Clipper Erickson returns to join the Abington Symphony Orchestra and John Sall in the colorful and powerful piano concerto by American composer, Amy Beach, one of the first American composers to receive critical acclaim in both the United States and Europe.Click here to add your own text
Sunday, June 1, 7:00pm
Unaccompanied
Leo Eguchi, cello
“Unaccompanied” is an immigration themed solo performance project featuring newly commissioned works by immigrant and first-generation American composers. Although it can be difficult to have meaningful conversation about immigration, the issues touch all of our families. Eguchi has invited composers to put some of their personal story into sound asking, “What does YOUR American-ness sound like?” The cello gives metaphorical voice to each story, and insight into ourselves and our shared humanity. The performance will include opportunity for community conversations with the audience, performer, and visiting composers.
Music at Abington was founded in 1972 by G. Stanley Powell. As a concert series, Music at Abington brings outstanding professional musical programming to the Abington community for free. The series has grown to include annual features of solo and chamber music, choral and instrumental programs, children’s concerts and other unique programs all supported through free-will donations and patrons of the concert series. Music at Abington builds community relationships by offering childcare and public receptions at its programs, and it celebrates and features the community-based ensembles of Abington Presbyterian Church: the Abington Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Choir in orchestral programs and combined choral works. The purpose of Music at Abington is to bring quality musical opportunities to the APC and Abington communities and through collaboration and musical excellence to “glorify God and refresh the soul” (-J. S. Bach).
All events are in-person and available at Music at Abington’s YouTube channel HERE for those unable to join us in person.
Join us in-person or online for our 53rd Season of programs! All programs are presented for free to the public (donations are gratefully received). If you are interested to continue and further our mission you can support MAA as a patron by linking to the donations page and indicating a gift in the box for Music at Abington. If you would like to include an honorary or memorial note in our annual memorial concert program indicate this in the “notes” box for online giving.
Noah’s Arts Camp for Kids (NACK) 2025March 30, 2025 - 12:40 pm
Vacation Bible School 2025February 28, 2025 - 6:55 pm