Abingdon & District Musical Society is an amateur mixed voice choir and full symphony orchestra, and has been making music in Abingdon, Oxfordshire since 1946.
The choir has about 70 singers, and the orchestra has around 40 regular members with strong string and wind sections.
Each year, the society gives two concerts featuring mixed choral and orchestral works, an orchestral concert, a choral concert, and a light hearted charity Christmas concert.
The Musical Director is the internationally-renowned conductor Alexander Walker.
The Honorary President of ADMS is Professor Donald Burrows of the Open University.
We are a very friendly society and always welcome new members.
Orchestra rehearsals resume Monday 5 September 2022. Choir rehearsals resume Thursday 8 September. AGM online Monday 12 September.
Next concert
Saturday 12 November 2022
Choral and orchestral concert:
Elgar – In the South
Fauré – Requiem
Franck – Psalm 150
Debussy – La Mer
Future concerts
Saturday 10 December 2022
Christmas choral concert with keyboard accompaniment:
Britten – A Ceremony of Carols
Saturday 11 March 2023
Orchestral concert:
Grieg – Peer Gynt: excerpts from both suites
Glazunov – Violin Concerto
Sibelius – Symphony no 1 in E minor
Saturday 25 March 2023
Choral concert:
Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs
Bob Chilcott – Little Jazz Mass
Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: Suite
Saturday 10 June 2023
Choral and orchestral concert:
Smetana – Ma Vlast: 1-Vyserad and 2-Vltava
Brahms – A German Requiem
Saturday 18 November 2023
Choral and orchestral concert:
Brahms – Song of Destiny
Bruckner – Te Deum
Dvorak – Symphony no 8 in G
Saturday 16 December 2023
Christmas concert:
Carols and readings
March 2024
Orchestral concert:
Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade in A minor
Concerto tbc – Abingdon Music Festival concerto class soloist
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no 5 in E minor
March/April 2024
Choral concert with orchestral accompaniment:
Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Duruflé – Requiem
June 2024
Choral and orchestral concert:
Verdi – Requiem
Saturday 16 November 2024
Choral and orchestral concert:
Programme to be confirmed
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