Chevy Chase Concert Series

Chevy Chase Concert Series Presents …

Spring 2025 Choir Concert

The final concert in our celebration of the organ

June 1st at 4:00PM
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Sanctuary

June 1st at 4 PM marks the final concert in the Chevy Chase Concerts Series “Season of the Organ Anniversary” with a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Missa Brevis, St. John of God (Sancti Joannis de Deo) also known as the “Little Organ Mass”.

Our featured soloist is Adele Crawford, known to us in her post as State Supply Associate Pastor and an accomplished professional singer.

Participants are:

  • Soprano soloist, Adele Crawford

    Soprano Adele Crawford enjoyed a fifteen year career in opera, concert and oratorio, which took her all over the US, Europe and the Middle East, and included four seasons as a principal artist at The Metropolitan Opera. Her repertoire included Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro, Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Zerbinetta/ Ariadne auf Naxos, and Olympia/Les Contes d’Hoffmann, among many others. She is a magna cum laude graduate from The University of Michigan School of Music with both a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Voice Performance.

    In 2008 she earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University and in 2009 was ordained a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She has served churches in Connecticut and Maryland, was the founding curator of Creative Space, an arts ministry in New England, and served as Interim Dean of Chapel at Yale Divinity School. Currently she is Associate Pastor at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC.

  • Chancel Choir with String Ensemble

    Chancel Choir rehearses weekly and sings every Sunday at the 10:00 a.m. worship service. Additional singing includes special Christmas and Holy Week services and several concerts featuring major cantatas or oratorios accompanied by orchestra, sometimes combining with another choir. The Chancel Choir studies and performs a cross-section of music from all periods, from ancient plainsong to the most contemporary music.

  • Handbell Choir

    The Hand Bell Choir uses our beautiful handbells at occasional services and special events

  • Informal Panel

    with a former organ committee member, the current curator of the instrument, David Storey, and Ken Lowenberg, Music Director Emeritus.

For over 52 years Chevy Chase Concerts has offered admission-free concerts to the community because of a belief that music nourishes our minds and souls and speaks deeply to us in ways that words alone often cannot.

We have offered a wide variety of programs, primarily by professional musicians, the whole being supported entirely by donations from our church members and listening community as well as freewill offerings which are received at most concerts.

A Washington, D.C. institution, the annual Bach Marathon celebrates the music of Johann Sebastian Bach played by some of the area’s finest organists on the magnificent 3 manual, 50 rank, 2500 pipe, glass-encased Rieger tracker organ, built in 1975 and ideally suited to the music of Bach.

Currently, masking is optional.