Special Music Events

Music at Morningside has built a great reputation among musicians and music lovers. The excellence of Morningside's music program has attracted singers and instrumentalists from all over the Atlanta area and around the country. There are special music events that happen several times a year, including Palm Sunday, Easter, and the Advent season, which culminates in a well-loved candlelight Christmas Eve service.

Morningside is also pleased to be a venue for community musical events each year.  The Evening of Broadway in 2004 and 2006 directed by Choir Director, Walter Huff, brought unparalleled talent to our community. Each year, we are pleased to host a string quartet from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.  To celebrate the rebuild and enlargement of our 1956 Wicks pipe organ, Morningside Presbyterian hosted a concert by distinguished organist Donald Sutherland, Coordinator of the Organ Department at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in November of 2007.  Morningside then hosted the regional American Organ Guild meeting in January 2008 with another organ recital featuring renowned organist, Thomas Murray.

Elysium Chamber Orchestra and Chorus 

May 31 @ 8:00 p.m./June 1 @ 3:00 p.m. - Morningside Presbyterian will host the Elysium Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, the southeast's only combined choral and orchestral chamber group, as they return for their second season.  Artistic Co-Directors Alan Raines and David Hancock will conduct the 50-member group on Saturday, May 31st at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 1st, at 3:00 p.m., at Morningside Presbyterian Church.  The repertoire to be performed: Elysium's Salut à la France, will include the timeless Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, contrasted by Ernest Gillet's Loin du Bal, Camille Saint- Saëns' melancholy Prelude from La Deluge, and the beautiful Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge by Jules Massenet. Tickets are $15 for adults, $8 for students/children, and will be sold at the door. For more information, visit our Elysium's website. Members of Morningside Presbyterian Church will be admitted free to the concert.