St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, announced a mighty roster of music for the opening of its 2025-26 season of concerts and services. Director of Music Andrew Kotylo listed five events featuring the parish’s highly acclaimed Adult Choir, plus an added twist that will get the ball rolling Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.

Preceding the parish’s first Choral Evensong will be a concert featuring the fiery Appalachian soul and dazzling keyboard wizardry of Kory Caudill in his only Philadelphia appearance this year on Sept. 23  at 7 p.m.

Caudill is one of Nashville’s most sought-after keyboardists. He has performed more than 1,000 concerts in a vast variety of arenas and released countless top-selling country albums. His piano virtuoso training is in the classics — he can play the music of Frederic Chopin at the drop of a hat — while swinging with New Orleans-based jazz.

Caudill co-created “A Concert for the Human Family” with hip-hop artist Wordsmith, an initiative of the Episcopal Church (USA) that pairs genre-bending music with conversations on racial healing.

Tickets are $18 to $25, with free admission for anyone under 18.

Kotylo will conduct the parish’s Adult Choir in the traditional Anglican afternoon liturgy of Choral Evensong on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 5 p.m. The Choir will then sing a commissioned anthem, “Vigil for Love,” celebrating the career of Bishop Gene Robinson and composed by Dominick DiOrio, artistic director of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia. That performance will be during the Sunday morning Communion Service at 10 a.m., Oct. 19. Robinson was the first openly gay prelate in the Episcopal Church, the American province of the 85-million member Anglican Communion.

St. Paul’s Choir will mark the ancient Feast of All Souls on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. with a performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem Mass for the Dead heard within the traditional liturgy of the day. Kotylo and his Choristers will sing a Choral Evensong on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m., and then celebrate the Christmas holiday with a Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 21, at 5 p.m.

For more information call 215-242-2055 or visit stpaulschestnuthill.org.

Cathedral Choral Evensong

The Choir of the Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill, conducted by the parish’s director of music and arts, Tyrone Whiting, will pay a visit to the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Savior, 19 S. 38th St., West Philadelphia, Sunday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. They will join Erik Meyer, newly appointed organist at the Cathedral and Whiting’s predecessor at St. Martin’s Church. The roster of music to be performed will include works by Meyer, himself, as well as those by Parker Kitterman, the music director and organist at Christ Episcopal Church in Old City, the first Anglican (Episcopalian) parish in the city. Music by Charles Villiers Stanford and John Ireland will also be performed.

For more information call 215-386-0234 or visit philadelphiacathedral.org.

Spectacular opening night

The Philadelphia Orchestra will celebrate its 125th anniversary year with a spectacular opening night concert Thursday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Kimmel Center’s Marian Anderson Hall. The orchestra’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will conduct a program featuring Arturo Márquez’s “Danzon No. 2,” Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with Curtis Institute of Music alumna Yuja Wang as soloist, and Julia Wolfe’s “Pretty.”

For more information, contact 215-893-1999 or visit philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org.

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