- Abby -
Violinist & Pianist
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Abby began studying violin at age 5 and piano at age 6. At the age of 8, her family left the US to be foreign missionaries. She grew up in Costa Rica, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, where she continued to study music in the National Conservatory of Music as a teenager. She completed an ARCT degree with the Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada) in Piano Performance in 2009, as well as an ARCT in Violin Performance in 2012. She holds a degree in Church Music from West Coast Baptist College as well as a Masters degree in Piano Performance from Pensacola Christian College. Abby has been teaching private piano and violin lessons since 2006, and has taught on faculty at multiple schools including Antelope Valley Music Academy, Pensacola Christian Academy, West Coast Baptist College, and Northside Christian School. She also enjoys accompanying, and is currently the staff instrumental accompanist for Charleston Southern University. Along with teaching and accompanying, she loves to write music, especially sacred arrangements, for her students and herself. In 2018 she recorded a solo album of her original violin and piano duets with Joseph Martin playing the piano accompaniments. Abby and her husband, Gavin Lockaby, live in Charleston, SC, where Gavin is the administrator of Northside Christian School. They enjoy spending time with their family and traveling to new places. 
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Abby's Sample Song List
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. Many selections available upon request.
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BROADWAY & FILM
A Whole New World - “Aladdin”
Beauty and the Beast - “Beauty and the Beast”
Can You Feel the Love Tonight – “The Lion King”
Colors of the Wind - “Pocahontas”
Days in the Sun - “Beauty and the Beast”
Edelweiss – “The Sound of Music”
Evermore - “Beauty and the Beast”
How Far I’ll Go- “Moana”
I See the Light - “Tangled”
Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
So Close - “Enchanted”
Something There - “Beauty and the Beast”
Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of OZ
Till There was You- The Music Man
You’ll Be in My Heart - “Tarzan”
You’ll Never Walk Alone - ”Carousel”
You’ve Got a Friend in Me - “Toy Story”
Wedding Processional - The Sound of Music
CLASSICAL
Air from (Water Music) - Handel
Air on the G String - Bach
Allegro Maestoso (from Water Music) - Handel
Bist Du Bei Mir (You Are with Me) - Bach
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Hornpipe (from Water Music) - Handel
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Bach
Largo - Handel
Le Rejouissance - Handel
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Prelude from Te Deum - Charpentier
Rondeau - Mouret
Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
The Swan - Saint Saens
Violin Sonata “Spring”- Beethoven
Hoe Down from Rodeo - Copland
Trumpet Tune - Purcell
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Wachet Auf - Bach
Wedding March (Traditional “Here Comes the Bride”) - Wagner
Wedding March (Traditional Bridal Recessional) - Mendelssohn
OLDIES/JAZZ
Fly me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
That’s Amore - Dean Martin
Dream a Little Dream of Me - The Mamas and the Papas
Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Bing Crosby
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
We’ve Only Just Begun to Live - The Carpenters
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole
POPULAR
A Thousand Years – Perri
All of Me - John Legend
Ashokan Farewell - Unger
Danny Boy
Gabriel's Oboe - The Mission
Loch Lomond
The River Flows in You - Yiruma
When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole
* SACRED (Traditional and Modern)
Abide with Me
And Can it Be
A Shelter in the Time of Storm
Amazing Grace
Be Thou My Vision
Blest Be the Tie that Binds
Come, Christians, Join to Sing
Count Your Many Blessings
Complete in Thee
Day by Day
Doxology
Fairest Lord Jesus
How Deep The Fathers Love
I Know Whom I have Believed
In Christ Alone
It Is Well With my Soul
Morning has Broken
Still, My Soul Be Still
Satisfied
* CHRISTMAS (Sacred Examples)
Away in a Manger
Carol of the Bells
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Oh Holy Night
Silent Night
We Three Kings
What Child is This
* Many traditional hymns available upon request
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