Violinist

Sounds of the Season returns, featuring the orchestra in a joyous celebration of the holiday season. This festive concert weaves together a rich tapestry of holiday favorites, such as selections from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with a jazz-infused twist, popular Christmas songs, classic carols, and of course, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride. Join the orchestra for an audience sing-along and celebrate with music the whole family will enjoy!

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Sounds Of The Season

Mayo Civic Center

This year, TSO goes Hollywood for the Holidays! Join the orchestra and soprano Amy Owens for a magical concert featuring music from beloved holiday films, including White Christmas, Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, Elf, and more. Experience the nostalgia, joy, and warmth of the season through these timeless melodies-don’t miss this unforgettable concert!

Hollywood for the Holidays!

With this program, the orchestra wants to give its audience a real Christmas present. In the program, we have tried to collect the most beautiful Christmas melodies and the most famous Christmas songs. Everything from Sibelius' Christmas Carol, Koppången and Klang min vackra bjällra , to Sleigh Ride and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which are also included in the program. To help us, we have Norrköping-born Olle Persson as soloist and the choirs Bel Canto and Musikaliska Sällskapets Kammarkör. It almost couldn't get better. Here you really get the chance to fill up on all the energy and Christmas spirit needed for the holidays.

Sound and cheers

Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

For this concert, the Prince's Music Corps has brought their future chief conductor Christian Lindberg as conductor and soloist.

The Prince's Band Christmas Concert

Jutlandic Music Theatre

The Contra Costa Wind Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Luis Zuñiga, presents Winterfest. This FREE holiday concert features a festive program blending traditional carols with contemporary arrangements. The concert offers a joyful start to the holiday season for the local community!

Winterfest 2025

Alhambra High School

A Catskill Symphony Orchestra holiday tradition, the Poinsettia Pops is returning to Oneonta for the 2025-2026 season! The Pops brings the community together for an evening of light and joy through beloved holiday classics in the poinsettia-adorned Goodrich Theater in SUNY Oneonta’s Fine Arts complex.

Poinsettia Pops

SUNY Oneonta

The Christmas spirit reached new heights in 2023, as both audiences and critics surrendered to the charming Christmas story Dance Ballerina Dance, danced by the biggest stars from the Royal Danish Ballet and the New York City Ballet to the tunes of crooner Christmas hits played  live  by Chris Minh Doky's All Star Orchestra! In 2025, Dance Ballerina Dance returns, and this time the team will be joined by Danish singer Dicte and singer Martin Preisler. It will be magical!

Dance Ballerina Dance

Musikteatret Holstebro

The hr-Symphony Orchestra's chamber concert series returns to Bad Nauheim, this time with a truly exceptional quintet. When trumpet, trombone, horn, and tuba come together, you can expect a rich, magnificent sound and a varied and captivating program. The first half of the evening will surprise with vibrant and lively pieces that evoke memories of faraway places, bygone eras, and sunny days. The second half will then focus entirely on the Christmas season. Frankfurt Radio Brass was founded in 2023 by five members of the orchestra with the desire to present the audience not only with orchestral repertoire but also with the broad and brilliant spectrum of brass music at the highest level. From Baroque and Romantic to contemporary, there's something for everyone, as the musicians of Frankfurt Radio Brass are committed to presenting every genre of music with the same passion, musicality, and technical perfection that listeners have come to expect from the hr-Symphony Orchestra. The joy of making music together is always paramount and is visible and palpable to everyone. The five solo wind players are among the leading musicians of their generation and have won numerous prizes at national and international competitions.

Brass Connection

Werner-Borchers-Halle

Konzertmuschel der Trinkkuranlage

American pianist Emmet Cohen has been described as a prodigy and is one of today’s leading young jazz artists. DownBeat magazine has praised his “lightning-fast touch and warm harmonic vocabulary.” Others have called him the greatest jazz piano talent to emerge in decades – with a virtuosity that has led some to name him the foremost heir to Oscar Peterson.

Blue House Jazz Emmet Cohen Trio

Konserthuset Stockholm

Bring your loved ones and come celebrate the festive season with us!  We’re delighted to open the 2024 Winter Residency in the beautiful setting of Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church in Harpers Ferry.

Holiday Highlights

Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church

Friday Night Is Music Night will come live from Snape Maltings Concert Hall, filling the space with the sounds of Christmas.

Friday Night is Music Night: Sounds of Christmas

Snape Maltings

With her warm and expressive voice, Joan Faulkner, who comes from Indiana, USA, is considered one of the most important European swing, soul and jazz interpreters. The best conditions for an atmospheric evening with the Munich Radio Orchestra and many Christmas classics that we all know - from White Christmas to Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You to the orchestral freestyle with Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Anderson's Christmas Festival ...

Christmas Classics

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

Christmas at the Movies

Ames Center

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ.

Holiday Organ Spectacular

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe William J. Gillespie Concert Organ

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Create Holiday memories with your loved one’s at the PSO’s 2023 Holiday concert. Enjoy a medley of Holiday favorites like Charlie Brown, the Nutcracker, Christmas carols, and more.

Home for the Holidays Concert

Peoria Civic Center Theater

Ring in the most festive season with holiday favorites, winter-inspired music, and a special narrated performance of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Hometown Holiday

University of Redlands

Celebrate the season with the king of instruments! Enjoy a magnitude of musical splendors with world-class organist Todd Wilson and members of Pacific Symphony performing a delightful mix of sacred and holiday music. Favorite Christmas carols share the bill with traditional organ works that highlight the 4,322-pipe, $3.1 million William J. Gillespie Concert Organ.

This year, too, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Christmas with its audience through a special event. The program offers a fascinating and rich musical journey through the universal soundtrack of this important Christian holiday. The concert opens with Leroy Anderson's rousing " Sleigh Ride" (1946), renowned for his descriptive use of percussion, evoking the sound of horses trotting and the cracking of whips on the snow. Later, the same composer will perform " A Christmas Festival ," a rhapsodic overture that interweaves the most famous traditional carols. A profound sense of intimacy and nostalgia emanates from the pieces created during the dramatic years of the Second World War. This is the case of White Christmas , composed by Irving Berlin in 1940 and performed for the first time the following year during the program The Kraft Music Hall , and of I'll Be Home for Christmas  (1943) by Walter Kent, whose lyrics feature a soldier stationed abroad who writes to his family. This trend is joined by the poignant sweetness of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas  by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the famous musical film Meet Me in St. Louis  (1944).

Concerto Di Natale

Politeama Garibaldi - Palermo

With its program "Christmas Swing," the ensemble presents a romantic Christmas revue. Famous American Christmas melodies ring out in authentic arrangements by David Hermlin, in the style of the golden big band era.

Christmas Swing

Gasteig HP8

For more than three decades, Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt has explored the many facets of Celtic music, a unique blend of folklore, world music and pop. The tour centers on her album "The Mask and The Mirror," and in the second part of the concert, the tracks of the album, released in 1994, will be performed in their original order.

Violinist

Hugh Martin

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 18, 2026

Concerto Di Natale · Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Dec 23, 2026

Christmas Swing · Gasteig HP8

Mar 22, 2027

Loreena McKennitt: The Mask and Mirror 30th Anniversary Tour · Gasteig HP8

Past events

Dec 21, 2025

Sounds Of The Season · Rochester Symphony Orchestra

Dec 20, 2025

Hollywood for the Holidays! · Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in The Mask and Mirror by McKennitt

Gasteig HP8

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