Concerto Copenhagen

CoCo's Christmas Concerts 2025: Bach cantatas for Christmas time with European star soloists

Concerto Copenhagen invites you to a Christmas concert with some of the most festive and magnificent Baroque has to offer. Together with four outstanding soloists from Europe's top ranks, the orchestra performs three of Johann Sebastian Bach's wonderful cantatas written for the Christmas season.

CoCo's Christmas Concerts 2025

Trinity Church, Copenhagen

Saint Olai Church

Premiere with Concerto Copenhagen of a work for baroque orchestra, written by the American composer Victoria Bond, commissioned by Roskilde Music Association. The work is commissioned with full support from the Danish Composers' Association's Fair Practice Award 2022, which was awarded to Roskilde Music Association in 2022.

For her work New York City at Night, Victoria Bond has found inspiration in the artist Georgia O'Keeffe's characteristic New Yorker paintings from the latter half of the 1920s. The four movements of the work are Bond's musical interpretations of four paintings, and there is no doubt: we are in New York, and in a time of metropolitan growth; not least in the height where the skyscrapers one by one are springing out of the ground and towering towards the sky. It is all magnificent, but man is small in the pulsating traffic on the boulevards, among the vertical surfaces of the monumental high-rise buildings and the shining eyes from the car headlights and the windows of the skyscrapers.