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

One of Chattanooga’s most treasured holiday events, Home for the Holidays is the perfect seasonal celebration for the whole family! The CSO is joined by the CSO Chorus, a variety of community groups, and even the big man himself!

Home for the Holidays

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium

For a very special performance, the world-renowned King’s College Choir, Cambridge returns to Barbican Hall, bringing their signature purity and power to a programme of beloved carols and festive classics. They are joined by the City of London Choir, under the direction of Daniel Hyde.

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Christmas with King’s College Choir

Barbican Centre

The spectacular and colourful three-time GRAMMY Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir comes to Calgary this holiday season with Peace. This evening of powerful song will celebrate American and South African artists associated with the struggles for civil rights and social justice throughout their countries’ complex histories. Expect to hear South African freedom songs as well as the music of Aretha Franklin, Harry Belafonte, Mahlia Jackson and others combined with traditional African gospel music and spirituals.

Soweto Gospel Choir: Peace

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The world comes together in this atmospheric choral concert and celebrates an international Christmas together. The MDR Children's Choir takes you far beyond Germany's borders and, with Christmas compositions from around the world, explores the festive customs of other nations. Wherever Christmas is celebrated, this special festival has its own unique sound. And everywhere, it has left its mark on all stylistic levels: The elaborate choral setting is as much a part of the Christmas repertoire as the simple folk song. Thus, the global concert presents the good news in a multilingual and colorful way, allowing Christmas carols to resonate in a new guise.

Sind die Lichter angezündet

King Albert Theater Bad Elster

Gewandhaus

The traditional Christmas concert with the Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Choir and Handel's immortal oratorio Messiah is of course also on the program in 2025.


A masterpiece that has thrilled audiences for more than 280 years. The concert is a regular part of the Christmas celebrations in the southern Jutland countryside and is played every other year – a traditional event that both musicians and audiences look forward to with great joy. One of the absolute highlights of the concert is the magnificent Hallelujah choir, which fills concert halls and churches with an almost otherworldly energy.

Handel's Messiah With Philharmonic Choir

Alsion Concert Hall

Løgumkloster Church

Ribe Cathedral

Handel’s Messiah embraces every emotion, from the first voice singing “Comfort ye,” inviting you to step aside from the season’s frenzy, to the riveting Amen Chorus at the end. In between are moments of transcendence, loss, and deeply-felt awe—what makes a classic a classic.

Handel’s Messiah

Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark

Princeton University

Celebrate the season with Orchestra Iowa’s Holiday Spectacular—a grand tradition filled with joyful music and festive cheer! Carefully and creatively crafted by Maestro Hankewich, this heartwarming concert features the full symphony, chorus, and youth chorus, bringing beloved holiday classics to life. With plenty of surprises and jolly good fun, it’s the perfect way to share the magic of the season with family and friends.

2025 features the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra Iowa Symphonic Chorus and the Discovery Chorus.

Holiday Spectacular

Paramount Theatre Iowa

Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer directs this decades-long Chicago tradition for the very first time. The Chorus and Brass Ensemble bring to life festive music from the medieval era through the Baroque, including works by Gabrieli, Palestrina, Josquin, Praetorius, and many more. Secure seats early for always sold-out performances of inspiring music in Chicago’s most beautiful spaces.

Holiday Brass & Choral Concerts

St Michael Catholic Church in Old Town

Alice Millar Chapel

Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest

Sts Faith, Hope, And Charity Catholic Church

Experience Nashville’s grandest Messiah, brought to life by the powerful Nashville Symphony and Chorus, joined by four extraordinary soloists. Celebrate the season with the resounding "Hallelujah" Chorus and the passion, drama, and breathtaking beauty of this timeless masterpiece.

Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony Chorus

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

A storied holiday classic returns with a freshly enriched design to experience the beloved masterpiece, Messiah. This innovative presentation is newly organized to present the narrative clearly while still maintaining the great musical traditions of this noble work. A Chamber Chorus of the Colorado Symphony Chorus will join the soloists on stage to bring more immediacy to the narrative while the full forces of the Symphony Chorus continue to thrill with their exciting and exacting choral sound, presenting Handel’s masterpiece in an enhanced dramatic context that this story-telling composer would have appreciated.

Handel's Messiah – Awakening

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Hallelujah—our glorious holiday tradition returns! Composed in 1741, Handel’s Messiah is as magnificent today as it was more than 280 years ago, inspiring joy and wonder from both first-time listeners and those who return each season. Ton Koopman conducts the larger-than-life oratorio in a festive concert featuring four gifted singers and the University of Maryland Concert Choir.

Kennedy Center

Toronto’s grand holiday tradition! The trumpet shall sound and the heavenly voices of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and our magnificent soloists will transport you to a resplendent place of peace and beauty—an inspiring night of music to celebrate the season.

Messiah

David Pecaut Square

Get ready for an unforgettable holiday experience the whole family will cherish! Immerse yourself in a winter wonderland where beloved holiday favorites come to life. It’s the perfect way to make your season shine—don’t miss this spectacular celebration of holiday magic with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts

Handel’s Messiah is a matchless December tradition. The exquisite choral writing and the wildly famous “Hallelujah” chorus — featuring the Seattle Symphony Chorale and a strong cast of vocal soloists alongside the orchestra — honor Handel’s greatest work.

Handel Messiah

Benaroya Hall

Celebrate the magic of the season with the Kansas City Symphony and Symphony Chorus in this dazzling holiday tradition! Experience the joy of Christmas through enticing symphonic arrangements, fresh takes on beloved carols by vocalist Melinda Doolittle and heartwarming surprises that will fill you with festive cheer. Bring the whole family, a date or your friends and sing along as special guests light up the stage — including a special early visit from Santa himself! Don't miss this unforgettable musical celebration that will make your holiday season shine.

Christmas Festival

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Hallelujah! The full Messiah returns, this year under the baton of Nicholas McGegan.

Catalina Foothills High School

As Christmas grows close, step into the warm glow of choral splendour as the SCO Chorus fills Greyfriars Kirk with seasonal music to captivate, calm and inspire you.

A Ceremony of Carols

Greyfriars Kirk

Milwaukee’s favorite hometown holiday tradition returns! Join your Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as we deck Allen-Bradley Hall with holiday cheer. Ring in the holidays with Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble, keep your eye out for the Jolly Old Elf himself, and raise your voice during the audience sing-along backed by the full power of the orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. Sheer musical magic and cozy holiday memories with family and friends await as we usher in a joyful season of celebration.

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MDR-Sinfonieorchester

Handel's Messiah With Phi...

Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester

Handel’s Messiah

New Jersey Symphony

Holiday Spectacular

Orchestra Iowa

Holiday Brass & Choral Co...

Music of the Baroque

Handel’s Messiah with the...

Nashville Symphony

Handel's Messiah – Awaken...

Colorado Symphony

Handel’s Messiah

National Symphony Orchestra

Messiah

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Holiday Spectacular

New Albany Symphony Orchestra

Handel Messiah

Seattle Symphony

Christmas Festival

Kansas City Symphony

Messiah

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

A Ceremony of Carols

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Holiday Pops

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Advent concert of the boy...

Jenaer Philharmonie