Celebrate Christmas with music old and new, with a first half of glorious a cappella Christmas music, including Mistletoebird by Rachel Bruerville, commissioned by ACS.

In the second half, we travel back through time to the French Baroque, where Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Christmas Mass, the Messe de minuit pour Noël, celebrates the news of the birth of Christ with joy and elegance, in the setting of a midnight mass. Composed in 1694, Charpentier has rearranged ten traditional French Christmas hymns to create a piece of dance-like energy and grace.

Featuring Baroque chamber ensemble with both Adelaide Chamber Singers and our mentored second ensemble ACS².