Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus perform music of Bach, Beethoven and Holst as well as carols and an audience singalong. Sunday Dec. 7th, 2:30 PM, at Sooke Community Hall

Start the holiday season with beautiful music, in Sooke!

This year's Christmas concert, December 7th at Sooke Community Hall, features our orchestra, choral singers and soloists, all conducted by Nicholas Fairbank. The program features wonderful classical works by Bach, Beethoven and Holst, as well as lighter favorites and an audience singalong. The ensemble will be augmented by members of the Sooke Community Choir as well as five fine local soloists.

Bach's short Cantata BWV 61, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, composed in 1714 for the first Sunday in Advent, consists of six movements for chorus and soloists, and a string orchestra with harpsichord, based in part on German chorale tunes decorated and harmonized by Bach.
The melody of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy is strikingly similar to the Ode to Joy theme of his Symphony No. 9. This work features piano soloist Jillian Forster Fair as well as a solo vocal quartet. Also by Beethoven, Welten singen, Preiset ihn is a rousing “Hallelujah” chorus from his oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives.

The concert ends with a number of seasonal songs and carols, including some in which the audience will be invited to sing along.

SOLOISTS
Jillian Forster Fair, piano, performs regularly with instrumentalists, vocalists, choirs, churches and schools in Victoria. 
Anna van der Hooft, soprano, is a graduate of UVic in Voice Performance and has performed a wide variety of opera and musical theatre roles.
Alana Hayes, alto, completed studies at the Victoria Conservatory and at UVic and has a repertoire that ranges from Baroque to avant-garde.
Jan van der Hooft, tenor, an Alberta native, is making a name for himself in Victoria singing early music as well as contemporary repertoire.
Louis Dillon, bass, originally from Halfmoon Bay, BC, performs regularly in Vancouver and Victoria.

See you on December 7th at 2:30 PM at the Sooke Community Hall.

Tickets available at Eventbrite and Pharmasave in Sooke