The Great Christmas Concert 2025

The Lassus Scholars
Piccolo Lasso
The Orlando Chamber Orchestra (Leader: Gillian Williams)
Ite O’Donovan (conductor)

Special Guest Soloists: 
Samantha Sandy, soprano
Emma Power, mezzo-soprano
Iris de Mot Dies, saxophone
Sam Monedero, violin

Programme to include:
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Beethoven: Hallelujah from the Mount of Olives
Pedro Itturalde: Pequena Czarda
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen,
Tchaikovsky: Adieu, forêts
Douglas Moore: Willow Song from the Ballad of Baby Doe
Offenbach: Barcarolle

For almost 30 years audiences have made The Great Christmas Concert the start of their Christmas Season! Not only will you experience the joyful and uplifting sounds of the voices of children in Piccolo Lasso combined with their adult colleagues in The Lassus Scholars - all blended together with the Orlando Chamber orchestra - but you will also have the opportunity of uniting your voice with theirs as conductor Dr Ite O’Donovan invites you to join in the audience carols!

The programme of festive music includes Christmas favourites from O Holy Night to Jingle Bells; choruses by Handel, Beethoven, Palestrina and Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus; instrumental solos by Sarasate and Itturalde; and arias by Douglas Moore, Tchaikovsky and Offenbach.

Presented by Dublin Choral Foundation