Christmas Concert

A Christmas Eve through the eyes of shepherds and angels.

Sunday,
November 30, 2025

at 2:00 pm

FREEWILL OFFERING
Joel Peters, Director of Music

The Ascension of Our Lord choir presents a Christmas Concert on the First Sunday of Advent – November 30th at 2:00 PM, featuring our wonderful Ascension Choir, including four McGill Scholar choir members under the direction of the Ascension parish’s organist and choir director, Joel Peters.

The concert will include works by Rutter, Berlioz, Chilcott, as well as excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. As has been the case in the past, those attending will also be asked to join the choir in singing a few Christmas carols. 

Over the last three years, parishioner donations have contributed significantly to the Ascension’s collaboration with McGill’s Schulich School of Music in hiring students in the Voice program to lead the choir’s soprano, alto, bass and tenor sections.

We hope you will join us for an afternoon of inspiring music in the setting of our beautiful church to begin the Advent season.

 The concert is open to all.

We accept a freewill offering, and tax receipts will be issued for donations of $35 and more.

Refreshments will be served following the concert.

CONCERTS

Christmas Concert

On November 30th at 2:00 PM, featuring our Ascension Choir with McGill Scholar choir members under the direction of Joel Peters.

Qing Xu Organ Concert

An inspiring evening of music featuring Qing Xu, laureate of the 2024 Lynnwood Farnam Organ Competition.
May 30th 2025 at 7:30 PM. Admission by Donation.

Early Music Recital

An early music recital exploring female divine figures through music May 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm

Music for Advent and Christmas

A concert on December 8, 2024 at 2pm presented by the Ascension of Our Lord Choir. O Come Emmanuel – music for Advent and Christmas complete with choir, strings, piano, organ and soloists.

A Mother’s Day Concert

A concert on May 12, 2024 at 2pm presented by the Ascension of Our Lord Choir, inspired and given shape by the well-known prayer Ave Maria, outlining a musical portrait of Mary.

Concert by Matthias Krüger

A concert on March 17, 2024 at 8:30pm to mark the end of the residency of German composer Matthias Krüger.

Religious Heritage Days 2023

Ascension of Our Lord is participating in this annual event on September 9 and 10, 2023, and Joel Peters, Organist and Choir Director, will give a 30-minute concert for voice, viola and organ on Saturday, September 9 at 1pm.

Recital by Ryan Enright

A recital by Ryan Enright on August 21, 2022 at 3pm, as “a tribute to Ascension and Phil Schaus for having given me the opportunity to practice on that vintage Casavant.”

Inaugural Organ Concert

On May 29, 2022, world-renowned organist Isabelle Demers gave a concert to celebrate the restoration of our Casavant Opus 1344 organ.