A French Baroque Christmas 2025 (St Paul)

A Christmas tradition centuries in the making

with The Norseland Youth Choir

Experience the beauty and joy of the Christmas season with a selection of works written for Christmas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The concert centers on Charpentier’s Pastorale sur la Naissance (“Pastoral on the birth of Christ”), one of the most captivating and imaginative examples of sacred French-language Baroque drama. Charpentier’s In nativitatem explores the experience the shepherds might have that fateful day.

From shepherds and recorders to famous French noëls you can sing with us, you’ll be part of the newest Christmas tradition in the region.

Organ prelude begins at approximately 7:10pm.

Musicians
Jenny Ubl, soprano
Catherine Sandstedt, soprano
Kristina Boerger, alto
Alyssa Anderson, alto
Garrett Eucker, tenor
Nick Chalmers, tenor
Andrew Kane, baritone
Nick Nelson, bass
Allen Hamrick & Alan Kolderie, recorder
Conor O’Brien & Miriam Scholz-Carlson, baroque violin
Maryne Mossey, viola da gamba
Julie Elhard, basse de violon
Michael Thomas Asmus & Bruce Jacobs, continuo

**This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.**