3 (Wednesday)
DOMS presents Keys to Bach: Decorated pianist Fiona Wu plays Bach transcriptions by Hess and Busoni, alongside Bach’s Keyboard Partita No. 6 in E minor
5 (Friday)
The Ewashko Singers present A Rutter Christmas Feast featuring his Magnificat
If you've been rehearsing Handel's Messiah with CAMMAC, here's your chance to perform it at Dominion-Chalmers. Or come and listen!
The Nepean Choir presents O Night Divine: Songs of the Sky and the Season, a collection of mostly traditional hymns and modern choral works celebrating the season and the night sky. Organist Jennifer Loveless is guest artist and Lee Carter is the conductor
6 (Saturday)
The Canterbury Trebles present A Jazzy Choral Christmas
The Centenaires Concert Band presents a concert
The Cantiamo Women's Choir presents Now is the Time for Christmas, featuring Percussionist Zachary Pulak and flute and harp duo Sheila White and Lucile Hildesheim
The Kanata Choral Society presents Magnificat! Love's Pure Light a Christmas concert featuring Vivaldi's masterpiece Magnificat as well as Christmas favourites by Willcocks, Rutter, Forrest and others. Also a chance to join in with sing-along carols
L'Orchestra symphonique de Gatineau presents a concert featuring works by Rutter and Dvořák
7 (Sunday)
The Bytown Voices presents A Ribbon of Hope, an afternoon of music about courageous hope, the hope that proclaims the new day hours before the first light; a leap of faith, a brave walk into an uncertain path. A decision to reach and catch a floating ribbon of light before it vanishes. Hope strives, dares, chooses, protects, connects, and imagines
The Cantata Singers of Ottawa presents a Christmas singalong. Check for personal requests
8, 10, 16 (Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday)

Orkidstra is a social development program that empowers kids, ages 5-18, from equity-deserving communities by teaching life skills – such as teamwork, commitment, respect and pride in achievement – through the universal language of music. Over the next week, this organization presents a series of concerts.

On Monday at Heron Gate
On Wednesday in Vanier at Ottawa Technical Secondary School
And the following Tuesday at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
10 (Wednesday)
DOMS presents Flautists Four!: Cathy Baerg, Kirsten Carlson, Diana Lam, and Loyda Lastra unite piccolo, C, alto, and bass flutes, interpreting works by McIntyre, McMichael, and Guiot—bridging jazz and classical styles
CANCELLED (weather and illness) Christmas is fast approaching...so it must be time for the Stairwell Carollers! Indeed this is the first of two concerts. Not to be missed!
Under the auspices of Music and Beyond, the group L'Harmonie des saisons performs Handel's Messiah at Christ Church Cathedral
12 (Friday)
Musicians for Odenak present Gifts, a concert featuring John Rutter's wonerful fable Brother Heinrich's Christmas along with many songs of the season. Choirs from Barrhaven, Knox, Manotick and Woodroffe will make for a very festive evening!
12 - 13 (Friday - Saturday)
The Ottawa Gay Men's Chorus presents Fa La La Fabulous-Fabuleux, celebrating the chic and the glitter with uplifting harmonies, sensational choreography and sparkling flair
13 (Saturday)
The Maple Leaf Brass Band presents an afternoon concert Holiday Brass at Southminster United Church. Admission by voluntary contribution
The Kanata Choral Society presents A Choral Festival, a concert to beneifit local food banks. The concert features the voices of three other choirs as well: the Goulbourn Male Chorus; Glen Cairn United Church Choir, and Kanata United Church Choir
From Carol to Table is a concert featuring singer Luc Lalonde and pianist Frédéric Lacroix. The program includes selections from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and Berlioz's L’Enfance du Christ. Each ticket purchased brings warmth to both hearts and homes this holiday season, with 50% of every ticket directly supporting the Ottawa Food Bank
The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir presents A Very French Christmas, a festive Christmas event highlighting beautiful French music, featuring Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio
In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, the Rideau Chorale, directed by Kevin Reeves, will share the power and beauty of Handel's Messiah
The Castenchel Choir presents A Festive Feast!. The feast includes Boar's Head Carol, Purcell's If Music be the Food of Love, and Sleigh Ride, Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer and Who Spiked the Eggnog?
13 - 14 (Saturday - Sunday)
The Ottawa Choral Society presents a Medieval Christmas. The concert will summon the spirit of the Middle Ages by exploring the roots of the great carol tradition. It will also feature Benjamin Britten's homage to that tradition, Ceremony of Carols, with the participation of Ottawa Children's Choir
14 (Sunday)
The Thirteen Strings invites bass-baritone Gerald Finley to the stage for a special concert marking the Thirteen Strings' 50th anniversary and the festive season.
Les Concerts Ponticello presents a concert by piano Trio Callista featuring works by Schumann and Beethoven. As always a light breakfast is available beforehand
The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra presents its Christmas concert, featuring heartwarming seasonal favourites, plus a special audience carol sing-along in the second half
The Cantiamo Youth and Childrens's Choir presents An Ol’Fashioned Christmas, featuring light-hearted holiday songs, traditional Christmas carols with descants, selections from Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, and the world premier of The Best Time of the Year gifted to Cantiamo by Canadian composer Mark Sirett
At St. Barnabas, come join in celebration with an Advent Procession with Carols. All welcome
Celebration through Song is a concert celebrating the many different aspects of life and spiritual experiences. Pianist Frédéric Lacroix, cellist Joan Harrison and mezzo-soprano Pauline van der Roest will be performing works by Mahler, Brahms, Gounod and Dutch Composers Diepenbrock, and Hollman
The National Capital Concert Band presents Winterscapes at the National Galllery of Canada -- a concert featuring festive favourites, as well as pieces that evoke winter, cozy gatherings and warm memories
15 (Monday)
The choral group Music Viva presents: Winter's Tales: Shakespeare for the Season. Hear songs from the plays in settings by composers from across five centuries, from Robert Johnson to John Rutter
16 (Tuesday)
The Canadian Centennial Choir presents This Is Why We Sing, Part IV: Winter, a concert of music chosen by Choir members focussing on the season: cold and ice, winter solstice, and plenty of Christmas
17 (Wednesday)
DOMS presents Gloria in Excelsis: Celebrate the season with Vivaldi’s Gloria, a Bach cantata and other sacred works for Advent and Christmas, performed by choir and chamber ensemble
17 - 18 (Wednesday - Thursday)
The annual tradition of a performance of Handel's Messiah continues at the NAC with performances by both the Cantata Singers of Ottawa and the Capital Chamber Choir
18 - 20 (Thursday - Saturday)
This award-winning dance drama, Oriental Legend, presented by the China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG), and performed by the world acclaimed Beijing Dance Drama and Opera Theatre, takes the stage at the Canadian Museum of History. Set along the ancient Silk Road, the dance tells an epic story of courage, friendship, and cross-cultural harmony
20 (Saturday)
Don't miss this chance to hear the Stairwell Carollers. Their rendition of traditional carols -- and more! -- is not to be missed.
Ottawa Choral Workshops, under the direction of founding director Roland Graham, presents two beloved sacred works of the high Baroque this Christmas season: Bach's Magnificat, in its extended Christmas version, and Vivaldi's Gloria. The performance features a 60-voice five-part choir and a professional Baroque orchestra
20 - 21(Saturday - Sunday)
The Seventeen Voyces presents its Christmas concert at St. Matthew's on Saturday and at St. Bartholomew's on Sunday
21 (Sunday)
Check out a group you may not have heard of: Hypatia's Voice, a choir of the upper voices. This concert centers around the world premiere of Dawn, composed by Laura Hawley and commissioned specifically for the tenth anniversary of Hypatia Voice. The program also features the lush, six-part a cappella arrangement of Rheinberger's Abendlied , Hildegard von Bingen's O Virtutis Sapientiae, and Gordon Lightfoot's "Song For a Winter’s Night"
Music and Beyond presents its annual Christmas concert featuring music that you most likely will not hear anywhere else, like Edward Elgar's A Christmas Greeting or Rachmaninoff's Bogoroditse Dyevo. And some familiars in a jam-packed program!
24 (Wednesday)
DOMS presents A Jazzy Christmas Eve: The Mark Ferguson Quartet—Mark Ferguson (piano/trombone), Mike Tremblay (sax/flute), John Geggie (bass), and Jamie Holmes (drums)—swings into the holidays with jazzy takes on seasonal favourites
31 (Wednesday)
At St. Barnabas, the Choir presents Nine Lessons and Carols for a quiet New Year's Eve celebration