A LUMINOUS CHRISTMAS
Canberra’s finest festive music returns:
12 - 14 December 2025
Luminescence Chamber Singers and Luminescence Children’s Choir join forces to herald in the Christmas season, alongside Sally Whitwell, the Ellery String Quartet, Callum Tolhurst-Close, and Roland Peelman.
Join us for the full festivities! Purchase a two concert pass to save on ticketing fees and receive a 10% discount.
Christmas Classics
An evening of uplifting Christmas music from around the world. From Medieval carols, to classic Yuletide songs and traditional Nativity hymns, this concert features the sublime sounds of Luminescence Chamber Singers and the angelic strains of Luminescence Children’s Choir, bundled into one heavenly hour.
Presented in partnership with Wesley Music Centre.
Friday 12 December 7.30pm, Wesley Uniting Church
Saturday 13 December 6.00pm, Wesley Uniting Church
Sunday 14 December 6.00pm, Wesley Uniting Church
Luminescence Chamber Singers, Luminescence Children’s Choir
Callum Tolhurst-Close (organ), Roland Peelman AM
A Sunburnt Christmas
December feels different down under. The air hums with cicadas and thunderstorms, gum leaves shimmer, the horizon wavers with heat. It is a season of long light, beach days and bush-fires alike, and of families gathered and scattered, of endings and new beginnings.
A Sunburnt Christmas brings together the shining of voices Luminescence Children’s Choir with pianist–composer Sally Whitwell, soprano Rachel Mink, and the Ellery String Quartet for a very-nearly-all-Aussie program about summertime, family, the fragile promise of new life, and the glowing heart of home. Forget snow and sleigh bells, A Sunburnt Christmas celebrates the festive season under Southern skies.
Sunday 14 December 3.00pm, Wesley Uniting Church
Luminescence Children's Choir
Sally Whitwell
Ellery String Quartet
Rachel Mink
Dan Walker
AJ America
“A concert with either the Luminescence Chamber Singers or the Luminescence Children’s Choir is always an event, but to attend a concert performed by both groups is something quite special. Anyone in the audience for this concert has already received their best Christmas present for this year.”
Len Power, Canberra CityNews