The Cleveland Orchestra: Holiday Concert

The Cleveland Orchestra: Holiday Concert at Severance Music Center

There is holiday music you play while answering emails. Then there's holiday music that makes you stop talking altogether. The Cleveland Orchestra, its choruses, and guest vocalist Capathia Jenkins bring the second kind to Severance Music Center—full-scale, live, and impossible to reduce to a speaker in the corner.

This year’s concert at Mandel Concert Hall includes The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, the Blossom Festival Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, Sarah Hicks, and Capathia Jenkins. That lineup matters because it gives the holiday program real range. One moment can lean into the grandeur of a full orchestra, and the next can open up into layered voices that make the hall feel even more alive.

There’s also something distinctly Cleveland about hearing this music at Severance, home of the Orchestra and one of the city’s most admired concert halls. Holiday concerts can be everywhere in December; this one belongs to a place that has shaped the city’s musical identity for generations. If you want a seasonal outing that feels elevated without feeling remote, this is it.

See more about the setting at Severance Music Center.

Make the season sound as big as it feels. Get tickets for The Cleveland Orchestra: Holiday Concert in Cleveland.