Christmas Concert at the University
12/10/2025On Friday, 12 December 2025, the university invites to its traditional Christmas concert in the Neubaukirche. Tickets are available in advance and at the box office.
Works by Bach, Handel, Frescobaldi, Albinoni, Rossini and others are on the programme of the university's traditional Christmas concert this year. (Image: Gunnar Bartsch / Universität Würzburg)
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Friedrich Händel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Tomaso Albinoni and Gioachino Rossini and others are on the programme of the university's traditional Christmas concert this year. The University's Academic Orchestra will be performing under the direction of Markus Popp.
In the festively decorated Neubaukirche, the University's oldest building, you can hear the sounds of Christmas and winter every year. Whether old Christmas carols (which concertgoers can also sing along to), a solo concerto for bassoon and orchestra or an organ piece, whether Bach, Rossini or Krogstad, whether brass, chamber orchestra or large symphonic ensemble: the Academic Orchestra frames the address by the University Chancellor Dr Uwe Klug and puts the audience in a festive mood.
Time and Place
The concert will take place in the university's Aula, the Neubaukirche, on Friday, 12 December 2025, from 8 pm. Admission is from 7.15 pm. In the pre-programme, visitors will be welcomed in the courtyard of the Old University by Dr mult. Jürgen Buchner at the carillon and the brass players of the Academic Orchestra will get visitors in the mood for the concert.
Tickets cost six euros. They can be purchased in advance at the University on Sanderring in room 12-13. There is also a box office (cash only).
About the Programme
One focus of the programme is on music by Italian masters from the Renaissance to the Romantic period, including a Magnificat by Girolamo Frescobaldi, the Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni / Remo Giazotto and, as a special rarity, the Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra by Gioacchino Rossini (bassoon solo: Judith Schmidt-Brücken).
In addition to chorale arrangements by Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Michael Prätorius and Johannes Brahms, an organ work by the recently deceased Würzburg composer Erwin Horn will be performed on the Klais organ by Jürgen Buchner. The programme continues with wintry musical fantasies such as Julius Fucik's Winter Storms and X-mas film music (including music from the "Polar Express") arranged by Bob Krogstad.
