Program

Concert Suite from Polar Express, Silvestri/arr. Brubaker

• Gabrel’s Oboe, Morricone/arr. Ling

• Bells of the Winter Range, Fixmer

• Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24, O’Neill & Kinkel/arr. Phillips

• Troika from Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Prokofiev

• Selections from the Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky

• Pas de Deux

• Tarantella

• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

• Sleigh Ride, Anderson

• Jingle Bells, traditional

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Laramie County Community College’s Music Department will host the eighth annual Holiday Collage concert, a celebration of the season’s music and traditions, at 3 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Surbrugg/Prentice Auditorium on LCCC’s Cheyenne campus. The event is free and open to the public.

This year’s concert features performances from the Cheyenne Brass Band, Collegiate Chorale, Vocal Cantorei, Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra, offering a wide range of music that captures the warmth and joy of the holidays.

The Cheyenne Brass Band will premiere two new arrangements by local composer and arranger Ron Swim — “We Three Kings” and a newly imagined setting of Handel’s “And the Glory of the Lord” from “Messiah.”

The Wind Ensemble will perform “Terkishe Tanz,” a lively dance piece with Middle Eastern influences, along with a return performance of “The Bells of the Winter Range,” a medley of Christmas tunes by Greeley, Colorado, composer Dylan Fixmer that includes “I Saw Three Ships,” “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and “In the Bleak Midwinter.” The ensemble will close with retired U.S. Air Force Band euphonium soloist Will Jones performing “Theme and Variations on Auld Lang Syne” by Simone Mantia, bringing the program full circle from Hanukkah through Christmas to New Year’s.

The Collegiate Chorale will perform “It Feels Like Christmas” from the beloved “A Muppet Christmas Carol” before joining the Cheyenne Brass Band for a collaborative performance of “And the Glory of the Lord” from Handel’s timeless classic “Messiah.” Singers from the Cheyenne Chamber Singers and Capitol Chorale will also join the ensemble for the collaboration.

The Chamber Orchestra, directed by John Fritz, will open with “Highland Holiday,” an arrangement that transforms traditional carols into Celtic fiddle tunes complete with bodhran drum and penny whistle. “A Joyous Sleigh Ride” will follow, offering a Wyoming interpretation of “Joy to the World” through a spirited country and western-fiddle arrangement. The orchestra will conclude with “The Sleigh (A la Russe),” a fast-paced, minor-key dash through the Russian countryside that captures the exhilaration of a wintry ride.

Lobby performances before and after the concert will include a local woodwind chamber ensemble and LCCC instrumental and Cantorei students performing favorite holiday tunes.

“This concert celebrates the familiar melodies and shared experiences that bring people together during the holidays,” said Dr. Frank Cook, LCCC director of bands. “From local composers to timeless classics, every piece reflects the warmth, gratitude and nostalgia of the season. These concerts remind us of family, togetherness and the simple joy of gathering to enjoy music that connects generations.”

https://www.lccc.wy.edu/news/2025-11-20_holiday_concert.aspx

Centralia Cultural Society presents the

HOLIDAY FESTIVAL CONCERT

Christmas Homecoming

Centralia Philharmonic Orchestra

Mathew Webster, Conductor

Centralia Choral Society

Lynda Marshall, Director

Celebrate the season in the beautifully decorated City Hope Church Auditorium as the Philharmonic Orchestra and Choral Society present a program of traditional holiday favorites. Complimentary refreshments will be provided prior to the performance as the Phil'z Harmoniks string ensemble performs in the cafe area. City Hope Church is located at 1000 E. Third St. in Centralia and is handicapped accessible.

Program

"Bells of the Winter Range"

"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fair"

"Waltz of the Flowers."

"Sleigh Ride"

"The Christmas Song

Annual Christmas Holiday Concert

Concert Program:
Hanukkah Festival Overture (Calvin Custer)
We Wish You a Klezmer Christmas (Lauren Bernofsky)
German Carol Festival (arr. James Christensen)
Selected movements from Musikalische Schlitterfahrt (Musical Sleigh-Ride) (Leopold Mozart)
Bells of the Winter Range (Dylan Fixmer)
A Christmas Overture (Otto Nicolai)
I Vespiri Siciliani: The Four Seasons, Winter (Giuseppe Verdi)
Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson, arr. John Moss)
Let It Snow (Jule Styne, arr. Charles Sayre)
Winter Wonderland (Irving Berlin, arr. Bruce Chase)
Christmas Festival (Leroy Anderson)
Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson)

Coronado Philharmonia - 2025 Holiday Concert

Celebrate the season with CPO at our 5th Annual Holidays in Coronado Concert, featuring the incredible Christopher Hollyday Jazz Quartet for an unforgettable evening of music and cheer!

We’re thrilled to have already announced that the Christopher Hollyday Jazz Quartet will be our featured guest artists for this year’s highly anticipated “Christmas in Coronado” on December 6, 2025. The event has been sold out for the last 3 years and we expect the same.

We want to share the FULL program—packed with a wonderful variety of music to delight audiences of all tastes:

• Everything Happens to Me – Christopher Hollyday Jazz Quartet

• And It Happened in Bethlehem

• Holidays on Orange Avenue (an original piece!)

Intermission

• Christmas in the Air – featuring the Coronado Junior Arts League

• Bells of the Winter Range

• German Carol Festival

• Christmas Medley

• A Charlie Brown Christmas

• The Polar Express

We hope you’ll join us for this magical and memorable holiday celebration.

Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025

Time: 7:00 PM (Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30 PM)

Location: Coronado Performing Arts Center

650 D. Ave, Coronado, CA 92118

Music Director: Osvaldo Mendoza

https://www.coronadophilharmonia.org/event-details/2025-holiday-concert

Poinsettia Pops

Conducted by Maestro Lowell Graham

With the Greeley Chorale and Greeley Children’s Chorale

At Greeley’s favorite holiday tradition, your Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, Greeley Chorale, and Greeley Children's Chorale again take the stage in the poinsettia-adorned Monfort Concert Hall! Start the evening with the Magic Baton Melody Contest celebrating our winning Greeley-Evans School District 6 middle school student composer. Then, get in the holiday spirit with familiar tunes including “Deck the Halls,” “Silent Night,” “Jingle Bells,” and “Sleigh Ride.” This concert also features selections from Respighi’s La Boutique Fantastique Suite, a ballet about a magical toyshop. Sure to have you singing all the way home, the concert “wraps” up with the orchestra and choir performing “Angels We Have Heard on High,” arranged by Mack Wilberg. Join us for the final night of the Festival of Trees!

https://www.greeleyphil.org/calendar/poinsettia-pops-2025

It’s the holiday season, and you’re in control this December with the world premiere of A Holiday Adventure by Stratus Chamber Orchestra’s Music Director Adam Torres. Alongside this choose-your-own-adventure story, you’ll celebrate the season with other holiday classics and festive singalongs.

Join us at 2PM before the 3PM concert for hands-on music and holiday activities.

This concert is for the young and the young at heart.

Concert vibe: festive, friendly, exciting, familiar, fun.

https://www.augustanaarts.org/tickets/holiday

featuring the UNC Symphony Orchestra, Bands & Choirs

Friday, Dec 05, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Campus Commons Performance Hall & Online

Conducted by Andrés Felipe Jaime, Wesley J. Broadnax, Fredrick Brown, Jill Burgett, Clelyn Chapin & Jeff Talley T’was the month of the holidays, when all through campus rang the sounds of a Holiday Extravaganza! UNC Symphony Orchestra, Bands and Choirs bring you the magic of the season with a night of epic music, special narration and festive cheer for the whole family. Featuring the UNC Wind Symphony performing Sleigh Ride, Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol and Dylan Fixmer’s Evenings in Doolin.

Join Wes Broadnax and the University of Northern Colorado Wind Symphony as they celebrate Greeley’s composers including Paul Elwood’s Lunar Serengeti and a world premiere of Dylan Fixmer’s Evenings in Doolin.

Tickets available here - https://tickets.unco.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp

CHURCH OF BEETHOVEN- NORTHERN COLORADO

Sunday July 20 3 p.m. Old Machines Duo with Poets Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman

$15.00

Old Machines Duo (Sarah Off, violin and Mathieu D'Ordine, Cello) delights in sharing their interpretations of works, new and old, with their audiences. They specialize in the performance of newly written and obscure works for violin and cello and find great artistic inspiration in working with living composers. They take their name from composer, Dylan Fixmer’s piece “Old Machines” written for them in 2020.

Aby Kaupang  is the author of & there’s you still thrill hour of the world to love, Radiant Tether,  NOS, (disorder not otherwise specified) (w. Matthew Cooperman),  Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me, and multiple other collections. She holds master’s degrees in creative writing and occupational therapy. 

Choosing to work outside of academia, she practices as an occupational therapist and nurse’s aide specializing in the treatment of neurodivergent and special needs children. 

Aby lives in Fort Collins, CO where she assists in organizing an annual book festival, hosts the reading series, EveryEye, and has served as Poet Laureate. &

Poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press.

Food and drink available for purchase. All sales are final with no refunds unless show is cancelled.

2025 VSTS

New Music Reading Sessions Schedule

Monday, July 14

4:00-4:45 PM - K-12: Grade 3-4

Del Whitman is in his thirty-something year as a music educator in Lincoln Public Schools, teaching orchestras at Lincoln East HS and at Lux MS, as well as conducting the LPS Junior Youth Orchestra. Both the East and Lux Orchestras have performed multiple times at the the NMEA Conference and a couple of national festivals. He loves pineapple, basketball, can moonwalk, and once almost poked his eye out with the baton.

Featuring Dylan Fixmer’s “Stormy Sea” grade 3.5

https://www.astastrings.org/site/2025-vsts-new-music-reading-sessions

The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra

Life for us all is filled with moments of great joy, sadness, and every emotion in between. “A Human Experience” explores this vast spectrum through Mozart’s cleverly comedic Cosí fan tutte Overture, Anna Clyne’s jovial “Masquerade,” and Rachmaninoff’s nostalgic Symphonic Dances. Concluding the season, the GPO is honored to premiere Composer-in-Residence Dylan Fixmer’s Concerto for Electric Cello - a three movement work for solo electric cello and symphony orchestra commissioned by GPO Principal cellist Becky Kutz Osterberg. This new work is based on Becky's experiences navigating lifelong depression and depicts sets of characteristics that embody her emotional journey. Drawing from Becky's first-hand experiences and scientific research on mental illness and trauma psychology, this piece is dedicated to those facing these challenges, shedding light on the often silent agony of navigating mental health issues.

Tickets at : https://www.greeleyphil.org/calendar/a-human-experience

Bennet High School Presents and Evening of Music for Valerie White -

with the world premiere of Dylan Fixmer’s “Where We Love is Home” for concert band.

Solidarity in Mental Wellbeing Through Music: Exploring the creation of a new classical work for Electric Cello In-Person

Join cellist Becky Kutz Osterberg, composer Dylan Fixmer, and mental health professionals for a discussion on how music can support mental wellbeing and create solidarity around healing. You will learn about the compositional process and how to challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. Attendees will also be treated to a sneak peek of Fixmer’s new work, Concerto for Electric Cello premiering May 17 with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, which explores Becky's journey through depression and the continuing healing process using the electric cello. This presentation is provided in partnership with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, North Range Behavioral Health, and the High Plains Library District. No registration required.

GPYO Spring Concert

Saturday, April 12th

2:00 PM MST

First Congregational Church of Greeley

26 talented and hard-working young musicians from Northern Colorado join together under the direction of Doran Azari, Chaeli Fischer, and Dylan Fixmer to present their spring concert!

Tickets $5, youth 12 and under FREE.

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What You'll Hear

Holberg Suite Op. 40 by Edvard Grieg, arr by Merle Isaac

Prelude

Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni arr by Katie O'Hara LaBrie

Intermezzo

Crane Dance by Dylan Fixmer

Stormy Sea by Dylan Fixmer

Concerto No. 3, "Autumn", by Antonio Vivaldi

Movements 1 and 3 Jubal Fulks, Violin Soloist

Each of us

WE ARE WILD

@THE REALM

An hour of live music framed by spoken word and embodied through community art

JESS MACMASTER SPOKEN WORD

SARAH OFF VIOLIN

DYLAN FIXMER GUITAR

COMMUNITY ART BY THE REALM COLLECTIVE

BRING YOUR OWN

SKETCHBOOK, JOURNAL, KNITTING OR CREATIVE WORK OR ENGAGE IN OUR COMMUNITY ART OFFERING

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 10:30-11:30AM

CENTER FOR CREAWTIVITY FORT COLLINS, CO

a donation-based event

ASTA K-12 String Orchestra - Eclectic Styles Reading Session directed by Annie Savage

Annie Savage is a 23 year veteran of public school orchestras with a chart-topping performance career on violin, harp, and voice. With studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy and Boston Conservatory at the Berklee College of Music, Savage has produced 15 albums and toured internationally while producing Free-strings.com, her online method for jamming. She currently serves as assistant professor of string education at James Madison University.

Featuring Dylan Fixmer’s “Droid Funk” grade 3.5 for string orchestra and drum set.

"Detail Decay" written by playwright Andrea Moon and underscored by composer Dylan Fixmer is an experience in sound and silence and the difficulties of losing one's hearing where you, the audience, are the main character. You'll help your best friend navigate tough relationships and you'll make daily visits to an overworked barista, but when you lose your hearing, how will your world change?

Performed live at the University of Northern Colorado Campus Commons Art Gallery

Information here

Evening Concert: The University of Northern Colorado Orchestra presents the music of Haydn, Fixmer and Tchaikovsky at the Strauss Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha, for the 2025 Collegiate Orchestra Director's Association National Conference.

Tickets available here

The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra Presents…

A regional calendar highlight and Greeley’s favorite holiday tradition, your Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, Greeley Chorale, and Greeley Children's Chorale again take the stage in the poinsettia-adorned Monfort Concert Hall! Start the evening with the Magic Baton Melody Contest celebrating our winning Greeley-Evans School District 6 middle school student composer. Then, the musicians fill the hall with holiday spirit as they perform classic gems such as “The First Nowell,” “Sleigh Ride,” and Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony. Sure to have you singing all the way home, the concert “wraps” up with the orchestra and choir performing “Angels from the Realms of Glory,” arranged by Mack Wilberg. Come gather with us, experience the last night of the Festival of Trees, and have your photo taken with Santa - all included with your ticket!

Tickets coming soon!

Program

L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 IV Farandole by Bizet
Nimrod by Elgar
Bells of the Winter Range by Dylan Fixmer
Stille Nacht arranged by Chip Davis and Calvin Custer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Christmas Sing-A-Long (if time allows this rehearsal)
Sleigh Ride (if time allows)
007: Through the Years Arranged by Stephen Bulla (at about 8:00 pm)
Christmas At The Movies Arranged by Bob Krogst
Nutcracker Mirlitons
Nutcracker Sugar Plum (celesta)
Nutcracker Overture

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Are you ready to share the holiday cheer and create lasting memories with the young ones in your life? Come hear the sounds of the season at our holiday concert for kids and their grown-ups alike. Join us for a narrated performance of The Nutcracker story, fun singalongs, and other holiday classics. Before the concert, join us for musical holiday crafts and DIYs. Music will include:

• Bells of the Winter Range - Dylan Fixmer (9 min)

• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky/arr. Johnathan McPhee (17 min)

• Singalongs and additional holiday music to be announced

You can expect the music to sound warm, cheerful, merry, joyful, lively, festive, and nostalgic.

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Join UNC Faculty for an evening of new works for violin, marimba and saxophone including the world premiere of Dylan Fixmer’s “A Field Guide to Falling Snow.”

Mezzo Soprano, Alice Simmons and Violinist Sarah Off present an evening of chamber music inspired by our individual connections to nature. Featuring the works of Ralph Vaughn Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Elwood and the world premiere of Dylan Fixmer’s “Songs of Skellig Catherine,” this program is sure to inspire and capture the heart of our experiences in nature.

Tickets Here - https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/events

Mezzo Soprano, Alice Simmons and Violinist Sarah Off present an evening of chamber music inspired by our individual connections to nature. Featuring the works of Ralph Vaughn Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Elwood and the world premiere of Dylan Fixmer’s “Songs of Skellig Catherine,” this program is sure to inspire and capture the heart of our experiences in nature.

Tickets Here - https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/living-among

Old Machines play the music of Dylan Fixmer at Wildwood Sound in Del Norte, Colorado.

http://www.wildwoodsounds.com/concerts.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1KWzx1XnD2BEFfD5CT1mZtCuGOmxyS-PmhjKqFVc9HytZkXyYooa84gTc_aem_AZEtDgnW0eERb-CDH0CW9GCp_3dszgDw0tOl1gCbluaAGy04CMx-cddZuwNnzU47GhGsgav5Dqs5Yx0wmtb72jnt

Dylan Fixmer and Sarah Off perform live at the Cottonwood Cottage. A mixture of original Irish Trad, folk and art music.

Old Machines will premiere Dylan Fixmer’s “Bare Skin on Nature” and “Prelude: Why the Dove Cries” for solo cello at the Cottonwood Cottage.

https://cottonwoodcottageconcerts.com/