Winter Carols: December 19, 2025
Rehearsals begin in November

Winter Carols

Winter Carols is BarnArts original event and the highlight of our Winter programming. Michael Zsoldos serves as Music Director for a program that focuses on a Winter Solstice theme for a night of music and wonder and features the BarnArts Chorale and the BarnArts Youth Chorale. 

Don’t miss this festive opportunity to join with neighbors and friends and celebrate the season as a community! Winter Carols includes audience sing-alongs as well as instrumental performances by musicians from our community. 

No admission is charged for this event but due to high demand, online reservations are highly recommended.

Come sing with us!

Join the BarnArts Chorale and BarnArts Youth Chorale and sing at Winter Carols!

Singers of all-ages and experience levels welcome

Rehearsals begin Monday Nov. 17, and continue Nov 24, Dec 1, 8, 15 plus dress rehearsal on Dec 18

  • Youth: 5:15-6pm
  • Adults: 6-8pm

About Our Director

Based in Woodstock, conductor Michael Zsoldos is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Michigan State University where he studied with Branford Marsalis. His current performances projects are “Music for Loving: A Tribute to Ben Webster”, the Miro Sprague Quintet and The Convergence Project. Michael composed and performed the music for the 2017 documentary Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel.

Michael is a lecturer in classical saxophone at Dartmouth, the instrumental arranger of the Dartmouth Gospel Choir, and a faculty member of Interplay Jazz and Arts and the Vermont Jazz Center’s Summer Jazz Workshop, where he teaches jazz improvisation and leads jazz combos.