The Perth Choral Society, with the City of Perth Sinfonia and four professional soloists, brings Handel's Messiah to Perth Concert Hall.
Perth Choral Society bring Handel's Messiah to the Perth Concert Hall on Sunday 6 December, starting at 7:30pm. It's a piece that's become a Christmas perennial, and the society is taking it on with four professional soloists and the orchestra of the City of Perth Sinfonia.
The programme runs through the choruses and arias that have made it a festive staple: 'For unto us a child is born', 'I know that my redeemer liveth', 'The trumpet shall sound', and the Hallelujah Chorus. It's a work the society has staged before, back in December 2022, and it's one of those that feels right at home in the run-up to Christmas.
Leading the night is the society's Director of Music, Peter Rutterford, who'll be conducting the City of Perth Sinfonia. The soloists are Michelle Sheridan-Grant on soprano, Heather Ireson on contralto, Liam Bonthrone on tenor, and Phil Gault on bass. It's a full line-up for a piece that relies as much on the individual voices as it does on the choir.
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If you've followed the society's recent work, you'll remember them performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana alongside Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in December 2025 — a concert critic Ian Stuart Hunter praised for the choir's diction and the energy of Rutterford's direction. This is a return to the choral territory they're well-known for.
Tickets are £22 plus booking fee, with disabled and students at £8, and carers and under-18s free. The concert is in the Gannochy Trust Auditorium at the Perth Concert Hall on Mill Street, PH1 5HZ, on Sunday 6 December at 7:30pm.
