Conveying the wonder of the season, as sung by angels and told by shepherds, Lumedia Musicworks presents a live concert inspired by traditional French carols.

The ensemble will perform Hymns of Angels live. Typical to Lumedia’s style of programming, tightly-knit sets of repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries carry the audience through a moving and celebratory hour-long musical experience.

Various French composers wrote their own versions of these traditional songs, including both vocal and instrumental versions. Soprano Jenifer Thyssen of Austin joins Artistic Director and soprano Julianna Emanski in both these pastoral carols and select liturgical pieces. Viktoria Nihznik, who recently relocated to Fort Worth from Finland, contributes the magical shimmering sounds of the kantele, a rarely-heard Finnish plucked string instrument. The ensemble performs on instruments that are historical reproductions from the 16th-18th centuries.