PELLA — Central College’s music program invites the community to celebrate the season with a series of festive performances.

The College Community Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in the upper Chapel. The ensemble will be conducted by Kris DeWild, orchestra director, adjunct instructor of music and 1990 alumna. This concert will feature a student conductor, Quin Hull, Class of 2026 from Ottumwa, Iowa, and Luci Laidlaw, Class of 2026 from Pella, Iowa, as a soloist. Admission is free.

The annual Christmas Candlelight Concerts will be Dec. 4-6 in Des Moines and on Central’s campus. The A Cappella Choir, Chamber Singers and College Community Orchestra will perform “On Our Way to Bethlehem.” The concert will be directed by Mark Babcock, M. Joan Kuyper Farver Endowed Chair in Music, professor of music and 1991 Central alumnus, and DeWild.

The first performance will begin 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 4114 Allison Ave. in Des Moines. In Pella, the concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 6, Douwstra Auditorium on Hoekstra Family Stage. Tickets for adults are $15; students up to age 12 and senior citizens are $12; and admission is free to those who present a Central ID.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble and Flying Pans Steel Band will perform their Winter Serenade at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, in Douwstra Auditorium on Hoekstra Family Stage. The wind ensemble will be conducted by Brad Lampe, lecturer of music. Stan Dahl, senior lecturer of music, will direct the Percussion Ensemble and Flying Pans Steel Band. Tickets will be $5 or a new unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots; admission is free with a Central ID.