Early Music Michigan

Bringing ancient and rare music to Southwest Michigan

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Since 1996, Early Music Michigan has been performing early music in a dynamic, varied, and historically informed manner that honors this body of rare and ancient musical treasures, the artistic voice, and the humanity of collaborative music making. We welcome new singers and instrumentalists who would like to perform with us!

Upcoming events

An Early American Holiday

December 6, 2025 – 3 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

Early Music Michigan explores early music from New England, New France, and New Spain. This concert will include diverse repertoires including the learned choral writing of Lowell Mason versus the congregational sound and unique harmony of shape note singing from William Billings as well as featuring some early American classical and folk music for instruments and voices.

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Chant as Early Music: A Workshop

February 7, 2026 – 3 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

In this workshop, we will explore some of the oldest manuscripts containing chant notation and use them to inform a highly nuanced performance of this remarkable music. There is a unique thrill that accompanies looking at a 1200-year-old manuscript and translating it into sound. And this won’t be a purely academic exercise—we will sing the results of our explorations together!

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More Early Music Michigan Events

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December2025
An Early American HolidayEarly Music Michigan explores early music from New England, New France, and New Spain. This concert will include diverse repertoires including the learned choral writing of Lowell Mason versus the congregational sound and unique harmony of shape note singing from William Billings as well as featuring some early American classical and folk music for instruments and voices.
3 p.m.First Congregational Church,
Kalamazoo, MI
7
February2026
Chant as Early MusicIn this workshop, we will explore some of the oldest manuscripts containing chant notation and use them to inform a highly nuanced performance of this remarkable music.
3 p.m.First Congregational Church,
Kalamazoo, MI
1
March2026
Music to Tug at your HarpstringsEarly Music Michigan presents a program featuring Cleveland-based historical and folk harpist and soprano Anna O’Connell. The repertoire will include accompanied song from seventeenth-century France, Ireland, and Italy, which explores the unique sound of the Baroque double harp in combination with voice, flute, and other instruments.
3 p.m.Trinity Lutheran Church,
Kalamazoo, MI
30
May2026
Looking Bach – J. S. Bach and the Music of PalestrinaEarly Music Michigan celebrates our twenty-fifth season and the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina by juxtaposing motets and madrigals of Palestrina with the motets of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach famously studied the works of Palestrina as the basis for some of his own compositions, despite their antiquity.
TBDFirst Congregational Church,
Kalamazoo, MI

About Early Music Michigan

EMM specializes in bringing to the public rarely performed music dating back hundreds of years, as well as music from our own time, performed in beautiful spaces with wonderful acoustics. As an early music ensemble emphasizing historically informed performance, we occupy a valuable niche, providing music and creative programming that would not otherwise be available in the greater Kalamazoo area.

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