Events

September 19, 2026 – 1–3 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

Step into the world of Renaissance Mantua and meet Salamone Rossi, the Jewish court composer whose 1623 “Songs of Solomon” (Hashirim Asher LiShlomo) stands as the earliest known published collection of Hebrew liturgical music.

No singing experience required — everyone is welcome to raise their voice and try these beautiful harmonies firsthand!

November 21, 2026 – 2 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

Join Early Music Michigan for a choral concert exploring the rich and varied output of Salamone Rossi, the Jewish-Italian composer of the late Renaissance who crossed cultural and stylistic boundaries and helped to establish the new styles of the seventeenth-century Baroque.

January 9, 2027 – 1–3 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

To enrich your appreciation of our spring concert, join us for a sing along workshop on the tune “L’Homme Arme”! Participants will leave the workshop able to sing this fantastically catchy tune, in both major and minor versions, and ready to hear it as it is manipulated throughout the mass settings featured in our spring EMM concert.

February 13, 2027 – Time TBA
Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church
Kalamazoo, MI

While the western art music canon is overwhelmingly dominated by white men, at every moment in music history, the people working in music were a diverse cross section of society. Join Early Music Michigan for a chamber concert where we feature some of these underrepresented voices and works, including a cantata by the French Baroque composer Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and instrumental works by the so-called “Black Mozart,” Joseph de Boulougne, the Cavalier de St. George’s.

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May 15, 2027 – 2 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

From its origins as a fourteenth-century secular chanson, the tune L’homme Armé would become the most widely used cantus firmus in masses of the fifteenth century, with over forty known examples. Experience the wide array of interpretations of this tune as we feature movements from a half-dozen different mass movements using L’homme arme as a cantus firmus!