Events

October 12, 2025 – 2 p.m.
Connable Recital Hall, Light Fine Arts Building, Kalamazoo College

Join Early Music Michigan for a special harpsichord concert featuring esteemed guest Yago Mahúgo, one of the most important Spanish musicians in the field of historically informed performance! This concert, Mahúgo’s only U.S. appearance on his world tour, will include pieces by Francois, Louis, and Armand Louis Couperin, George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Antonioa Soler. 

November 15, 2025 – 2 p.m.
Kalamazoo Friends Meeting House
Kalamazoo, MI

Enjoy holiday cheer, singing with your neighbors, and cider and cookies! Join Early Music Michigan and Kalamazoo Sacred Harp singers to learn about the traditional American art of shape note singing and practice the form together with early American carols. Then join EMM at our holiday concert on December 6, 2025 for more early American holiday songs!

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.

March 1, 2026 – 3 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
Kalamazoo, MI

Early 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.

May 30, 2026 – 3 p.m.
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI

Early 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.