Cara Lieurance

1 week ago | wmuk.org | Cara Lieurance

The Kalamazoo Philharmonia’s concert at 7:30 pm on Saturday, Mar 31 honors a unique anniversary, suggested to music director Andrew Koehler by predecessoro Barry Ross. “Copland at K” remembers Aaron Copland’s visit to Kalamazoo College to receive an honorary degree 60 years ago. Hosted at the Light Fine Arts Building, the concert promises a blend of Copland’s music and contemporary American voices, including the world premiere of a new bassoon concertino by Michigan composer Philip Rugel.

1 week ago | wmuk.org | Cara Lieurance

On Sunday, Jun 1 at 3 p.m., Early Music Michigan will present a concert of medieval music at the First Congregational Church in downtown Kalamazoo. The program is titled “Douce Jolie: Christine de Pizan and Guillaume de Machaut in Dialogue.”“All the music you will hear will be Machaut,” says Luke Conklin, Early Music Michigan’s artistic and executive director.

2 weeks ago | wmuk.org | Cara Lieurance

The 2025 Bravo! Competition Concert takes place tonight, May 21, at 7 pm in the Joliffe Theatre in the Epic Center. Two of the 11 winners, Hazel Arugalsan and pianist Danielle Kwon, join Cara Lieurance to talk about their musical experiences, along with Bravo! Competition assistant coordinator Cori Somers. The auditions took place in late April, judged by a panel of three local musicians: violinist Joanna Steinhauser, bass trombonist Kip Hickman, and clarinetist Georgy Borisov.

2 weeks ago | wmuk.org | Cara Lieurance

Many years ago while seeking inspiration for a boychoir performance piece, composer and hammered dulcimer player Malcolm Dalglish came across the poem that would spawn an ever-growing collection of song settings under the title Hymnody of Earth. Now comprised of hundreds of selections, a portion will be performed tonight at 7:30 PM at Stetson Chapel, in a Kalamazoo College premiere, offering a rare blend of poetry, hammered dulcimer, choral voices, and global percussion traditions.

3 weeks ago | wmuk.org | Cara Lieurance

The new songs on Kalamazoo-raised songwriter Elisabeth Pixley-Fink's newest album, Heartskin," spanned the time she spent in Portland, Oregon, while working full-time and bike commuting. "The inspiration would show up on my bike commute... it would show up at my lunch breaks. I finished the song 'Your Song' in the basement of the school," she tells Cara Lieurance.