The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club

Under the interim direction of Professor Michael Mitchell, Michigan’s world-renowned glee club will conclude its 2025 tour of the Northeast United States with a performance of classic choral music, spirituals, new works, popular tunes, and Michigan songs. The club’s comedic acappella group, The Friars, will also be featured to entertain. And in keeping with tour tradition, alumni of the Glee Club are expected to convene from all over the country to join in singing a few songs with the choir on its final tour night. The concert will be followed by a no-host party next door at The Hugh, Midtown’s fantastic culinary collective, 157 East 53rd Street, with fifteen restaurants including a wine bar and a craft beer taproom.

About the Performers

Founded in 1859, the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club is the second oldest collegiate chorus in the United States and the oldest continually-run student organization on the Michigan campus. Long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world, the Glee Club has achieved this stature by sustaining and respecting the traditions which have been established during its 165-year history. The graduate and undergraduate members of the Glee Club, chosen by audition at the beginning of both the Fall and Winter terms, represent a wide spectrum of majors in a majority of the University's 19 schools and colleges and its student officers are responsible for the management of all non-musical Glee Club operations. The Glee Club has become well known for its wide repertoire of music that incorporates selections from different musical styles and periods including Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems, opera choruses, folk songs, spirituals, contemporary works, and, of course, Michigan songs. In the past twenty years, the Glee Club has toured the British Isles (2004), Cuba (2011), China (2012), South Africa (2016) and South America (2024).

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