Lois Kaarre played her first church service at the age of 12 at St. John Lutheran Church in West Branch, Michigan, and has played nearly every Sunday since then. She has served as Music Director at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor, University Lutheran Chapel in Ann Arbor, Concord Lutheran Church in Rochester, NY, and now has served All Saints’ since 2003.
Ms. Kaarre has taught piano and at Oakland University since 2002, where she also accompanies faculty and student performances and the OU choirs. She had previously done the same at Eastern Michigan University for many years.
She left EMU in 2000 to work on a doctorate in Chamber Music and Accompanying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY for two years, returning to southeast Michigan to work at Oakland. Her master’s degree in piano performance is from Eastern Michigan University, and her bachelor’s degree in piano, church music, and religion, is from Concordia College in Ann Arbor.
She has maintained an active performance schedule, largely as a collaborative pianist, having played frequent recitals at OU, EMU, and on the All Saints’ Recital Series, as well as the University of Michigan, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (where she chaired the piano department for many years), Michigan Opera Theatre, the Ohio Light Opera, Marshall University, and a recital at Carnegie Hall with a competition-winning soprano.
To combat idleness she regularly teaches a full complement of private students of all ages and abilities, and enjoys a bit of travel as time permits.
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