Musician, Arts Administrator, Matchmaker

Organist Emily Solomon serves as Cantor for Zion Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Detroit. She is also the Executive Director for the Academy of Early Music in Ann Arbor and Co-Director of LCMS Connections, a free matchmaking platform for Lutheran singles.

In 2020, Emily received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Sacred Music from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded a Rackham Dissertation Fellowship to support her research on the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book of 1912. Emily also completed dual Master of Music degrees in Sacred Music and Early Keyboard Instruments at the University of Michigan in 2017.

Emily was appointed as a Schalk Scholar by the Center for Church Music in 2024 and, as part of her appointment, was pleased to present at the 2025 Lectures in Church Music, held at Concordia University Chicago. She enjoys creating and maintaining websites for a select roster of clients, including Gottesdienst: The Journal of the Lutheran Liturgy.

Emily was invited to perform on the Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival in Kuopio, Finland in May 2018. In May 2017, she also toured Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as the organist for the Concordia University Ann Arbor choir. Emily was named as one of The Diapason's 20 Under 30 Class of 2019, an award that recognizes young talents in the fields of organ and harpsichord performance, organ and harpsichord building, carillon, and church music.

In 2014, she completed a Master of Arts in Music Research at Western Michigan University with a thesis on Johann Walther's Geistliches Gesangbüchlein. While at WMU, Emily received the School of Music's Graduate Award for Excellence in Leadership/Service, was inducted to Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Alpha Theta honor societies, and was appointed as the School of Music Tutor.

Emily's paintings and photography have been displayed in various exhibits at the Downriver Council for the Arts in Wyandotte, Michigan, where she has received multiple honorable mentions for her work. During the summer of 2019, she was the featured artist for the Downriver Council for the Arts's Satellite Gallery in Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. Her work has also appeared at Western Michigan University in a Lee Honors College exhibit, Parallel Perspectives (2010). She enjoys capturing a wide range of subjects, but is particularly drawn to the beauty of maritime life in Michigan and is a longtime member of the American Society of Marine Artists.

A proud Michigan native, Emily is a Certified Tourism Ambassador™ for Washtenaw County and serves as membership coordinator for the Soo Locks Visitors Association in the Upper Peninsula. During her spare time, Emily enjoys volunteering as an Airport Ambassador at Detroit Metro Airport and was nominated for a 2024 Rose Award by Visit Detroit in recognition of her efforts at the airport.