Michael Blaakman has sung with choirs from the Upper Midwest to Central Europe, including the William & Mary Choir, the Yale Camerata, the Christ Church Choir (New Haven, Conn.), Collegium Technicum (Košice, Slovakia), the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and Magnum Chorum (Minneapolis, Minn.). Having moved in and out of the Philadelphia area several times over the past decade, he's thrilled to be back for his third stint with the Chestnut Street Singers.

An assistant professor of early American history at Princeton University, Michael lives in Lawrenceville, N.J., with his wife Angharad and their crazy dog Winnie. His first book, a history of how the American Revolution sparked the United States' first real-estate boom, will be published in fall 2023 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. When not singing or rummaging through eighteenth-century mail, he enjoys gardening, working on home improvement projects of low to moderate difficulty, and catching a breeze aboard his small sailboat, Southpaw.

Michael Blaakman

Bass