2022 Spring Arts Season: Kilgen Organ Recital Series: Nicole Keller Organist
2022 Spring Arts Season: Kilgen Organ Recital Series: Nicole Keller Organist
from Suite No. 1 for Organ Florence B. Price (1887-1953)
I. Fantasy
III. Air
IV. Toccato
I Love Thee, My Lord George Shearing (1919-2011)
There Is A Happy Land George Shearing
from Five Dances for Organ Calvin Hampton (1938-1984)
I. The Primitives
II. At the Ballet
Toccata Anne Wilson (b. 1954)
Nicole Keller is in demand as a concert artist, teacher, adjudicator, and clinician. She has concertized in the States and abroad in venues such as St. Patrick Cathedral, New York; Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris; Dom St. Stephan, Passau; St. Patrick Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland; and The Kazakh National University for the Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan. Her performances with orchestras includes concertos, works for small chamber orchestra, and large works involving organ, harpsichord, and piano. She has extensive experience as a chamber musician and as a continuo player, including many performances of Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and the Mass in B minor in addition to a host of cantatas and chamber music. Ms. Keller’s work as a church musician includes work in with volunteer and professional choirs and instrumental ensembles and has has led choirs on tour in the States and abroad including choral residencies at Bristol Cathedral, U.K. and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
She currently serves as Associate Organist at Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal), Cleveland and was recently appointed to the faculty of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan where she will begin teaching in the Fall of 2022. Ms. Keller received the Performer’s Certificate and the Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York studying organ with David Higgs, continuo with Arthur Haas, and improvisation with Gerre Hancock. She received the Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio, where she studied piano with George Cherry and organ with Margaret Scharf.