Name: Guest Master Class – Nicole Keller, organ
Start: 2024-09-14T10:00:00
Location: Auer Hall

Nicole Keller

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Nicole Keller is in demand as a concert artist, adjudicator, and clinician. She has concertized in the United States and abroad in such venues as St. Patrick Cathedral (New York), Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Paris), and The Kazakh National University for the Arts (Astana, Kazakhstan). She specializes in eclectic programs suited to instrument and audience with a desire to expand the listener’s horizons, pairing familiar sounds and genres with less familiar ones. Keller’s 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 Passions, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B Minor, in addition to a host of cantatas and baroque chamber music. As a teacher, Keller strives to foster and model a commitment to excellence in performance, scholarship, and self-growth. Her students have attended prestigious graduate schools throughout the country and enjoy successful musical careers. She was recently appointed to the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and is visiting instructor of organ at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Keller’s extensive church music experience includes work in with volunteer and professional choirs and instrumental ensembles devoted to the highest level of music for worship. She has created organ and choral scholar programs at small and mid-size parishes, developed successful children’s choir programs, and has led choirs on tour in the States and abroad. Keller received the Performer’s Certificate and earned a Master of Music in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of David Higgs. While at Eastman, she studied continuo with Arthur Haas and improvisation with Gerre Hancock. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, where she studied piano with George Cherry and Jean Stell and organ with Margaret Scharf