Nicole Keller

Nicole Keller is a concert artist in high demand specializing in eclectic programs that span the centuries and musical styles with ease. Her performances have featured historic and significant instruments and venues including 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. Appearances with orchestra include concertos, works for small chamber orchestra, and large works involving organ, harpsichord, and piano. She has extensive experience as a chamber musician and continuo player, including many performances of Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor in addition to a host of baroque cantatas and chamber music. This season’s concerts feature five world premieres for solo organ, chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble including Concerto for Organ No. 5 in memoriam György Ligeti by Bálint Karosi, and the debut of Handel: Made in America by Terrance McKnight and Pat Eakin Young at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her debut commercial recording, Those Americans, is a narrative on the American landscape of organ composition through the works of Rayner Brown, Calvin Hampton, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Anne Wilson and will be released later this year. She was recently appointed to the faculty of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan and is Visiting Instructor of Organ at the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Nicole 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 under the tutelage of David Higgs. While at Eastman, she studied 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 Jean Stell and organ with Margaret Scharf.