Nicole Keller
Applied Faculty, Harpsichord

“…an aggressive player with outstanding technique and fine musical sensibilities…”
(The Chicago Crusader)

A native of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Nicole Keller is an active recitalist in the United States. In addition to being nominated for the Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize for Organ (year 2000), she competed in the Third Triennial Dallas International Organ Competition, the 1998-2000 National Young Artists Competition sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, the 4 th Annual Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo 2000, and the Grand Prix de Chartres in August of 2004. She is the 3 rd Place winner in the 2002 Gruenstein Memorial Organ Competition in Chicago, winner of the 1995 Baldwin-Wallace Concerto Competition and second place winner in the 1998 Agnes Fowler Organ Competition sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. Orchestral appearances include performances with the Baldwin-Wallace Symphony Orchestra and Amherst Chamber Ensemble of Amherst, New York.

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 under the tutelage of renowned concert organist 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, studying piano with George Cherry and Jean Stell and organ with Margaret Scharf. Ms. Keller is Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Hudson, Ohio. She is on the faculty of Cleveland State University, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and is co-director of the Music Under the Spire concert series at Baldwin-Wallace College. She is also the continuist for the Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra and was a featured performer at the 2003 American Guild of Organists Region V Convention.