Nicole Keller
Christ Church Episcopal
Hudson, OH
(330) 650-4359
nicole.keller@christchurchhudson.org

A native of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Nicole Keller is an active recitalist and continuo player in the United States.  In addition to being nominated for the Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize for Organ (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 4th Annual Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo 2000, the Grand Prix de Chartres in August of 2004, and the 2005 Concours St-Maurice, Switzerland.  She is the 3rd Place winner in the 2002 Gruenstein Memorial Organ Competition in Chicago and was a featured performer at the 2003 American Guild of Organists Region V Convention.

Ms. Keller is Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, Ohio where she oversees a vibrant music ministry dedicated to highest standards of excellence in music for worship.  Under her leadership the church has implemented a successful monthly concert series followed by traditional Anglican Evensong led by the Canterbury Singers of Christ Church.  The newly implemented Trinity Scholar program provides an internship program for aspiring organists, vocalists and conductors.  The St. Cecilia Choir (grades 2-6) is enrolled in the Royal School of Church Music curriculum and provides leadership in worship services every week.  The newly formed Schola Cantorum has a roster of 15 cantors who specialize in plainchant psalm singing. 

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 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.  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 the Lindsay-Crossman Chapel of Baldwin-Wallace College.  She is the continuist for the Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra.

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