With playing described as having “aplomb” and “finely controlled energy” (Organists’ Review), Nicole Keller has risen to the forefront of the organ world as an engaging concert performer, insightful and exacting pedagogue, and effective and inspiring teacher. Specializing in eclectic programs that expand the listener’s horizons and pair familiar sounds and genres with less familiar ones, her playing is distinguished for being artful, aggressive, stylish, and ideal. Her performances and recording of the works of American composers have garnered uniformly high praise. Ms. Keller is Assistant Professor of Organ and University Organist at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance, following 20 years on faculty at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.
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From the Critics
“This is an exciting programme of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by composers from the USA…Nicole Keller meets their considerable technical challenges with aplomb, as the outer movements bristle with finely controlled energy, while the contrasts of the inner movements are equally finely captured.”
(Organists’ Review, December 2024)
“Her artful orchestrations bring these pieces to life and allow the listener to fully enjoy their beauty and possibility… Keller brings out these features in what I believe to be the definitive recording of Price’s best work for organ.”
(The American Organist, December 2024)
“…the performances are top-notch. Keller is a skilled and stylish player with a keen ear for orchestration and a strong sense of rhythm.”
(The American Organist, December 2024)
“A warm welcome to this collection of organ rarities, played with outstanding advocacy by Nicole Keller. This is incisive and vigorous music and a formidable technical challenge, happily met in full by Nicole Keller. Her playing is of the first rank…”.
(Malcolm Riley, Gramophone, October 2024)
“Nicole Keller does not shy away from the playfully difficult repertoire; indeed, she is an ideal custodian of it. In the wrong hands, such pieces are lost to their surface preciousness. Unlocked by Keller’s wise musicianship, however, their deeper poignance is clear to behold. What a pleasure to observe a player so clearly at ease in her body during musicmaking. Keller appeared tension-free and absolutely balanced even when the music she created held such drama and flair.”
(The American Organist, October 2024)
“Harpsichordist Nicole Keller sounded assured from the start of the elder Bach’s Concerto in d . With wonderfully subtle timing in unaccompanied solo passages and steadiness in her interactions with the orchestra, Keller conveyed growing intensity despite the instrument’s limited dynamic range.”
(ClevelandClassical.com, May 2019)
“The intricate solo organ part sparkled as played by BW [Baldwin-Wallace] organ faculty member Nicole Keller on the sweet-sounding Ruggles continuo organ.”
(ClevelandClassical.com, April 2015)
Recorded at First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama
Works of Rayner Brown, Calvin Hampton, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Anne Wilson