Nicole Keller is in demand as a solo and chamber music recitalist and clinician in the United States. She enjoys exploring all aspects of organ repertoire, especially pairing new music for the instrument with the staples of the repertoire. She performs regularly as a solo and collaborative artist on the organ, piano and harpsichord, exploring organ duo repertoire with Timothy Olsen, Kenan Professor of Organ at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC.

Ms. Keller serves as 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 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 choirs will be in residence at Bristol Cathedral in England in the summer of 2011.

Ms. Keller is co-director Festival of Liturgical Arts of the Western Reserve (FLAWR), a five-day conference devoted to exploring the symbiotic relationship between music and preaching. FLAWR will debut in June of 2011, co-hosted by Christ Church Episcopal and Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH. Together with co-director Rev. Brian Suntken, Ms. Keller has assembled a distinguished roster of clinicians and guest performers for the first conference, including Dr. Gerre Hancock, Todd Wilson, Professor Thomas G. Long of Emory University, and Rev. Mitties MacDonald DeChamplain of The General Seminary in New York.

In August of 2010 Ms. Keller was an instructor in the Internationale Orgelakademie at St. Stephan's Cathedral in Passau, Germany. The course focused on American and English organ music and included students from several countries in Europe. In conjunction with the course, Ms. Keller played a recital at St. Stephan's Cathedral and at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Waldkirchen with Horst Buchholz, Canon for Music and worship at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland.

Ms. Keller has been the continuist for the Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra since 2000. Works include several performances of the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, the Mass in b minor, the Christmas Oratorio, and a host of cantatas, concerti and choral and orchestral chamber music of Bach and his colleagues and predecessors. She has also played numerous chamber music recitals with flute, cello, brass and voice on organ and harpsichord with members of the Baldwin-Wallace College faculty and members of The Cleveland Orchestra.

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 Dr. 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 was previously on the faculties of Cleveland State University and the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.

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