Hailed as a “skilled and stylish player with a keen ear for orchestration” (The American Organist Magazine) Nicole Keller has earned a reputation for colorful, virtuosic performances praised by audiences and presenters as unique concert experiences. She has performed on significant instruments in historic 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.

Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Keller’s appearances with orchestra include concertos, works for small chamber orchestra, and large works involving organ, harpsichord, and piano. In recent seasons, she debuted 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. She has extensive experience as a continuo player in 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.

Ms. Keller’s debut commercial recording, Those Americans, was released by Raven CDs in 2024. The album is praised as “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). The music paints a picture of the diverse landscape of 20th century American organ music through the works of Rayner Brown, Calvin Hampton, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Anne Wilson.

Ms. Keller was recently appointed to the faculty of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan, leading a program focused on discipline, scholarship, and love for the instrument and its many possibilities and repertoire in all forms. She is dedicated to teaching and mentoring students to prepare for careers as performers, teachers, and church musicians as well as musicians who create new opportunities and identities for the modern organist.

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, where she studied piano with George Cherry and Jean Stell and organ with Margaret Scharf.

Nicole Keller is represented in North American exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

Chelsea Chen’s dynamic playing has taken her to the far corners of the world. Her solo concerts offer a unique mix of traditional organ repertoire along with piano/orchestral transcriptions and contemporary music. The Los Angeles Times has praised her “rare musicality” and “lovely lyrical grandeur,” and a compositional style that is “charming” and “irresistible.”

Chelsea has performed with numerous ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Singapore Chinese Orchestra (a traditional Chinese instruments ensemble) and the Lou Harrison Festival Rutgers Orchestra at Trinity Wall Street in Manhattan.  Highlights of recent seasons include solo concerts at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, as well as a joint performance with the brass of the Philadelphia Orchestra at Girard College in Philadelphia, PA.

Ms. Chen originally hails from San Diego, where her formative music teachers were organists Leslie Robb (St. Paul’s Lutheran, San Diego) and Monte Maxwell (US Naval Academy, Annapolis) and pianists Baruch Arnon (New York City), Jane Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers (San Diego). She studied under Paul Jacobs and John Weaver at The Juilliard School in New York, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She also won the John Erskine Prize for academic and artistic achievement, awarded to one graduate per year. After college she moved to Taiwan under a Fulbright scholarship, whereupon she collected folk songs and wrote organ solo and chamber music. She returned to the U.S. to study with Thomas Murray at Yale University, where she earned an Artist Diploma. In 2009, Wayne Leupold Editions published her composition “Taiwanese Suite” to great acclaim.

Ms. Chen has recorded multiple CDs: Reveries (2011) at Bethel University, Live at Heinz Chapel at the 2005 Convention of the American Institute of Organbuilders, Eastern Treasures (2010) with violinist Lewis Wong, Live at Coral Ridge (2014), and Explorations for Cello and Organ (2018) with cellist Joseph Lee. Her playing has been aired on CNN.com, “Pipedreams” from American Public Media, Hawaii Public Radio, and Taiwan’s Good News Radio. Committed to new music, she has premiered works by composers throughout the world including Ola Gjeilo (Norway/USA), Yui Kitamura (Japan/USA), Paul Desenne (Venezuela), Roderick Gorby (USA), Vincent Rone (USA), and Viviane Waschbüsch (Germany). Her compositions are available exclusively from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.

From 2013-2017, Ms. Chen was Artist-in-Residence at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, where she performed and directed the Concert Series.  At present, she serves as Artist-in-Residence at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.