Michael Keelan
Michael Keelan grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, as the only junior high student in town to call and win public radio quizzes. He played the violin on the state's NPR network in high school, going on to earn degrees in music from Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio and the University of Maryland-College Park. Michael began hosting on NET Radio, Nebraska's NPR Network, at the same time as playing for the Omaha Symphony, which gave him the unique opportunity to host his own performances. (He did not try to simultaneously engineer the recordings.) Prior to that ensemble, he was concertmaster of the Green Bay, Wisconsin Symphony for several years. Besides his work at KPR, he is the orchestral conductor at Ottawa University, which also welcomes community players. Previously, he was on the music faculties of Concordia University-Nebraska and the Wausau Conservatory.
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Mozart's farce with a heart is conducted by Michael Christie at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City from September 21-29. Michael Keelan talked with him about…
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Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin is known for her large discography of Baroque opera, but her new recording is a more dramatic title role in Olimpie, the…
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Violinist Augustin Hadelich has paired a warhorse, the Brahms violin concerto, with the fiendishly difficult concerto by the avant-garde master Ligeti.…
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Ukrainian pianist Anna Shelest has recorded a recital titled Donna Voce of the most famous 19th-20th century female pianist composers, with one…
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Canadian pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre has recorded the chamber music of André Mathieu (1929-68) on a new album with string players. Sylvestre talked…
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A new album from the Rochester Philharmonic and their music director Ward Stare features Yolanda Kondonassis and the new harp concerto written for her by…
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The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum hosts commemorative events from June 1-6 in honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of…
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Violinist and conductor John Georgiadis was concertmaster of the City of Birmingham, and later London Symphony Orchestras in the 1960s and 70s. He took up…
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A new album from Jan Kraybill, one of the region's most visible organists, features transcriptions of orchestral music. Michael Keelan talked with her.
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Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a famous violin solo in his Danse Macabre (Ghoulish Dance) for orchestra. It's played by the concertmaster of the Utah Symphony,…