Michael Keelan

Michael Keelan

Music Instructor - Strings

Music Department

Profile

Michael Keelan began his career as a member of the Lincoln Symphony, besides performing with the Omaha Symphony and his own musical family. While at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, outside Cleveland, he won the concerto competition with Tchaikovsky's concerto. From 2002-04 he was a member of the Fairfax (VA) Symphony outside Washington, D.C., while attending the University of Maryland.

He served as full-time artist/instructor of upper strings at the Wausau (WI) Conservatory of Music from 2004-08, also conducting the Wausau Area Youth Symphony. In 2004 he began playing as concertmaster of the Green Bay Symphony, which he continues today. He was additionally principal second violin of Appleton's Fox Valley Symphony during 2008-11. In 2009 he received an arts management certificate from the University of Massachusetts.

During the summers of 2010 and 2011 he taught at Baldwin-Wallace’s Summer Music Institute, and he began teaching strings for Nebraska’s Concordia University in 2011. Also in 2011 he was soloist with the Sioux City (IA) Symphony in Corigliano's Red Violin Chaconne, and in 2012 served as guest concertmaster of the Lincoln Symphony.

He has served as an adjudicator for many youth soloist and state string competitions and has considerable experience with youth orchestras; besides that in Wausau, he conducted the Green Bay Youth Symphony's Philharmonia Orchestra in 2009-11, and currently coaches the violin sections of Omaha’s senior youth orchestra.

His playing has been aired on Nebraska and Wisconsin public radio. His violin teachers were Elisabeth Adkins, Julian Ross, Anton Miller, and Morris Collier.

Education

M.M., University of Maryland - College Park
B.M., summa cum laude, Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music

Courses Taught

Applied strings