KEYPRANO'S STORY
What do you call it when a Soprano meets a Keyboard player? Keyprano Duo! Gabriel and Allison met as graduate music students at the University of British Columbia while taking a course called "Art Song Interpretation". Casually they began rehearsing a collaboration for class performances, all the while steadily establishing an artistic partnership which has now gained enthusiastic support for the creation of an official duo; thus, Keyprano Duo!
ALLISON LANDSTEDT
(ANDERSON)
Soprano
ABOUT |
In January 2023, Musician First Class Allison J. Landstedt joined the U.S. Coast Guard Band as its soprano soloist, becoming only the fourth singer to hold the position in the band’s history. She performs as a featured soloist and concert host with the band and its small ensembles at official functions, state dinners and receptions, ceremonies, sporting events, and public concerts nationwide, presenting repertoire that spans opera, Broadway, and American patriotic music. Since joining the band, she has performed in eighteen states at venues including Yankee Stadium, Arlington National Cemetery, the National Building Museum, the Cannon Center, and the Lied Center, with solo performances also featured on PBS NewsHour.
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ARTISTIC WORK |
Landstedt is active in the creation of new vocal repertoire. She has commissioned and premiered works by composers including John Tafone, Daniel Burton, Jamshed Turel, Alex Petti, Ben Ledochowski, and Josh Devries, expanding contemporary repertories for voice–piano, harp–soprano, and soprano–wind ensemble. Her performances are featured on the album Ready For The Call! by the U.S. Coast Guard Band, including the aria “Chacun le sait” from Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. She has performed for distinguished audiences including U.S. Presidents, Commandants of the Coast Guard, Cabinet secretaries, admirals, and leaders from organizations such as SpaceX, The Boeing Company, and Lockheed Martin.
TRAINING & EDUCATION |
A native of Houston, Texas, she began training in music, dance, and acting at age six at the Humphrey School of Music and later joined the Houston Grand Opera High School Voice Studio at seventeen. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017 and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2019. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Opera at the University of British Columbia in 2025, where her research on body language in song recital has been cited by scholars in nineteen countries. She also trained at the Collaborative Piano Institute and CCM’s Opera Bootcamp and has coached with artists including Martin Katz, Kathy Kelly, Gary Wedow, and Robin Guarino. Her teachers include Prof. J. Patrick Raftery, Dr. Gwen Coleman, Prof. Daniel Teadt, and Dr. Jason Lester.
HONORS |
Early in her career, Landstedt received recognition in both musical theatre and dramatic acting. In 2013, she won Best Leading Actress in a Musical at the Tommy Tune Awards in Houston and represented Texas at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (“The Jimmy Awards”), performing on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre. That same year, she was named Best Actress in a Play four times, earning All-Star Cast honors at the Texas UIL State Championships. She later pursued operatic performance, becoming a finalist in the Kristin Lewis Foundation Vocal Competition (2018) and the Patricia Corbett Opera Competition (2019).
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PERFORMANCE & RESEARCH |
Her operatic roles include Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), Mary Crawford (Mansfield Park), Countess of Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims), Flora (The Turn of the Screw), and Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica). She has received numerous academic honors, including twenty-three scholarship awards and the Robert H. Lee Award in Opera at the University of British Columbia. She held graduate teaching assistantships in voice at both CCM and UBC for a total of four and a half years and served as a research assistant on UBC’s “Brain on Opera” project in collaboration with the Peter Wall Institute and the Brain Behaviour Laboratory. Her doctoral work developed rehearsal tools for singer–pianist duos that explore how physical gesture and embodiment shape expressive interpretation in collaborative performance.
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TEACHING |
An experienced teacher, her students have been accepted to leading summer programs, universities, and honor ensembles across the United States and Canada, including Interlochen, Theatre Under the Stars, the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas at Austin, the Connecticut All-State Chorus, and the Texas All-State Choir. She also serves as the Coast Guard Band’s soloist for the Community Outreach Initiative concert series, reaching more than 7,000 students annually.
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KEYPRANO DUO |
In 2021, she and American pianist Dr. Gabriel Landstedt founded Keyprano Duo, a voice–piano chamber ensemble. The duo debuted in May 2022 as a finalist in Astral Artists’ national roster search. Their programs explore a wide range of repertoire, from classical song and opera to contemporary and newly commissioned works. As Keyprano Duo, they have participated in the Collaborative Piano Institute, studying with Martin Katz, Kathy Kelly, Howard Watkins, Martha Guth, and Ana Maria Otamendi.
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She continues to perform, teach, and collaborate as a soloist and chamber musician, connecting performance, research, and education in her work across the United States.
GABRIEL LANDSTEDT
Pianist
An exciting and sensitive pianist, Gabriel Landstedt has showcased his talent at various festivals and competitions across North America and Europe. His recent accolades include the Grand Prize and Best Performance of the Commissioned Piece at the Architecture of Music Competition, the Grand Prize in the Royal Sound Music Competition, the bronze medal in the WPTA Finland Competition, and the UBC Concerto Competition runner-up. Notably, in his youth, he received numerous awards in his home state of New Mexico, including the First Prize in the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition, which led to his orchestral debut with the New Mexico Philharmonic at age sixteen. Over the years, Landstedt has participated in prestigious festivals such as the Klavierfestival Lindlar, Chautauqua Piano Program, Art of the Piano, Eastern Music Festival, Collaborative Piano Institute, New Mexico Chamber Music Festival, the John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, Southwest Piano Festival, Salzburg International Summer Academy, and the Val Tidone and Brindisi Piano Camps.
Landstedt has performed solo and collaborative recitals throughout North America and Europe. This season’s performance venues include Carnegie Hall, Fazioli Concert Hall, and Palau de la Música Catalana. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Landstedt’s online performances included appearances at the Art of Piano festival and on a series of online live-streamed concerts on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. In 2016, Landstedt recorded Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Albuquerque-based Duke Symphonette. He made his New York debut the following year. Landstedt has also been a featured guest artist at numerous high-profile events, including the Canada G-12 meeting of university presidents, the UBC Alumni Awards, and UNM alumni events.
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In addition to his solo endeavors, Landstedt is actively engaged in chamber and vocal music performances. He has also been a supporting member of several large ensembles, including the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony, where he took part in several world premieres. Furthermore, in 2021 he established the vocal-piano ensemble Keyprano Duo with his wife, soprano Allison Landstedt, offering diverse musical styles from art song to cabaret to musical theater. A dedicated choral collaborator, Landstedt has worked and performed with choirs for over a decade throughout the United States and Canada. His most recent church position as Music Director at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver, BC, will be followed by a post as organist/keyboardist at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Norwich, CT, beginning in September 2024.
Embracing the role of a dedicated educator, Landstedt tailors his pedagogical approach to nurture the love for music in each student while fostering self-confidence and artistic expression. The core of his teaching philosophy is to foster artistic expression built upon disciplined, fundamental technique and freedom of movement. Landstedt taught class piano and secondary piano lessons at the University of British Columbia, and he has also been on the faculty of numerous private music schools, guiding his students to achieve competition prizes and exam honors. Currently, he serves as a faculty member at Thames Valley Music School and The Music School in eastern Connecticut.
Gabriel Landstedt’s musical journey began in Los Lunas, New Mexico, where he began studying piano with his mother at age five. By age fourteen, he was accepted to the studio of Falko Steinbach at the University of New Mexico, where he was awarded the Presidential Scholarship and the Theodore Presser Award. Landstedt graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree and Second Major in German, where his German Honors thesis earned him the Excellence in German Studies Book Award. His bachelor’s studies included a year abroad at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in Germany, where he studied under Markus Bellheim and Silke-Thora Matthies. Landstedt pursued further studies at the Manhattan School of Music under Arkady Aronov and completed his Master of Music degree at UBC under Mark Anderson. He is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UBC as a recipient of the university’s premier Four Year Fellowship.
Outside of his musical pursuits, Landstedt is an active writer, with his poetry being adapted into musical pieces performed by the United States Coast Guard Band. His diverse interests also extend to outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, and soccer. Landstedt currently resides in Connecticut.
