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 | ALLISON LANDSTEDT, soprano, is the sole vocalist representing the U.S. Coast Guard Band and demonstrates the vocal mastery of numerous styles, including Broadway, opera, and commercial singing. She earned her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Music in Voice at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and is completing her Doctorate in Voice at the University of British Columbia.
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Landstedt was recognized nationally for her televised solo performance at the historic Yankee Stadium in New York. Video performances of her singing have reached millions of viewers. She has sung for some of the highest-ranking United States government officials, including the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Commandant US Coast Guard, the Deputy Secretary of DHS, as well as Fortune 500 executives.
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Landstedt is a dedicated and lively voice instructor. Her students have been accepted to Opera Artist Diploma and Bachelor of Musical Theater programs and won spots in professional theater companies across the U.S. and Canada. Her students have earned top prizes at singing, acting, and choral focused competitions. Landstedt won the 2013 Best Leading Actress in a Musical award for the state of Texas, continuing to the Broadway stage to compete in The Jimmy Awards, a televised national competition for winners of each state. She was four times awarded Best Actress in the 2013 Texas UIL One-Act-Play Competition and winner of the Honorable Mention All-star cast. For operatic singing, she was a finalist in the 2019 Patricia Corbett Competition and the 2018 Lewis Foundation Vocal Competition.
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Landstedt has coached with world-class artists such as Martin Katz, Kathy Kelly, Gary Wedow, and Howard Watkins. Her voice teachers include J. Patrick Raftery, Gwen Coleman, and Daniel Teadt.
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AWARDS | A shimmering, warm, and agile soprano, Allison's most recent work includes Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro; UBC Opera), Mary Crawford (Mansfield Park; UBC Opera), Contessa di Folleville (Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims; UBC Opera), Flora (The Turn of the Screw; CCM Opera), and Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica; CCM Opera). Allison was a finalist in the 2019 Patricia Corbett Competition and the Kristin Lewis Scholarship Foundation Competition. Modern opera roles present her with an energizing challenge for which she is uniquely prepared to approach through her extensive experience in storytelling, winning Best Actress at the Tommy Tune Awards and several other acting competitions in Texas. As the winner of Best Actress for the State of Texas via The Tommy Tune Awards, Allison qualified and competed as a finalist on the Broadway Stage at the Minskoff Theater in the 2013 week-long TV aired competition, The National High School Musical Theater Awards (The Jimmy Awards). Now pursuing classical music, Allison presents unique and full-bodied operatic characters by combining methodical score study and acting preparation methods.
DUO | In fostering her creative trajectory for collaborative endeavors and innovation in programming for modern audiences, Allison and American pianist, Gabriel Landstedt, founded a small chamber ensemble in 2021 called Keyprano Duo, which debuted in May 2022 as a Finalist ensemble for Astral Artists’ national search for their roster. Their ensemble mission is to promote equity and inclusion of underrepresented groups, which they achieve through thoughtful programming highlighting composers who identify in these groups, especially celebrating women creatives. As Keyprano Duo, they participated in the 2022 summer festival, The Collaborative Piano Institute, where they studied collaborative techniques with Martin Katz, Kathy Kelly, Howard Watkins, Martha Guth, Ana Maria Otamendi, and more.
VOICE INSTRUCTOR | Allison is also an experienced voice instructor and enjoys seeing the impact of her mentorship on student progress, knowing that achieving success in a voice lesson can translate much further in a student’s academic careers than in music alone. Since 2018, Allison has taught voice lessons to all voice types, styles of music, levels of experience, male and female voices, from diverse academic and artistic backgrounds. Allison’s students’ record of success shows winning spots in opera Artist Diploma programs, bachelors in musical theater, and professional theater companies across North America. Through her artistic direction and coaching, she led the CMU Treblemakers to First Prize for their a cappella performance in the 2017 ICCA Quarterfinals in Pittsburgh. In the classroom as the voice instructor for UBC undergraduate music education majors, Allison has taught dramatic interpretation skills, a crash-course in IPA, diction for singers (Italian, German, French, English), navigating registers and vocal health topics. Allison enjoys the moments of meaningful student mentorship that her job requires, and is devoted to nurturing student excellence and ambition, offering her support to student concerns.
Allison currently teaches voice lessons in Essex, CT at Community Music School.
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.
