Florian Keller - My 1999 concerts!

March 1999: we just chose the 1999 scholarship winner of The Voices of Vienna. I, Florian Keller, am their music director and we will have our own home page soon. This $2500 scholarship honors a graduate student of the University of Minnesota, voice department. The recipient will travel to Salzburg, Austria (my home town) this summer and study with a celebrity at the international summer academy. We will also have several concerts in the Twin Cities area featuring the winner later this year. You will hear about it on this page!
The scholarship winner is a 24 year old soprano and her name is Sangeetha Rayapati. She is a wonderfully talented person (of course).


	Live audio from: Schubert concert! \| Church concert! \| Temple concert! Snoopy! \| New years concert!

	Annual Voices of Vienna Concert at A Capital New Year Downtown St. Paul MN, Landmark Center, Courtroom 317 Thursday December 19, 1999 at 9:30pm Last year we were sold out! Don't miss it. That evening you can also see one-hundred other performances on 25 indoor stages. See the link above for info. Update (December 31, 1999): Very successful performance. Many people. Hear a Mozart Aria , live from the concert!

	THE event of my artistic year: The Broadway Musical Snoopy at the Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson WI Opening night: Thursday November 4, 1999 at 8 pm
	Performance schedule: Nov. 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 26, 27 at 8 pm; Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28 at 2 pm I am the music director & pianist for this wonderful musical based on the peanuts comic-strip . Charlie Brown's friends and his faithful furry companion will entertain you through effervescent stories, songs & dances. The roles are performed by adults but the show will delight kids and grown-ups alike. Update (November 5, 1999): Great opening night! People really enjoyed themselves. Read the wonderful newspaper review (plus an audio sample!) Actors, us musicians, and audience alike. Should be a great run! (November 29) We did have a great run. Attendance could have been better. But absolutely everybody loved it!

	Voices of Vienna Scholarship Concert at the inaugural Rheinfest on the Mississippi Downtown St. Paul MN, Landmark Center Sunday September 19, 1999 at 2:30pm The Rheinfest is a celebration of German culture and heritage. Update (September 20, 1999): Nice auditorium. We did our best. Insiders enjoyed our concert. But being part of a big festival with constant ear-piercing Uhm-pa-pa music is questionable...

	Annual Voices of Vienna concert at Germanic American Institute , St. Paul MN ( map! ) Friday September 10, 1999 at 7:30pm It'll be the debut of our new tenor, Jeremy Cady. Update (September 11, 1999): Jeremy did great. I also played my role as the corny comedian well. Years ago these people were the first ones who laughed at my jokes. So I keep going...
	10th annual Slice of Shoreview outdoor festival and parade Shoreview MN, Island Lake Park ( map! ) Saturday July 31, 1999 (parade - 11:00am, concert - 12:30pm) I'll be performing with The Voices of Vienna and we'll add Broadway tunes and popular songs to our operettas and arias. Update (July 31, 1999): The concert was fun. We also participated in the parade, singing for the TV crew. It was not as hot as the days before, but the audience was still sweating. We handled the wind and the microphones well, those two outdoor perils!
	Annual concert at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, MN Sunday May 16, 1999 7:30pm I'll be performing with The Voices of Vienna and we'll feature soprano Sangeetha Rayapati. See the article below . Update (May 17, 1999): The concert was well received. Listen to some audio . Sangeetha had a fabulous debut! Top of page!
	Choral Fantasies with SW Orchestra at Holy Redeemer Church Marshall MN, Sunday April 25, 1999 4:00pm I'm singing all the bass-solo parts. The core piece is the Mass in A-Flat Major by Franz Schubert. Update (April 27, 1999): It was wonderful to sing in Church again! We had about 400 people and it sounded great! For the very first time I also got to sing parts of the ninth symphony (Beethoven). See below. ^{Listen to 'the ninth'} (If you don't have a 56k modem or a plug-in, go to my music archive ) Top of page!
	An Elegant Evening at Linwood A+ School 1023 Osceola Ave., St. Paul MN 55105 Wednesday April 14, 1999 6:30pm This is a fund raiser for the new playground! It's a wonderful talent showcase with a variety of performers. Update (April 15, 1999): The fundraiser was a big success! Now we can build the playground! I sang 'I got plenty of nuttin' (Gershwin) and played a piano duet version of 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (Mozart) with Jim Stevens.
	March 1999: we just chose the 1999 scholarship winner of The Voices of Vienna. I, Florian Keller, am their music director and we will have our own home page soon. This $2500 scholarship honors a graduate student of the University of Minnesota, voice department. The recipient will travel to Salzburg, Austria (my home town) this summer and study with a celebrity at the international summer academy. We will also have several concerts in the Twin Cities area featuring the winner later this year. You will hear about it on this page! The scholarship winner is a 24 year old soprano and her name is Sangeetha Rayapati. She is a wonderfully talented person (of course). Top of page!
	4th annual Schubert concert at Germanic - American Institute 301 Summit Street, St. Paul MN 55116 Saturday January 30, 1999 7:30pm and Sunday January 31, 4pm Update (Feb. 1, 1999): The concerts went very well. ^{Listen to some audio!} (If you don't have a 56k modem or a plug-in, go to my music archive ) We had a full house both days, even on Super Bowl Sunday! People loved me, if I may say so :) Click here to see a picture of us performers!
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