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 | As an innovative and versatile vocalist, Allison’s expertise is in opera, art song, and musical theater performance. Allison received excellent classical voice training at Carnegie Mellon University (BFA: 2017), the College-Conservatory of Music CCM (MM: 2017), and the University of British Columbia, where she is currently pursuing a DMA in Opera, and has completed all but the dissertation. Allison creates captivating interpretations by uniting ease of vocal facility, magnetic stage presence with what audiences have described as her "striking ability to draw you in so that you can't look away." Inspired by the works of female composers, Allison thoughtfully designs programs reflecting the female perspective.
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 enjoys spending time outdoors, often going on lengthy hikes, which she feels parallels how we experience music. On the journey up the mountain are divergent paths, steps, and stones to maneuver. Every traveler carries with them unique stories that guide their journey. But the resulting mountainous peaks view is the beauty we all share, grow from, and take home with us.
GABRIEL LANDSTEDT
Pianist
Gabriel Landstedt has performed at festivals and competitions throughout North America and Europe. In 2024, Gabriel will compete in two international competitions: Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona, Spain, and as a finalist in The Shean Competition in Edmonton, Alberta. He was invited to make his international piano solo concert debut at the renowned Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Italy this coming May. Recent competition prizes include Grand Prize and Best Performance of the Commissioned Piece at the 2023 Architecture of Music Competition, Grand Prize in the 2022 Royal Sound Music Competition, and runner-up in the 2020 UBC Concerto Competition. As a youth he was awarded numerous prizes in his home state of New Mexico, including First Prize in the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition, after which he made his orchestra debut with the New Mexico Philharmonic at the age of sixteen. Festival appearances include the Chautauqua Piano Program, Art of the Piano, Eastern Music Festival, New Mexico Chamber Music Festival, the John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, and Southwest Piano Festival in USA, Klavierfestival Lindlar in Germany, Salzburg International Summer Academy in Austria, and Val Tidone and Brindisi Piano Camps in Italy.
Landstedt has performed solo and collaborative recitals throughout the United States, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Landstedt’s appearances included online performances at the Art of Piano a series of 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 next year. An avid collaborative pianist, Landstedt has played with choirs and ensembles in New Mexico, New York, and Vancouver, Canada. In 2021 he established the vocal-piano ensemble Keyprano Duo with soprano Allison Landstedt (Anderson).
Landstedt began studying piano with his mother at age five. He graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Music degree and Second Major in German from the University of New Mexico, where he studied under Falko Steinbach and was the collaborative pianist for the UNM Wind Symphony and UNM Symphony Orchestra. He has made additional studies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in Germany, where he studied under Markus Bellheim and Silke-Thora Matthies, as well as the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Arkady Aronov. In 2020 he graduated with his Master of Music degree at the University of British Columbia, where he was as a student of Mark Anderson. Landstedt is now pursuing his DMA degree at UBC as a recipient of the university’s premier Four Year Doctoral Fellowship.
