Nancy Keppel - Achievements & Portfolio                                 
 
 
   

 

  

 
   

Pianist - Composer - Arranger - Performer

 
 
Summery of this page: Nancy Keppel's Portfolio, Nancy Keppel's Spontaneous Compositions,
Nancy Keppel's Danceable Jazz, Nancy Keppel's Compositions for the Video: Piano at
The Shedd Aquarium - Pianoquarium - Producer John LeGear,
 
Click at any of these subjects above and their Bookmarks will get you there.
 
Born and raised in Michigan’s “Upper Peninsula”. Nancy began studying the piano at age three.
When she reached twelve years, she was accepted by Mrs. Nellie Hastings for advanced
classical training. During the eight years she spent with Mrs. Hastings, Nancy, at age seventeen,
was taken to Chicago to be introduced to and play for Dame Myra Hesse. After hearing her play,
Dame Hess predicted a long musical career with emphasis on composition.
In 1973, Nancy moved to Chicago and began working as a pianist, singer, composer and
vocal  coach. She also has co-written four musicals which were performedfor select audiences,
produced and arranged studio recording for several artists.  Over the years, Nancy has played
engagements at many of Chicago’s top hotels and clubs, performing for many celebrities including:
   Sammy Davis Jr.  
   Tony Bennet
   Steve Martin,
   Robert Redford
 
just to mention a few.
She also shared social time with Jazz “greats” George Sheering, Marion Mc Partland and
many others that visited the musical community.
Spontaneous Composition is an Art Form that Nancy has had the ability to perform for
many years. Nancy performed a Spontaneous Concert in 1985 which was recorded and
produced on CD and audio cassette.
She also developed a new style of Jazz. Her "Unique Jazzy Sound & Arrangements" gives her
audience the opportunity to dance to her music. Nancy produced a CD: "Danceable Jazz"
Nancy continues to perform primarily in Chicago occasionally taking engagements throughout
the USA.
Nancy's Spontaneous Compositions
This Concert was performed by Nancy Barber Keppel in 1985. None of these Compositions were
pre-written.
The Spontaneous Compositions came from the Audience and the Moment in Time.
 
                                                                                             Click the CD Images to play the Misic
                                
 
 
Nancy's "Unique Jazzy Sound & Arrangements"

 

 

Danceable Jazz CD

 
NEWS: SINCE 5-23-2009 Nancy has her own website > still under contruction - but GO AHEAD and enjoy.
 
Piano at The Shedd Aquarium - Pianoquarium
 
A nicely choreographed compilation of sea animals from Chicago's Shedd Aquarium synchronized
to an original medley performed by pianist Nancy Keppel.

                Find this Video at:    Pianoquarium on Yahoo! Video
 
When visiting Chicago, plan to see both, the Aquarium and Nancy, if you get the chance.
Video produced by John LeGear.
 
 
Think About It

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Joy is not in Things;It is in Us.
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Richard Wagner   
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Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. ...All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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To write great music, the musician must make his life a great song. ... Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Music is A higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music is A higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
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Richard Wagner   

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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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The aim and final reason of all music should be nothing else but the Glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
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Johan Sebastian Bach 

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Plato
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