The Musician
Music has always been a major love of mine. I started playing piano when I was six years old and took lessons for the next twelve years. I also have a playable knowledge of clarinet, guitar, ukulele, xylophone, and ten-string lyre. As a singer, I took voice lessons throughout high school and for a year in college. I also have a deep love for musical theatre and choir. Telling stories through music is one of my favorite things.
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Besides being classically trained in piano, I took a semester of guitar lessons as well as two years of playing clarinet in band. I learned the xylophone when I was cast as Ed in You Can’t Take it With You. I bought the lyre on a whim during quarantine and underscored a production of Antigone I was in the following year. I had that thing strapped to my back the entire show! I played piano on stage as Kelsi in High School Musical on Stage! and more recently in a production of Ghost Quartet.
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I have always LOVED singing. I was in my first choir in middle school. By my senior year of highschool, my choir teacher probably saw me more often than my actual parents. I was in Pop Singers, an auditioned 20 part ensemble with a focus on jazz music that met before school, as well as Varsity Choir, the second-highest choir at our school. I started taking voice lessons at 15 and I’ve continued to sing throughout college. I’ve sung in a variety of situations from classical choral performances to musicals to live swing dancing music.
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Kelsi Nielson - High School Musical on Stage!