Jennifer Keeley, MBA, MT

Thank you for visiting my music studio website and taking the time to learn a little about me and what I can offer potential music students!  As a classically trained pianist, with two college degrees and over 25 years of experience, I LOVE teaching music!  I currently teach intermediate and advanced piano and voice students.

 

I began my lifelong journey in music at the age of four, when I started taking piano lessons with a renowned piano instructor, Mary Jane Lucas, of Michigan City, Indiana.   I earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy at the University of Evansville (1995).  I have given many performances, including the privilege of performing and conducting in England when I studied abroad for a semester. Some of the composers whose music I have performed include: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Brahms, Joplin, Gershwin, Debussy, and Cage, among many others!  I have been the recipient of various awards and scholarships throughout my music career.  I have performed vocally for numerous weddings, funerals, private parties, and corporate functions, but I also thoroughly enjoy accompanying soloists or choirs on the piano or organ.

 

I earned a Master of Business Administration from Bethel College in Mishawaka (2002), a teaching license from Indiana Wesleyan University (2007), a School Administrator's license from Bethel College (2011), and I taught for more than two decades at both private and public schools.  While I am still a licensed public Music Educator, I am now retired from classroom teaching so I can focus on my private music students.  

 

I am currently the President of the South Bend Area Music Teachers Association, the State and Local Chair of the Achievement in Music (AIM) Piano Festival, Board Member of the Elnora Hartman Stickley Music Endowment Fund, and Board Member of Monday Musicale in Michigan City.  I am also a certified Adjudicator for the Indiana State Schools Music Association (ISSMA) festival and a former Adjudicator for the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs.  In 2023, I was the Music Director for "Oliver!" at Footlight Theatre in Michigan City and many other theatrical and music productions throughout my career.  I belong to several professional music organizations:  Music Teachers National Association, Indiana Music Teachers Association, South Bend Area Music Teachers Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota professional music fraternity.   Many of my students have successfully participated in competitions at the local and state level, receiving scholarships and awards, and some have pursued Music Education in college.  

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In my free time, I enjoy flower gardening, baking, reading, and quilting.  I cherish the moments I can spend with my talented and supportive husband, Steve, our four daughters and their spouses, our two lovely grand children, and my beautiful Coton de Tulear pups named Violet and Rosie.