Education

Professional Highlights

• Karen Keating spent many years studying and working in Austria. While there, she studied with several renowned conductors, including Kurt Prestel, Walter Hagen-Groll, Nicholas Harnoncourt, Gerhard Wimberger, and Bernhard Conz; she also attended a masterclass with Herbert von Karajan. She was the Director of the Robert Schollum Chor Hallein; the accompanist and assistant director of the Salzburger Liedertafel; performed in a twentieth-century vocal ensemble; and sang in opera productions, including Mozart's Idomeno with Werner Hollweg and Carol Vaness.
• Since coming to Shenandoah, she has been choirmaster for several operas, including the premiere of Russell Woollen's The Birthday of the Infanta, which was performed at the Kennedy Center. She has served as music director for the Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers, West Side Story, Hello, Dolly!, Grease (twice), Gigi, The King and I, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Sugar, Brigadoon, Pirates of Penzance, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Guys and Dolls; she has also been music director for academic year productions of H.M.S. Pinafore, Me and My Girl, Kiss Me, Kate, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cabaret, Carnival, The Pajama Game, and Pippin.
• Karen Keating was the mezzo soloist for the Washington Chorus tours of Germany, Austria and France.She is Assistant Organist, Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, Winchester. With fellow Shenandoah facutly member Byron Jones, she recorded an album of cabaret songs, What Have You Done to My Heart, released by Redfont Records. Under her leadership, the Shenandoah Chorus traveled to Roswell, New Mexico, in 2004 to premiere Stephen Melillo's Beyond Courage, a tribute to veterans of the Bataan Death March. In May 2005, she and the Chorus went to Tokyo, Japan to record the work.