Dr. Michael Keddy

"You are a wonderful conductor and musician. Your technique is clear, meaningful, and musical. You are engaged in music making and your performance is moving. The students reflect excellent teaching and have developed a deep appreciation for musical excellence!"​

• Malcolm W. Rowell - Director of Bands and Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

 

Civic Orchestra of Victoria Review

 "the sheer quality and confidence - and even coherence - of the performance which Michael Keddy summoned up from the Civic Orchestra of Victoria on Saturday afternoon [George Lloyd, Symphony No. 1]…their fine sound and excellent ensemble, particular at the close [Wagner, Polonia Overture]…For their finale, Keddy and the orchestra gave us a scintillating and colourful account of the last movement of Ginastera's Estancia, with its brilliant and exciting malambo cross-rhythms. An immensely satisfying and rewarding concert, it is commendable that the Civic should continue to be so adventurous in their programming - and deeply gratifying that they should be able to pull it off so successfully." 

• Deryk Barker, Reviewer - Music In Victoria

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Meridiem Wind Orchestra Review

"Michael Keddy directed an excellent performance of some really quite tricky music: the opening movement, based on "Lilliburlero", is not only highly syncopated, but in its central section has the tune going at different speeds in different keys, for example. The whole piece was beautifully played and directed: in the flowing second movement the orchestra produced a quite lovely sound, warm and enveloping; the third movement was enlivened with bubbling flutes and clarinets; the finale, with its frequent tempo changes — very well handled"

• Deryk Barker, Reviewer - Music In Victoria