Personnel Bio

MU1 Allison Landstedt
In January 2023, Musician First Class Allison J. Landstedt joined the U.S. Coast Guard Band as its soprano soloist, becoming only the fourth singer to hold the position in the Band’s history.

She performs as a featured soloist and concert host with the Band and its small ensembles at official functions, state dinners and receptions, ceremonies, sporting events, and public concerts nationwide, presenting repertoire that spans opera, Broadway, and American Patriotic music. Since joining the Band, she has performed in 18 states at historic venues including Yankee Stadium, Arlington National Cemetery, the National Building Museum, the Cannon Center, and the Lied Center, with solo performances also featured on PBS NewsHour.

A native of Houston, Texas, she began training in music, dance, and acting at age six at the Humphrey School of Music and later joined the Houston Grand Opera High School Voice Studio at age seventeen. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017 and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2019. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Opera at the University of British Columbia in 2025, where her research on body language in song recital has been cited by scholars in nineteen countries. She also trained at the Collaborative Piano Institute and CCM’s Opera Bootcamp. Her teachers include Prof. J. Patrick Raftery, Dr. Gwen Coleman, Prof. Daniel Teadt, and Dr. Jason Lester.

She is a dedicated and lively voice instructor. Her private students have been accepted to leading summer programs, universities, and honor ensembles across the U.S. and Canada including Interlochen, Theatre Under the Stars, the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas at Austin, Connecticut All-State Chorus, and Texas All-State Choir.

She won the 2013 Best Leading Actress in a Musical award for the state of Texas, continuing to the Broadway stage to compete in The Jimmy Awards, a televised national competition. She was four times awarded Best Actress in the 2013 Texas UIL One-Act-Play Competition and was named a winner of the Honorable Mention All-star cast. For operatic singing, she was a finalist in the Kristin Lewis Foundation Vocal Competition (2018) and the Patricia Corbett Opera Competition (2019).

Outside of the Band, she performs with her husband, pianist Dr. Gabriel Landstedt, as the voice–piano chamber ensemble Keyprano Duo.