Richard Kittelstad – Ricky Keys
-ABOUT MYSELF-
For those of you who don’t know me personally, I have been playing piano since I was 8 years old. My first passion was golf and I dedicated my childhood to it with a focused intent of becoming a tour professional. After playing for the University of South Florida Bulls Mens golf team from 2008-2012, I graduated with a Bachelors in Music Studies. Shortly after I completed my golf tenure, I felt I had a greater passion for music and during this transition phase, I started to do gigs performing around the Tampa Bay areas at private golf clubs before I graduated. My initial intention was to exchange my services of piano performance at golf clubs for the priviledge to play free golf after college, as I realized I would need a place to continue to practice to pursue professional golf. Now I perform full time, yet still have the time to play golf in the day.
However upon graduation, I decided to focus on piano after successfully performing at private clubs. This gave me a nice means to live comfortably, and during this time I created many piano covers on Youtube. Over time I have been able to record about 1700 piano covers, and make a living doing what I love online. Today the majority of my gigs are at golf and social clubs, high end restaurants, hotels, and various event venues in Tampa, FL.
I perform most nights through the week in Tampa Bay primarily, and focus on growing my online presence in the Youtube Music world. If you would like to see me in Tampa Bay, I have my schedule in the tabs to the left. My passions are still the same…. Piano, Golf and Travel. My dream is to be able to continuously do all, whether on the road or at home.
My focus is to continue to create original recordings, compositions and transcriptions online for my subscribers, while continuing a career in performing, not just in person, but online. My other major major passion…Traveling the American West…has a blog to follow below. There you can read some of my adventures and get to know me on a deeper level. These are some my favorite life experiences and some incredible adventures I have had incorporating travel and music in my life.
Listen to my piano VIDEOS
Learn to play my covers via TUTORIALS
Purchase my compositions and arrangements by SHEET MUSIC or AUDIO
Discover whats new with my LOGOED MERCHANDISE
Read my blogs on MUSIC and TRAVEL
…..it’s all here! Please free to message me if you have any questions in the contact tab of the page.
Be sure to check out my newest Youtube Channel… FourPlayPiano. My performance partner (SweetCaroline) and I take pop songs, arranged many times by myself, and record them together on one piano.
Also be sure to check out my Travel Page below for a close up look at my Annual Adventures, traveling, hiking, camping, golfing and performing around the World.
TRAVEL BLOG – The Celestine Journey
TRAVEL INSTAGRAM – The Celestine Journey
Thanks for visiting my page, and I appreciate any support. Please keep updated by Subscribing to my Youtube Channel and Social Networks for the latest content, and if you have business inquiries please contact me at rickittmusic@gmail.com.
-Ricky ‘Keys’ Kittelstad
2018-01-30