About Me
Andrew Keeling is a composer whose vocation only became fully apparent when he was 31. He has said, "I began to think that the musical and psychological pursuits of the first half of my life were insufficient to sustain into the second half of life. Composing presented itself as a solution to this dilemma." He had previously been a cathedral chorister, played as a multi-instrumentalist in various rock bands, and performed as a flute recitalist. Meeting such composers as Sir John Tavener, John Casken, Nicola LeFanu and Howard Skempton, and the result of embarking on a Jungian analysis in 1987, paved the way for his subsequent creative activities.Since the late 1980's he has written music for the likes of Opus 20 (Meditatio [1989]), Het Trio (Distant Skies, Mountains and Shadows [1992]), The Hilliard Ensemble (O Ignis Spiritus [1993]), The Apollo Saxophone Quartet (Wrestling with Angels [1993]), the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Upon the Edge of Autumn [1994]), Evelyn Glennie (Concerto Nekyia [1995]), The Goldberg Ensemble (Hidden Streams [1995]), Fretwork (Afterwords [1999]), Virelai (With How Sad Steps, O Moon [2000]), Jacob Heringman (Black Sun 2001]), Gothic Voices (Powered by Joy [2002]), Matthew Wadsworth (MirAre [2002]), Catherine King and Jacob Heringman (Almost There... [2002]), and many others. Some of this music has appeared on CD releases by the Discipline Global Mobile , Burning Shed and Riverrun record labels, as well as being performed and broadcast worldwide.He has recently commented that, "Both compositionally and analytically, I wanted to reconcile certain features of the rock music I knew and liked with the things I'd assimilated from contemporary classical music." Since the late 1960's Keeling has been a keen advocate of the music of King Crimson, and in 1999 was invited to arrange new versions of the group's music, as well as the solo guitar Soundscapes, by Robert Fripp himself. Some of these have been performed, broadcast and recorded by The Metropole Orchestra of Amsterdam with plans for a CD release. Andrew Keeling is also co-author, together with Mark Graham, of A Musical Guide to King Crimson, a series of interactive CDs to be published from late 2002. He is a part-time lecturer at the University of Liverpool and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Now available:
Piano Quartet 'Reclaiming Eros' - score (PRB Productions)
Forthcoming: Scarlet Letters for solo guitar (PRB Productions) - score
String Quartet 'Present' (PRB Productions) - score
Andrew Keeling - Individuation and Creative Evolution. An essay by Peter Davison
" Blue Dawn " is now available from Burning Shed in both deluxe cdr and download formats, it includes performances by Matthew Wadsworth, Steven Wray, 3-Orm and TripleSec. The title track is the 30 minute plus cycle of seven pieces for solo piano which includes the full version of Forget-me-Not. Other pieces are Distant Skies, Mountains and Shadows for flute/alto flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet and piano; MirAre for theorbo and Petit Requiem pour Basil for narrator, flute and piano.
July Walk to Low Pike
Wedden No. 1
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