Andrew Keeling
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Andrew Keeling is a classical composer. Since the late 1980s 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 Keeling's music has appeared on CD releases distributed by the Discipline Global Mobile, Burning Shed and Riverrun record labels, as well as being performed and broadcast worldwide.
Since the late 1960s, Keeling has been a keen advocate of the music of Robert Fripp and King Crimson. In 1999, Keeling was invited by Robert Fripp to arrange new versions of the King Crimson's music, as well as some of Fripp's solo guitar Soundscapes. Some of the resulting pieces have been performed, broadcast and recorded by The Metropole Orchestra of Amsterdam and there are 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.
