Brian Keane

Brian Keane

Brian Keane in his home studio
Background information
Born (1953-01-18) January 18, 1953
Years active 1970s–present
Website briankeanemusic.com

Brian Keane (born 1953) is an American composer, music producer, musician and guitarist. He has composed the music for hundreds of films and television shows and produced over a hundred record albums. Keane is known as one of the most prominent composers of his era in scoring television documentaries, and a leading producer of world music.

Collectively, Keane has scored hundreds of award-winning documentaries and films, including seventeen Emmy winners for best documentary or series (among sixty five nominations), nine Peabody Award-winning films, five Oscar nominated films, and one Academy Award-winning film.[1][2] Keane is the winner of four Emmy Awards, and has received twenty Emmy nominations for his music.

Keane's music has been performed by symphony orchestras throughout the world. He has also scored several feature films and dramatic television shows, including Copper, produced by Academy Award winner Barry Levinson and Emmy-winning producer Tom Fontana, which debuted in 2012 as the highest rated television series in the history of BBC America.[3] In 2013 Brian Keane was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for Copper in the category of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.[4]

Keane's notable documentary scoring credits include Ric Burns' Emmy and Peabody Award-winning films New York: A Documentary Film, The Donner Party, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol,[5] Thomas Lennon's Peabody Award-winning and Oscar-nominated film The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Lennon and Ruby Yang's Academy Award-winning The Blood of Yingzhou District, ABC News' contemporary documentary series Turning Point, and multiple award-winning episodes for the long running PBS history series American Experience, among many others.

In the sports world, Keane was the music behind HBO Sports for more than a decade when under Ross Greenburg, the network reigned as the dominant award-winning network for sports documentaries. Keane has also scored a number of Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning sports documentaries for ESPN, CBS, and others. In 2001, he was the first composer in Sports Emmy Awards history to sweep all of the nominations for music in a single year.[6]

As a record producer, Keane has produced over three dozen Billboard charting albums with over 150 commercial albums in total.[7] He is particularly known for producing ethnic and new-age music. Keane's many credits as a producer include Winter Solstice for Windham Hill Records,[8] the Grammy Award-winning Long Journey Home: The Irish in America soundtrack album for RCA Records[9] and his influential work with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek.

Biography

Early life

Brian Keane was born January 18, 1954 in Philadelphia. His mother Winifred Keane is an avant garde composer, and his dad George F. Keane, while being a successful business man, was also an Irish tenor. Brian's brother Geoffrey Keane and his sister Sheila are both musical as well. Brian grew up in Westport, Connecticut and played his first professional job as a rock n’ roll musician when he was still a sixth grader. He studied privately with the late jazz pianist and Juilliard educator John Mehegan, and then with Czech composer Karel Husa at both Ithaca College, and Cornell where he went to school.[10]

Professional career

Guitarist

Brian Keane and Larry Coryell in concert 1983

Brian began his professional career as a guitarist playing in clubs and as a sideman, and eventually became a world-renowned jazz guitarist, performing with many Jazz greats of the 1970s and 1980s, including touring worldwide and recording for several years in a guitar duo with Larry Coryell, and eventually becoming a Blue Note recording artist.[11] Brian played on hundreds of records, commercials and film scores as a guitarist beginning in the 1970s and has performed or recorded as a guitarist with artists as diverse as disco singer Vicki Sue Robinson, entertainer Eartha Kitt, the rock group Wishbone Ash, jazz bassist Eddie Gómez, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra, flamenco guitarist Paco Delucia, blues artist Taj Mahal, cajun icon Buckwheat Zydeco, classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, jazz saxophonist Marion Meadows, folk legend Pete Seeger, singers Linda Ronstadt, Bobby McFerrin, The Clancy Brothers, John Sebastian, and many others.

Composer and Record Producer

1980s

In the late seventies, still making his living primarily as a guitarist, Brian met film directors Jim Burroughs and Suzanne Bauman, while working in his childhood friend Gary Scovil's recording studio in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1981, Brian scored his first documentary for them, Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary in 1982. That early success led to several more scoring opportunities for Brian in the eighties, an era where few documentaries were scored with original music. Keane's prominence as a composer rose quickly, even as he continued to tour as a guitarist in a duo with Larry Coryell, and eventually as a solo artist with the release of his first solo CD Snowfalls in 1986. In 1987, Keane's score to the documentary Suleyman the Magnificent, was discovered by German publisher Eckart Rahn who heard the documentary on television, and decided to release a soundtrack CD of Brian's score on his Celestial Harmonies label. The record, among the first to harmonize traditional Middle Eastern music, would form the first of a series of enduring, and culturally important collaborations with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and the success of that CD would eventually lead to Brian becoming a prominent producer of ethnic and New Age recordings, both for Celestial Harmonies and for a variety of major record labels.

In 1989, Brian Keane scored the music to Chimps: So Like Us, the HBO Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary that helped introduce the public to naturalist Jane Goodall. The film was made by Oscar-winning directors Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman whose New York offices happened to be in the same building, one floor down, from the acclaimed film maker Ric Burns. After producing the classic Civil War mini series with his brother Ken Burns in the late eighties, the highest rated television documentary series in history, Ric went on to work with Brian on the 1990 award-winning documentary Coney Island. Brian has scored every one of Ric Burns' award-winning films ever since, and their ongoing collaborations span well over two decades.

1990s

The early 1990s saw Brian's composing career rise dramatically in stature with the multiple-award-winning General Motors' Playwright's Theatre series for Nederlander television, which ran for four years on A&E, the Emmy- and Columbia Dupont-winning miniseries The Great Depression and The War on Poverty for the prominent film maker Henry Hampton, the highly influential Ric Burns film The Donner Party (documentary) which won a Peabody in 1992, and the Emmy- and Peabody-winning film The Battle of the Bulge, for Oscar-winning director Thomas Lennon. Brian scored many award-winning films for the PBS history series American Experience, working with producer Judy Crichton, directors Carl Charlson, Ben Loeterman, Mark Zwonitzer, and others. Brian also scored several award-winning specials for National Geographic working with director Oren Jacoby, and again with the Simon and Goodman picture company. In addition, Brian was hired by ABC News in the early nineties to be the composer for the first prime time, hour-long, news documentary series Turning Point. Working with producers Rudy Bednar and Betsy West, Turning Point would become the first of several news documentary series Brian scored for ABC News in the 1990s, and the musical approach developed for ABC News has been adopted in many subsequent news documentary series. Because of demand, Brian began hiring orchestrators, many of whom would go on to become successful in their own right like Michael Bacon, Richard Fiocca, Don Grady, Michael Terry, and others.

Brian Keane Blue Note Records Press Photo 1992

Keane's prominence as a record producer was also rising with the release of the critically acclaimed, and commercially successful early nineties albums. Tibetan Bells: The Empty Mirror for Celestial, Firedance, and Beyond the Sky with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, John Boswell's Festival of the Heart, Celtic Twilight for Hearts of Space, and Song Of The Irish Whistle featuring Irish whistler Joanie Madden, among others. In 1992, Brian produced the Grammy nominated comedy album You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You featuring the comic, turned United States senator, Al Franken. Also in 1992, following the success of Brian's production of jazz saxophonist Nelson Rangell's CD for GRP records, working with executive producers Dave Wilkes and Danny Weiss, Brian was signed by legendary music executive Bruce Lundvall, and became a Blue Note recording artist with his debut release of Common Planet. However, despite the successful debut of Common Planet, Brian resigned from his career as a recording artist. By that point, Brian was the father of young children and already in demand as a record producer and composer. He would let go of his career as a touring guitarist from that point on, but continue to record as a guitarist on records and soundtracks.

By the mid 1990s Brian Keane was firmly established as a leading composer in documentary film, and a prominent producer of ethnic and New Age music simultaneously. The later 1990s brought Keane widespread success as a record producer with over three dozen Billboard charting albums for Windham Hill, RCA, Sony, Hearts of Space, and other record labels. Brian produced several successful Windham Hill records including the billboard chart topping CD's Carols of Christmas, Thanksgiving, and several CD's in the hugely popular Winter's Solstice, and Summer Solstice series. Brian also signed Sean Harkness (a former guitar student) to a deal with Windham Hill. Brian also produced several critically acclaimed ethnic records including: Via Jo, and Afrika Wassa for Senegalese artist Vieux Diop, and Este Es Mi Mariachi featuring Linda Ronstadt and Mariachi Cobre. In addition, Brian became well established in producing prominent Irish artists including several RCA records for the female Irish traditional group Cherish The Ladies, Riverdance fiddling sensation Eileen Ivers, and others. In 1998, Brian collaborated with Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney composing and producing the music for the Disney and PBS joint production Long Journey Home: The Irish in America. The RCA soundtrack, featuring the Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and others, won the Grammy Award for best traditional folk album in 1998.

Brian Keane with Walter Cronkite and Jim Mckay 2003

In 1997, Brian started working with Hollywood agent Bruce Teitell, and scored several feature films including The Vernon Johns Story: Road to Freedom with James Earl Jones, Stephen King's Night Flier for New Line Cinema, and Illtown for director Nick Gomez. Brian's continued scoring documentaries as well, with the award-winning Burns mini series and Shanachie double CD soundtrack The Way West, Thomas Lennon's Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning The Battle over Citizen Kane, the award-winning PBS Nova series A Science Odyssey, and more award-winning American Experience documentaries for its new executive producer Margaret Drain. American Experience won Prime Time Emmy awards for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series in both 1998 and 1999. Also in 1999, Brian scored the multiple-Emmy-winning Ric Burns series New York: a documentary film, which after the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, became among the biggest selling documentary series of its time.

Brian Keane and director Ric Burns working on The Way West 1995

In 1996, Brian was asked to score Spirit of the Games, a documentary on the subject of the Olympics by the Emmy-winning director George Roy for HBO Sports. It began a long relationship with HBO Sports and a very successful run of sports documentaries including the Peabody-winning films Babe Ruth, Ali Frazier: One Nation Divisible, Dare to Compete, and Fists of Freedom, among others, all scored in the late nineties as part of a new series of documentaries entitled Sports of the 20th Century. Brian also scored HBO's Inside the NFL during that period.

2000s

By the year 2000, Napster and other downloading entities were beginning to take over record distribution, and several long established record companies went out of business. In the space of just a year, the record producing business that Brian Keane had enjoyed and accumulated over the previous decade and a half collapsed, along with most record companies. Brian was still among the most widely recognized composers for documentary film however, and by then, he had extended his notoriety to the world of sports. In addition to continuing to score Emmy-winning documentaries like Ric Burns Ansel Adams, Bill Moyers' Becoming American: The Chinese Experience collaborating with Chinese musician George Gao, and several more award-winning American Experience episodes for its new executive producer Mark Samels, Keane composed the music to many classic Emmy- and Peabody-winning HBO sports documentaries in the early 2000s including Do You Believe in Miracles, Legendary Nights, Picture Perfect, The Curse of the Bambino, and Nine Innings From Ground Zero. Brian worked with producer Ross Greenburg, directors George Roy, Joe Lavine, and other Emmy-winning sports documentarians, and he composed a number of Emmy-nominated and Peabody-winning films for ESPN as well such as Kentucky Bluegrass Basketball, The Complete Angler, You Write Better Than You Play, and David Halberstam's Teammates for directors Fritz Mitchell, Johnson McKelvey, Neil Leifer, and others. Brian also scored several documentary specials for CBS Sports including Pistol Pete, for which he won a music Emmy for his collaborative score with Cajun musician Buckwheat Zydeco.

Brian Keane at the 2004 Emmy Awards with his son Dylan

In 2001, Brian Keane became the first, and only composer in the history of the Emmys to sweep all the Emmy nominations for music composition in a single year,[6] and he won Emmys in 2002, 2003, and 2004 for music composition as well. In 2005, Brian had three more Emmy nominations for music composition, and scored all five Emmy nominated films for best sports documentary that year, including the best documentary Emmy-winning Rhythm In The Rope for ESPN.[12] In 2006, Brian scored Thomas Lennon and Ruby Yang's The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Academy Award for best documentary: short subject. In addition, Brian scored the Emmy- and Peabody-winning Ric Burns films Andy Warhol for American Masters, and Eugene O'Neil featuring Christopher Plummer Al Pacino, Liam Neeson, and others. In 2007, Brian received Emmy nominations for his scores to HBO's Barbaro, Mickey Mantle and Johnson McKelvey's Kabul Girls Club. In addition to all this, Brian Keane's compositions were being used in several major feature films, and being adapted for symphony orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, The Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra to name a few.

Brian enjoyed a nonstop series of successes in the entertainment business for over two decades, but by 2008, the era of reality TV, digital media, and multi channel cable television was coming of age. The high end documentary was falling out of favor due to the expense of making them. A 2007 writer's strike crippled the film and television industry. Budgets for live musicians were becoming a thing of the past, and the abundance of new cable channels meant smaller budgets and lower standards. Emmy judging was no longer monitored, and although Brian continued to score Emmy nominated films such as Ric Burns' Into the Deep for American Experience, HBO's Joe Louis: A Hero Betrayed, and The Running Rebels of UNLV, as well as the 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary The Warrior of Quigang for Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon, Brian decided not to work as much, even considering retirement, preferring to have a period of time that was more balanced with his private life. That period would only last a few years.

Brian Keane at the 2005 Emmy Awards with his son Wylder
2010s

In 2012, after scoring Death and the Civil War, which won the Erik Barnauw Award and received an Emmy nomination for outstanding non-fiction program, Keane got a call from Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson to score the dramatic television series Copper, about an Irish cop set in 1864 New York. The Levinson Fontana produced series debuted as the highest rated series in the history of BBC America, and garnered Keane another Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Music. Copper was renewed for a second season in 2013, with the soundtrack, Copper: Original Soundtrack, released via Valley Entertainment. Other notable projects include the unusual festival film "Enquiring Minds" about the history of the National Enquirer, "Debt of Honor", an important film about America's wounded veterans in 2014, a commission to compose music for the 75th anniversary of the American Ballet Theatre in 2015, and more Emmy Award-winning shows for ESPN, including Fritz Mitchell's "It's Time", which garnered Brian his 20th Emmy nomination for music.

Personal life

Brian Keane's studio is located in his first home in Monroe, Connecticut which he bought in 1985, and converted into a recording studio in 1993. Brian lived in Newtown, Connecticut from 1995 to 2010 and commuted to his first house in Monroe to work. Brian was married to Susan St. Louis Keane in 1987, though they lived together since 1983. They had their first son Wylder Keane in 1987, and second son Dylan Keane in 1988. In addition, Brian has a step son, Chris Laskowski, born to Susan in 1971. All three are musical, though they have other careers. Brian and Susan were divorced amicably in 2010. Although Brian toured throughout the world in his early career as a guitarist, most of Brian's composing career has taken place at his studio in the woods of Connecticut, near friends that he has known for over fifty years in some cases. In an era where most television and film production took place in New York or Los Angeles, Brian was able to develop his substantial career simply through the notoriety and emotional power of his music.

Award-Winning / Nominated Films Scored By Brian Keane

Award Description Title Status Year
Academy Award Best Documentary Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (PBS) Nomination 1982
Columbia Dupont Award Journalism Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (PBS) Winner 1982
Golden Hugo Award Chicago Film Festival Cuba In the Shadow Of Doubt (PBS) Winner 1983
Cine Golden Eagle Best Documentary Costa Rica: Child in the Wind (PBS) Winner 1984
First Prize San Francisco Film Festival Women of Summer (PBS) Winner 1985
First Prize London Film Festival Suleyman the Magnificent (PBS) Winner 1986
Golden Athena Athens Film Festival Light of the Gods (PBS) Winner 1987
Cine Golden Eagle Documentary Merchants and Masterpieces (PBS) Winner 1988
Ace Award - Pool Hall (A&E) Nomination 1989
Ace Award - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (A&E) Nomination 1989
Emmy Award Best Documentary Chimps: So Like Us (HBO) Winner 1990
Academy Award Best Documentary: Short Subject Chimps: So Like Us (HBO) Nomination 1990
Ace Award - Clara (A&E) Nomination 1990
Ace Award - Last Act is a Solo (A&E) Winner 1990
Columbia Dupont Award Best Cultural/Artistic Programming Coney Island (PBS) Winner 1991
Ace Award - Avenue Z Afternoon (A&E) Nomination 1991
Erik Barnauw Award Outstanding Historical Documentary Coney Island (PBS) Winner 1992
Ace Award - Paralax Gardens (A&E) Nomination 1992
Peabody Award - The Donner Party (PBS) Winner 1992
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming The Great Depression (PBS) Winner 1993
Emmy Award Best Historical Programming The Great Depression (PBS) Winner 1993
Emmy Award Best scientific Programming National Geographic Explorer (TBS) Winner 1994
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming America's War On Poverty (PBS) Winner 1994
Columbia Dupont Award Best News Documentary Series Turning Point (ABC) Winner 1995
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Mini Series The Way West (PBS) Winner 1995
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming Battle of the Bulge (PBS) Winner 1995
Emmy Award Best Historical Programming Battle of the Bulge (PBS) Nomination 1995
Peadbody Award - Battle of the Bulge (PBS) Winner 1995
Columbia Dupont Award Best Scientific Programming Buckminster Fuller (PBS) Winner 1996
Emmy Award Best Scientific Programming Buckminster Fuller (PBS) Nomination 1996
Emmy Award Best Cultural or Artistic Programming The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) Winner 1996
Academy Award Best Documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) Nomination 1996
Columbia Dupont Award Best Cultural or Artistic Programming The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) Winner 1996
Peabody Award - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) Winner 1996
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming Murder of the Century (PBS) Winner 1996
Ace Award - Spirit of the Games (HBO) Winner 1996
Columbia Dupont Award Best Documentary Series Turning Point (ABC) Winner 1996
Erik Barnauw Award Outstanding Historical Documentary America's War on Poverty (PBS) Winner 1996
Ace Award - Inside The NFL (HBO) Winner 1997
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming New York Underground (PBS) Winner 1997
Fangoria Awards - Stephen King's Night Flier (New Line) Winner 1998
Ace Awards - Inside The NFL (HBO) Winner 1998
Emmy Award Best Historical Programming Long Journey Home (Disney/PBS) Nomination 1998
Columbia Dupont Award Best Scientific Series A Science Odyssey (PBS) Winner 1998
Sundance Film Festival Jury Award Illtown (Shooting Gallery) Winner 1998
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Babe Ruth (HBO) Nomination 1998
Peabody Award - Babe Ruth (HBO) Winner 1998
Emmy Award Outstanding non-fiction series American Experience (PBS) Winner 1998
Peabody Award - Dare To Compete (HBO) Winner 1999
Peabody Awards - Fists of Freedom (HBO) Winner 1999
Emmy Award Outstanding non-fiction series American Experience (PBS) Winner 1999
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Fists of Freedom (HBO) Winner 1999
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Bill Russell (HBO) Nomination 2000
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary When It Was A Game (HBO) Winner 2000
Peadbody Award - Ali/Frazier (HBO) Winner 2000
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Ali/Frazier (HBO) nomination 2000
Emmy Award Outstanding Achievement in Non - fiction Programming New York: A Documentary Film (PBS) Winner 2000
Emmy Award Best Documentary Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) Winner 2001
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) Nomination 2001
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Pistol Pete (CBS) Winner 2001
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Shot Heard 'Round The World (HBO) Nomination 2001
Columbia Dupont Award Best Historical Programming New York: A Documentary Film (PBS) Winner 2002
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Picture Perfect (HBO) Winner 2002
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary The Bear (CBS) Nomination 2002
Emmy Award Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming Ansel Adams (PBS) Winner 2002
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Life Behind the Lens (ESPN) Nomination 2003
Peadbody Award - The Complete Angler (ESPN) Winner 2003
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best sports Documentary Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best sports Documentary The Teammates (ESPN) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best Music Composition The Teammates (ESPN) Nomination 2003
Emmy Best Music and Sound New York: The Center of the World (PBS) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best Historical Programming:Long Form New York: The Center of the World (PBS) Winner 2003
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best Edited Sports Series Legendary Nights (HBO) Winner 2003
Emmy Award Best Documentary Curse of the Bambino (HBO) Winner 2003
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Curse of the Bambino (HBO) Winner 2003
Emmy Award Best sports Documentary Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) Nomination 2003
Emmy Award Best Sports Entertainment Program On the Record (HBO) Winner 2004
Emmy Award Best Documentary Mini Series NYPD 24/7 (ABC) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Documentary Hitler's Pawn (HBO) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Hitler's Pawn (HBO) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Sports Illustrated 50 Years (ESPN) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Nine Inning From Ground Zero (HBO) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Nine Innings From Ground Zero (HBO) Winner 2004
Emmy Award Best Non Fiction Mini Series Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (PBS) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Historical programming: Long Form Becoming American : Gold Mountain Dreams (PBS) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Historical programming: Long Form Becoming American : Between Two Worlds (PBS) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Historical programming: Long Form Becoming American : No Turning Back (PBS) Nomination 2004
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Mickey Mantle (HBO) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Mickey Mantle (HBO) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary The Perfect Upset (HBO) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Music Composition You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Dare To Dream (HBO) Nomination 2005
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) Winner 2005
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) Nomination 2005
Academy Award Best Documentary: Short Subject Blood of Yingzhou District (HBO) Winner 2006
Emmy Award Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming Eugene O'Neill (PBS) Winner 2006
IDA Award Best Series The Supreme Court (PBS) Winner 2006
Peabody Award - Andy Warhol (PBS) Winner 2006
Emmy Award Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming Andy Warhol (PBS) Winner 2006
Cine Golden Eagle Best Music Composition America's Lost Landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie (PBS) Winner 2006
Cine Golden Eagle Best Documentary America's Lost Landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie (PBS) Winner 2006
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Barbaro (HBO) Nomination 2007
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Kabul Girls Club (ESPN) Nomination 2007
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary Wait Till Next Year (HBO) Nomination 2007
Emmy Award Best Documentary Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (HBO) Nomination 2008
Emmy Award Best Non Fiction Program Into the Deep (PBS) Nomination 2010
Academy Award Best Documentary - Short Subject The Warrior of Qiugang (Theatrical) Nomination 2011
Emmy Award Best Documentary Running Rebels Of UNLV Nomination 2012
Erik Barnauw Award Outstanding Historical Documentary Death and the Civil War (PBS) Winner 2013
Emmy Award Best Documentary Death and the Civil War (PBS) Nomination 2013
Emmy Award Best Music Composition Copper - Main Titles (BBC America) Nomination 2013
Emmy Award Best Music Composition It's Time (SEC /ESPN) Nomination 2015
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary It's Time (SEC /ESPN) Nomination 2015
Emmy Award Best Sports Documentary 30 For 30 (ESPN) Winner 2015

Emmy Awards (Composer)

Award Type Status Work Year Role
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Babe Ruth (HBO) 1998 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Bill Russell (HBO) 2000 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) 2001 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Winner Pistol Pete (CBS) 2001 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Shot Heard 'Round The World (HBO) 2001 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Winner Picture Perfect (HBO) 2002 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) 2003 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated The Teammates (ESPN) 2003 Composer
Emmy, Best Music and Sound Nominated New York The Center of the World (PBS) 2003 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) 2003 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Winner Curse of the Bambino (HBO) 2003 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Hitler's Pawn (HBO) 2004 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Winner Nine Innings From Ground Zero (HBO) 2004 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) 2005 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) 2005 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Mickey Mantle (HBO) 2005 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Girl's Club of Kabul (ESPN) 2007 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Barbaro (HBO) 2007 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated Copper - Main Titles (BBC America) 2013 Composer
Emmy, Best Music Composition Nominated It's Time (SEC /ESPN) 2013 Composer

Grammy Awards(Music Producer)

Award Type Status Work Year Role
Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album Nominated Fire Dance (Celestial Harmonies) 1990 Composer/Producer
Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album Nominated Beyond The Sky (Celestial Harmonies) 1992 Composer/Producer
Grammy Awards, Best Comedy Album Nominated "You're Good Enough..." (BMG /Bantam Audio) 1992 Composer/Producer
Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album Winner Long Journey Home Soundtrack (RCA) 1998 Composer/Producer

Soundtrack Releases

Year Title Label Notes
1987 "Suleyman The Magnificent" Celestial Harmonies Billboard Charting
1992 "You're Good Enough..." BMG /Bantam Audio Grammy Nominee
1995 The Way West Shanachie Indie Award
1998 Long Journey Home: The Irish In America RCA Grammy Winner, Billboard Charting
1998 Stephen Kings: "The Night Flier" RCA Fangoria Award
1999 New York RCA Billboard Charting
2002 Ansel Adams Green Linnet Billboard Charting
2005 The War That Made America Valley Entertainment
2006 Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film Valley Entertainment
2009 Kelebek Celestial Harmonies
2011 Into The Deep Valley Entertainment
2012 Death And The Civil War Valley Entertainment
2013 Copper: Original Soundtrack Valley Entertainment

Select Discography (Music Producer)

Year Title Record Label Notes Artists
1982 At The Airport WEA - Larry Coryell, Brian Keane
1983 Just Like Being Born Flying Fish - Larry Coryell, Brian Keane
1986 Snowfalls Flying Fish Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts Brian Keane
1988 Bolero Evidence - Larry Coryell, Brian Keane
1989 Tibetan Bells 3: The Empty Mirror Celestial Harmonies Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings
1990 Fire Dance Celestial Harmonies Grammy Nominated, Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek
1991 Yamantaka Celestial Harmonies - Henry Wolff, Mickey Hart
1991 Nelson Rangell GRP Billboard Top 20 Contemporary Jazz Charts Nelson Rangell
1992 Mariachi Cobre Celestial Harmonies Top 20 Billboard World Charts Mariachi Cobre
1992 Beyond The Sky Celestial Harmonies Grammy Nominated, Echoes "Record Of The Year", Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek
1992 Common Planet Blue Note Billboard Top 20 Contemporary Jazz Charts Brian Keane
1992 Festival Of The Heart Hearts of Space Records Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts John Boswell
1993 Count Me In Hearts of Space Records Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts John Boswell
1993 Khenany Celestial Harmonies - Khenany
1994 Whirling Celestial Harmonies Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts Omar Faruk Tekbilek
1994 Celtic Twilight Hearts of Space Records Billboard's "New Age Album Of The Year", #1 Billboard New Age Charts Various
1995 VIa Jo Triloka/Polygram #1 On World Music Charts In Europe Vieux Diop
1995 Este Es Mi Mariachi Celestial Harmonies /Kuckuck Top 20 Billboard World Charts Linda Ronstadt, Mariachi Cobre
1995 Song Of The Irish Whistle Hearts O' Space Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Joanie Madden
1995 Celtic Twilight 2 Hearts O' Space Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Nightnoise, Bill Douglas, John Doan, Alasdair Fraser & Paul Machlis, Kevin Braheny & Tim Clark, Steve McDonald, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Loreena McKennitt, Talitha MacKenzie
1996 Closer To Far Away Windham Hill Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts Douglass Spotted Eagle
1996 Mystical Garden Celestial Harmonies Top 20 Billboard World Charts Omar Faruk Tekbilek
1996 Carols Of Christmas Windham Hill/BMG Billboard #1 On New Age Charts George Winston, Michael Hedges, Steve Morse, David Darling, Ray Lynch, Richard Stoltzman, Marion Meadows, Jim Brickman, Manuel Barrueco
1997 Summer Solstice Windham Hill/BMG Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts For 4 Months George Winston, Michael Hedges, William Ackerman, Liz Story, Keola Beamer, Sean Harkness
1997 Celtic Twilight 4: Celtic Planet Hearts O' Space Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Davy Spillane, Bill Douglas, Carlos Núñez, John Doan, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Anúna, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh
1997 Winter Solstice VI Windham Hill/BMG Billboard #1 New Age Charts George Winston, Michael Hedges
1997 Crescent Moon Celestial Harmonies - Omar Faruk Tekbilek
1997 Conversations with God Windham Hill Billboard #1 New Age Charts Ray Lynch, Gabrielle Roth and The Mirror, Jim Brickman, David Arkenstone, Yanni, Shadowfax, Patrick O'Hearn, Mark Isham
1998 Long Journey Home Unisphere/RCA Victor/BMG Grammy Award Winner: Best Folk / Traditional Album. Billboard Top 10 World Music Charts Various, The Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, Mary Black, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Vince Gill,
1998 Threads Of Time RCA Top 20 Billboard World Charts Cherish the Ladies
1998 The Renaissance Album Windham Hill/BMG - Various, Nancy Wilson, Ann Wilson, The Baltimore Consort, Angels of Venice, John Doan
1998 Summer Solstice 2 Windham Hill/BMG Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Buckwheat Zydeco, Taj Mahal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tuck & Patti, Earl Klugh, W.G. Snuffy Walden,
1998 Thanksgiving Windham Hill/BMG Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Paul Winter, George Winston, Carlos Nakai, Paul McCandless, Michael Manring, Philip Aaberg, John Sebastian
1998 Song Of The Irish Whistle 2 Hearts O' Space Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Joanie Madden
1998 Sanctuary Windham Hill Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Jim Brickman, William Ackerman, Tracy Silverman, Michael Hedges, Michael Manring, Liz Story, Alex De Grassi, William Edward Childs, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Metamora
1999 Here There Everywhere Windham Hill Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts W. G. Snuffy Walden, Tuck & Patti, Wayne Johnson, Liz Story, Michael Hedges, George Winston, Doyle Dykes, Angels of Venice
1999 Winter Solstice On Ice Windham Hill Billboard #1 New Age Charts W. G. Snuffy Walden, Peabo Bryson, Mark Snow, Jim Brickman, George Winston, Janis Ian, Michael Hedges, Roberta Flack, Jeffrey Osborne, The Rippingtons, Yani, Mark Isham
1999 Song Of The Hills Shanachie - John Sebastian, Bill Keith, Jay Ungar, Eric Weissberg, Norman Blake, Tony Trischka
1999 Crossing The Bridge Sony Billboard Top 10 On The World Music Charts Eileen Ivers, Al Di Meola, Steve Gadd, Randy Brecker, Bakithi Kumalo, Séamus Egan,
1999 Sundance Summer Solstice Windham Hill/BMG Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts George Winston, Will Ackerman, Jim Brickman, Jay Beckenstein, Angels of Venice, Phil Aaeberg, Paul McCandless, Michael Nanring, David Arkenstone
1999 Celtic Twilight 5 Hearts O' Space Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Bill Douglas, Jeff Danna, John Doan, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Jeff Johnson
1999 At Home RCA Billboard Top 10 World Charts Cherish The Ladies
2000 Afrika Wassa Sony/Triloka Top 20 Billboard World Charts Vieux Diop
2000 The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone RCA Top 20 Billboard World Charts Cherish the Ladies, Pete Seeger, Liam Clancy, Arlo Guthrie

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