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Encyclopedia > Andrew Keeling

Andrew Keeling is a classical composer. 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 and Riverrun record labels, as well as being performed and broadcast worldwide. A self portrait by Nicholas Hilliard The Hilliard Ensemble is a British male vocal quartet devoted to the authentic performance of early music. ... The BBC Philharmonic is a professional symphony orchestra based in Manchester, United Kingdom. ... Evelyn Glennie on the cover of her greatest hits album. ... Gothic Voices is a United Kingdom based vocal ensemble specialising in repertoire from the 11th to the 15th century. ... Catherine King Catherine Fiona King (born 2 June 1966), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Ballarat, Victoria. ... Discipline Global Mobile is an small independent record company. ... House Tully is one of the major families in George R. R. Martins fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire. ...


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. King Crimson are an influential English musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. ... Royal Northern College of Music The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a conservatoire in Manchester, England. ... This article is becoming very long. ...


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