Robert Keeley

Rob Keeley studied with Oliver Knussen at the Royal College of Music, Magdalen College Oxford under Bernard Rose, and later with Robert Saxton. In 1988 he studied at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome with Franco Donatoni, and at the Tanglewood Summer Music School, where he was the Benjamin Britten Fellow in Composition, working with Oliver Knussen and Hans Werner Henze. Before joining King’s in 1993 Rob was a freelance pianist and repetiteur, working for Opera Factory, Almeida Opera and Garsington Opera. He has also played with the London Sinfonietta and Music Projects/London, and now gives frequent solo recitals covering a wide range of repertoire.

Rob has premiered works by, among others, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Finnissy, Geoffry Poole, Jonathan Cole, Richard Emsley and Gordon Crosse. He has given lecture recitals in 20th-century piano music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and seminars on his own music at UC Berkeley and the University of Oregon, Eugene.<br /> <br /> His works have been performed by, among others: BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Lontano, Premiere Ensemble, Ensemble Bash, pianists Martin Roscoe, Ian Pace  and Colin Stone, recorder player John Turner, guitarists Jonathan Leathwood and Fabio Zanon, Fretwork and Composers' Ensemble .

Composer; pianist; contemporary American and Italian music.