Composing

In addition to composing for her own projects, Andrea has been commissioned by a wide variety of musicians, ensembles and organisations to compose and arrange.

She is a represented artist of the Australian Music Centre.

Andrea’s Scores and Lead Sheets are available on her Bandcamp page.

Latest release:

Monash Art Ensemble - Circuit Breaker

Commissioned by the Monash Art Ensemble, Andrea's composition is a response to the feelings and experiences that accompanied the 2020/2021 Pandemic induced lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia.

The work begins by setting the space with Opening. The second movement Still – encapsulates the sense of stillness that lockdown brought with it. This is followed by Cog which captures feelings of displacement and the uncertainty of shifting territories. The Interlude is characterised by an impassioned melody that possesses feelings of frustration and anguish in response to the situation. There is a return to stillness with Languishing which features improvised interludes prompted by the words “quiet despair”. The conclusion comes with Systems Over-Ride a plea to re-evaluate past ways of living and being.

Genevieve Lacey and Marshall McGuire - Bower

Features I Surrender composed by Andrea Keller
Bower - Winner of the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album 2021

Move 50, Fifty years of Move Records

Features Deep Blue composed by Andrea Keller

Deline Briscoe - Wawu

Features Sonrise composed by Andrea Keller

Ensemble Offspring - Offspring Bites 2

As the recipient of the Merlyn Myer Composing Women's Commission Andrea composed the track Love in Solitude, featuring on Offspring 2

Ensemble Offspring - The Night with… Live, Volume 2

Also features Love in Solitude composed by Andrea Keller

Genevieve Lacey and James Crabb - Heard This and Thought of You

Features Where Is Everybody? composed by Andrea Keller

Claire Edwardes - Flash: Marimba Miniatures

Features Pierrot the Clown composed by Andrea Keller

Hush 8 - A Castle for All - The Tivoli Suite

Album composed by Andrea Keller

Hush Collection - Volume 14 Live In Concert

Also features music from A Castle for All, composed by Andrea Keller

 

Mike Nock's BigSmallBand - Live

Features the 15 minute work Three Portraits of a Simpleton composed by Andrea Keller

 
 
 
 

Commissions:

Little Fledgling, for ‘Across Silence: The art of music, Auslan and haptics’. Music to accompany the performance of the poem ‘Little Fledgling’ by deaf poet Walter Kadiki (2023)

Flicker #2, Flicker #3, Flicker #4, Flicker #5, Polar Bird, Carefree Daze - composed as part of the HC Coombs Fellowship (2022)

Other Selves, for solo violin as part of the ANAM set - commissioned by Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), 2021

Circuit Breaker- commissioned by Monash University, for Monash Art, 2020 - 2021

Yo-Yo, Paddle the Boat & Sibling Blues for Girls Jazz student Program, commissioned by Australian National University, 2020

I Surrender for the album Bower, commissioned by Genevieve Lacey and Marshall McGuire, 2020
Winner Aria Best Classical Album 2021

Compassionately Yours… and Home, commissioned by the Adelaide Festival with support from the Chamber Landscapes Commissioning Circle, 2019

Sonrise for the album Wawu, commissioned by and co-written with Deline Briscoe, 2018

Bent Heart (suite in four parts: Lonely Vigil, Treasured Angels, Broken Doll and Cry Heart but Never Break), for the album Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space - commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra, 2018

Hurry Slowly - commissioned by the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, 2018

Hurry Slowly II - commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra and performed at Jazztopad Festival, Wroclaw, Poland 2018

Love in Solitude - for the album Offspring Bites 2, (also appears on the album The Night with… Live, Volume 2), composed for Ensemble Offspring, commissioned by the Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, 2017

Flicker #1 - commissioned by the Solstice Trio, for their concert themed How we Remember, premiered at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, 2017

Duality Part I & II - commissioned by The Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective, 2016

Arrangements of original compositions - commissioned by the Letter String Quartet, 2016

Arrangements - commissioned by the Black Arm Band, for performances in Wellington (NZ), the Gold Coast and tour of USA/Canada, 2016

Wish, miniature for solo harp - commissioned for Marshall McGuire’s 50th year celebration, 2015

4-min section as contribution to Exquisite Corpse - commissioned by the Zephyr Quartet, 2015

Arrangements - commissioned by the Black Arm Band, for performances in Melbourne, Tasmania, Singapore, Taipei and Canada, 2015

Arrangements for Postcards from Prague, music by Janacek, Iva Bittova, Keller and Moravian Folksongs - commissioned by the Song Company, 2015

Andrea Keller with Miroslav Bukovsky, reinterpretation of the music of Krzysztof Komeda for the album The Komeda Project, 11 tracks, 2014

Where Is Everybody? for the album Heard This and Thought of You- commissioned by Genevieve Lacey and James Crabb, 2015

L.D.D (Light, Depth, Dark)for string quartet - commissioned by the Zephyr String Quartet, 2014

Arrangements - commissioned by the Black Arm Band, for performances in China, 2014

Music for Women’s Work, a collection of poetry presented on Poetica ABC Radio National - commissioned by the ABC, 2013

Perception, miniature for solo recorder - commissioned by Genevieve Lacey, premiered at the Peggy Granville-Hicks address Learning to Listen, 2013

Meditations on Light for collaboration between the Andrea Keller Quartet and the Christina Fuchs’ No Tango Quartet (Germany), 2013
Nominated for the Art Music Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2013
Nominated for the Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2014

Arrangements - commissioned by the Black Arm Band, for Mamiaith - Mothertongue project, 2012

Affectations, a 20-minute suite in four parts for prepared big band - composed as part of a two-year Australia Council Fellowship Program, 2012 
Winner of the Art Music Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2012

Place, a 60-minute work for the Andrea Keller Quartet with string quartet - commissioned for the Four Winds Festival, with the support of the Keir Foundation, 2010
Nominated for the Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2011

Not Me, Nor I - commissioned by the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival for premiere by the Festival Sextet, 2010

60 minutes of music for the Andrea Keller Quartet, with members of the ANU Jazz Faculty - commissioned by the Australian National University Jazz Faculty, 2010

Pierrot the Clown for the album Flash: Marimba Miniatures – reorchestration commissioned by Claire Edwardes, 2010

Arrangement/Reimagination - commissioned by the Seraphim Trio as part of their Schubertiade Concert series, 2009

Arrangements of original compositions - commissioned by Ten Part Invention, 2009

Andrea Keller album Hush 8 - A Castle for All- commissioned by the Royal Children’s Hospital, with a generous donation from the Freedman Foundation, 12 tracks, 2008
Tracks from A Castle for All also feature on Hush Collection - Volume 14 Live In Concert - Compilation, recorded live by the ABC, 2007-2013

Reinterpretations of the music of Wayne Shorter for solo piano album Footprints - The Wayne Shorter Project, 2007
Winner of the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, 2008
Footprints also features on ABC Jazz 100 - Compilation of Australia’s Favourite Jazz Artists, 2020.

Andrea Keller for the Andrea Keller Quartet album Angels and Rascals, a 45-minute suite, dedicated to the late Jann Rutherford – commissioned by the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival, 2003
Nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album 2005

Three Portraits of a Simpleton, 15-minute work – commissioned by Mike Nock for the Mike Nock’s BigSmallBand album Live, 2003

Reinterpretation of the music of Bela Bártok for the album Mikrokosmos - Andrea Keller’s Bartok Project, 17 tracks, 2002
Winner of the ARIA Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album 2003
Winner of the Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Award for Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album 2003

Reorchestration of Empty Boxes - commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra for Hard Core, 2002

Numerous works for octet to open the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival - commissioned by the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative, 2000