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, 2015 - Present.
Associate represented artist of the Australian Music Centre, 2011-2015

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

Commissions

  • Yo-Yo, Paddle the Boat, Sibling Blues, commissioned by Canberra Girls Jazz for education and performance in their Girls Jazz program (coordinated by the ANU), 2020

    Numerous works commissioned by Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival (2010 & 2000)

    Meditations on Light for double quartet, 2013. Premiered by the Andrea Keller Quartet and Christina Fuchs’ No Tango Quartet (Germany). Nominated: Art Music Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2013. Nominated: Australian Jazz Bell Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2014.

  • Circuit Breaker commissioned by the Monash Art Ensemble, Monash University, 2021

    Hurry Slowly commissioned and developed through VCASS composer in residence program, 2018

    Hurry Slowly II commissioned by the AAO. Premier at Jazztopad Festival (Poland), 2018

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

    Performances at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival (VIC), London Jazz Festival (UK), podcast/interview on ABC New Waves, 2018

    Duality Part 1 & 2 The Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective, 2016

    Affectations 20-minute suite for prepared Big Band, 2010-2012 Australia Council Fellowship Program. Winner: Art Music Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2012.

    Various new works for improvising octet, commissioned by ANU Canberra, 2010

    Various original works commissioned by Ten Part Invention Sydney, 2009

    Three Portraits of a Simpleton commissioned by Mike Nock for Mike Nock’s BigSmallBand album ‘Live’, 2002

    Empty Boxes large ensemble arrangement commissioned for Hard Core by the Australian Art Orchestra, 2002

  • Home commissioned by and premiered at the Adelaide Festival, with support from the Chamber Landscapes Commissioning Circle, 2019

    Music for Women’s Work - Collection of poetry presented on Poetica (ABC Radio National), 2013

  • Flicker #2, #3, #4, #5 composed as part of the HC Coombs Fellowship ANU, Canberra, 2022

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

    Suite for piano and strings, The Letter String Quartet, 2016

    Place commissioned by Four Winds Festival with support from the Keir Foundation, for improvising quartet and string quartet, 2010. Nominated: Australian Jazz Bell Award for Jazz Work of the Year 2011.

  • Little Fledgling 2 commission by Newmarket Collective for Music: Not Impossible haptic vests, Auslan poetry by Walter Kadiki, voice and ensemble, 2024

    Little Fledgling commission by Newmarket Collective for Music: Not Impossible haptic vests, Auslan poetry by Walter Kadiki, voice and ensemble, 2023

    Sonrise co-written with Deline Briscoe for the album ‘Wawu’, 2018

    Postcards from Prague various works for piano and voices, The Song Company, 2015.

    Arrangements of Janáček, Iva Bittová, Keller, and Moravian folksongs.

    Angels & Rascals 45-minute suite dedicated to Jann Rutherford, commissioned by Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival, 2003. Nominated: ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album 2005.

  • A Castle for All – The Tivoli Suite commissioned by the Royal Children’s Hospital/Hush Foundation with support from the Freedman Foundation, 2008. Tracks also feature on Hush Collection – Volume 14: Live In Concert (2007–2013, recorded by ABC).

  • Other Selves ANAM Set commission for solo violin, 2021

    I Surrender commissioned by Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire, for the album ‘Bower’, for recorder and harp, 2020. Winner: ARIA Best Classical Album 2021

    Flicker #1 commissioned by Solstice Trio, for violin, cello, piano, 2017

    Premiered at Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, concert themed How We Remember.

    Love in Solitude Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, for Ensemble Offspring (flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion & backing track), 2017. Appears on Offspring Bites 2 and The Night with… Live, Volume 2.

    Wish commissioned by Marshall McGuire for 50th year celebration, miniature for solo harp, 2015

    Exquisite Corpse (4-minute section contribution) commissioned by Zephyr string Quartet, 2015

    L.D.D (Light Depth Dark) Zephyr string Quartet, 2014

    Where is Everybody commissioned by Genevieve Lacey & James Crabb Duo for the album ‘Heard This and Thought of You’, for recorder and accordion, 2014

    Perception commissioned by Genevieve Lacey, miniature for recorder, 2013. Premiered at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks address ‘Learning to Listen’

    Pierrot the Clown solo marimba orchestration commissioned by Claire Edwardes for the album ‘Flash: Marimba Miniatures’, 2010

    Schubertiade reimagining commissioned by Seraphim Trio, for violin, cello, piano, 2009

  • The Komeda Project reinterpretation of the music of Krzysztof Komeda with Miroslav Bukovsky and jazz octet, 2014

    Arrangements for The Black Arm Band, 2012 - 2018
    2016 — performances in Wellington (NZ), Gold Coast, USA/Canada tour.
    2015 — performances in Melbourne, Tasmania, Singapore, Taipei, Canada.
    2014 — performances in China.
    2012 — Mamiaith – Mothertongue project

    Footprints: The Wayne Shorter Project, reinterpretations for solo piano and overdubbed piano and nord, 2007. Featured on ABC Jazz 100 – Compilation of Australia’s Favourite Jazz Artists (2020). Winner: ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album 2008.

    Mikrokosmos – Andrea Keller’s Bartók Project reinterpretation of music by Béla Bartók, 2002. Winner: ARIA Best Contemporary Jazz Album 2003. Winner: Australian Jazz Bell Award Best Contemporary Jazz Album 2003.