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.
Claire Edwardes & Emily Granger - Magic Sky
Features Cassandra the Strong and Beautiful Columbine composed by Andrea Keller.
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.
Andrea Keller discusses the concept of her commission for the Monash Art Ensemble - Circuit Breaker (2022).
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
Commissions:
Little Fledgling, for ‘Across Silence: The art of music, Auslan and haptics’. Music to accompany the performance of the poem ‘Little Fledgling 2’ by deaf poet Walter Kadiki (2024)
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