Neil Kelly : Represented Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Gamut (unaccompanied piano) by Neil Kelly, from the CD Australian piano miniatures |
Artist website: http://www.neilkellymusic.com
Neil Kelly's composition work includes the production of printed scores, public performances, radio broadcasts, commissions, arrangements, soundtracks, operas, publications and recordings. It focuses on large works for string quartet, theatre, choir, electroacoustic and multimedia works. He also has wide experience as a conductor, director, bass player, record producer and musical director. His current output is concentrated of collaboration with the visual arts.
He was lecturer in contemporary music theory and composition at Latrobe University from 1990–2000. His research included a detailed study of Viennese music. He co–founded the art music group Slave Pianos in 1999 (www.slavepianos.org). In 2000, they toured Russia with Krasnyi Quartet. In 2004, their acoustic theatre work, Two Lives in Flux, was premiered in Lithuania. Their large–scale multi–artform work, Dissident Consonances, was presented in Melbourne and Berlin in 2007. He recently completed a work for the New York–based Flux String Quartet. He is currently operating Polka Records, a teaching/project studio producing his own work and recordings by other artists. These include Andrew Byrne Band, John Campbell, Lucie Thorne, Slave Pianos and The Ennio Morricone Experience.
His time is now spent balancing composition activities with recording, teaching and playing guitar.
Biography provided by the composer — current to August 2007