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Melbourne composer, violinist, and educator, Andrea Keeble (b. 1969) finds her compositions take form in the spaces where performer and teacher coalesce in the pursuit of self-knowledge.

Since joining the gypsy-style quintet, Cosmo Cosmolino, as a composer-performer in 1998, she has composed for ensembles she is a member of, including jazz sextet Collider. Andrea is the Artistic Director of Keeble Collective (formerly Ad Hoc Collective) founded in 2004 to bring together musicians, composers and educators dedicated to performing, creating and teaching new and improvised music. She independently released two albums of original compositions, "Teeter" (2011), and "Congratulations" (2017) as reviewed in AUSTA 'Stringendo' magazine and JAZZ 'N' MORE (Switzerland). Two of her compositions are currently in the AMEB Viola syllabus.

Andrea briefly co-founded a rock band, Stroll, whose original music was finalist in the 'International Song-writing Competition' (USA). This piece later became 'Pi Quartet'. The UK dance company DV8 danced to 'Small Streets, Big Life' while on tour for the Sydney Olympics, a piece originally composed for The Big West Festival community theatre production. Andrea was commissioned by the Festival of Slow Music (Ballarat) to compose "Suite Actuality" - a seven movement work for String Quartet, Voice (Freya Josephine Hollick) and Visuals (by Dotahn Capsi) presented at the 2013 and 2015 festivals.

Andrea's recordings are included on Collider "Words" (2013), Silo String Quartet "After the Dark" CD (2008), Stroll "Carnival of Lost Souls" CD (2006), and on Cosmo Cosmolino's "Bel Air" (2011), Aria nominated "Nektar" CD (2005) and "Streetsweeper" CD (2000). Her music has featured on Damian Heffernan's independent dance film "A Gentle Spirit" (2013), Pradeep Laxminarayana's Indian Bollywood short film "The Blind Violinist" and performed by the Bayside Chamber Orchestra and Castlemaine Chamber Players. She has worked with The Salamanca Theatre Company (Hobart) as composer and her compositions have been performed in numerous concert series and festivals including the Sydney Festival, The Southern Grampians Promenade of Sacred Music Festival and Merrepin Arts Festival (NT).

Andrea has taken many composition workshops in Melbourne, and regional schools and orchestras, as well as indigenous communities in collaboration with The Black Arm Band and The Fred Hollows Foundation. She has worked as a lecturer in string composition at Melbourne Polytechnic and continues to lecture at The University of Melbourne (Master in Performance Teaching), perform regularly as a guest violinist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and is an AMEB examiner.

Andrea Keeble — current to February 2026