Andrew Keeling is a classical composer.[1] With an early background in catherdral choir and rock bands, his composing career began in the 1980s.[2]
He has written for:
Some of Keeling's music has appeared on CD releases distributed by the Discipline Global Mobile, Burning Shed, and Riverrun record labels, as well as being performed and broadcast worldwide.
Since the late 1960s, Keeling has been a keen advocate of the music of Robert Fripp and King Crimson. In 1999, Keeling was invited by Robert Fripp to arrange new versions of the King Crimson's music, as well as some of Fripp's solo guitar Soundscapes, orchestrating The Wine of Silence with Fripp in 2012. Some of the resulting pieces have been performed, broadcast and recorded by the Metropole Orkest (The Wine of Silence 2012). Andrew Keeling is also co-author with Mark Graham of A Musical Guide to King Crimson, a series of books, the first being "Musical Guide to In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson" published in August 2009. Musical Guides to Larks' Tongues in Aspic and In the Wake Poseidon follow with plans for further books in the series. He has also been a part-time lecturer at the University of Liverpool and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and performs in an improvisation duo with former King Crimson violinist David Cross. Their album English Sun was released in 2009.