Andrea Keller

Andrea Keller is an Australian musician and composer.[1] She won three ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with Thirteen Sketches, Mikrokosmos and Footprints and was nominated in 2013 for the album Family Portraits.[2]

Andrea Keller
Born1973
OriginAustralia

Biography

Born of Czech parents in 1973, Andrea Keller grew up in Sydney, Australia.

Convinced from a young age that she would be a musician, she studied piano, flute and saxophone at the Sydney Conservatorium High School. Inspired by her older brother, she penned her first compositions at the age of 10, and received her A-mus-a with distinction on piano at age 14. It was around this time that she was introduced to jazz music and the art of improvisation.

Continuing to explore classical, jazz and original musics throughout her teenage years, her musical path became more defined when she moved to Melbourne in 1993 to attend the Victorian College of the Arts.

Since 1996 Keller has been an active educator in Melbourne's tertiary jazz & improvisation departments, including the Faculty of the VCA and MCM University of Melbourne, Monash University and Melbourne Polytechnic (formerly NMIT).[3]

Discography

Albums
Title Details
Thirteen Sketches
(as The Andrea Keller Quintet)
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Newmarket Music (NEW3081.2)
  • Format: CD
Mikrokosmos
(with The Bartok Project)
  • Released: March 2002[4]
  • Label: ABC
  • Format: digital download
Angels and Rascals
(as The Andrea Keller Quartet)
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: ABC Jazz (9828385)
  • Format: CD
Live at the Edge
(with Tamara Murphy)
  • Released: August 2006[5]
  • Label: ABC
  • Format: digital download
  • Note: Live album
Little Claps
(as Andrea Keller Quartet)
  • Released: August 2007[6]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
Footprints: The Wayne Shorter Project
  • Released: November 2007[7]
  • Label: ABC
  • Format: digital download
Hush Collection: A Castle for All
  • Released: February 2008[8]
  • Label: Hush Music Foundation
  • Format: digital download
Galumphing Round the Nation
(as Andrea Keller Quartet)
  • Released: June 2010[9]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
Three Lanes
(with Genevieve Lacey & Joe Talia)
  • Released: May 2012[10]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
Wave Rider
(as Andrea Keller Quartet)
  • Released: 20 November 2013[11]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
Family Portraits
  • Released: November 2013[12]
  • Label: Jazzhead ‎(HEAD188)
  • Format: CD, digital download
Andrea Keller Quartet Greatest Hits
(as Andrea Keller Quartet)
  • Released: April 2016[13]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Greatest hits album
The Komeda Project
(with Miroslav Bukovsky)
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Andrea Keller ‎(AK004)
  • Format: CD, digital download
Still Night: Music in Poetry
  • Released: November 2017[14]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
Five Below Live
  • Released: July 2018[15]
  • Label: Andrea Keller
  • Format: digital download
  • Note: Live album
Transients Volume 1
  • Released: May 2019[16]
  • Label: Andrea Keller ‎(AK005)
  • Format: CD, digital download
Transients Volume 2
  • Released: November 2019[17]
  • Label: Andrea Keller ‎(AK006)
  • Format: CD, digital download

Awards and Nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.[18]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2002 Thirteen Sketches ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Won
2003 Mikrokosmos ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Won
2005 Angels and Rascals (as Amanda Keller Quartet) ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated
2007 Little Claps (as Amanda Keller Quartet) ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated
2008 Footprints ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Won
2013 Portraits (as Amanda Keller Family) ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated
2014 Wave Rider (with Quartet with Strings) ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated
2019 Transients Vol. 1 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album Nominated

Music Victoria Awards

The Music Victoria Awards, are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2005. (awards 2005-2012 are unknown).[19][20]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2013 Family Portraits Best Jazz Album Nominated
2014 Wave Rider (with Quartet with Strings) Best Jazz Album Nominated
2019 Transients Vol. 1 Best Jazz Album Won
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References
  1. Batt-Rawden, Andrew (8 March 2015), "Review: Postcards from Prague (The Song Company)", Limelight Magazine
  2. Paget, Clive (3 October 2013), "Dickson, Hansen, Sheldon and Whitwell to slug it out at ARIAS", Limelight Magazine
  3. "About". andreakellerpiano. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  4. "Mikrokosmos (DD)". Apple Music. March 2002. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  5. "Live at the Edge (DD)". Apple Music. August 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  6. "Little Claps (DD)". Apple Music. August 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  7. "Footprints: The Wayne Shorter Project(DD)". Apple Music. November 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  8. "Hush Collection: A Castle for All (DD)". Apple Music. February 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  9. "Galumphing Round the Nation (DD)". Apple Music. June 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  10. "Three Lanes(DD)". Apple Music. May 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  11. "Wave Rider (DD)". Apple Music. November 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  12. "Family Portraits (DD)". Apple Music. November 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  13. "Greatest Hits, Andrea Keller Quartet". Jazz. April 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  14. "Still Night: Music in Poetry (DD)". Apple Music. November 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  15. "Five Below Live (DD)". Apple Music. July 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  16. "Transients Volume 1 (DD)". Apple Music. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  17. "Transients Volume 2 (DD)". Apple Music. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  18. "Andrea Keller ARIA Award Search". ariaawards. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  19. "Previous Nominess". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  20. "Previous Winners". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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