Welcome to the official web site of Grammy and multiple Emmy Award winning composer Brian Keane.
Multiple Emmy award winning composer, Grammy award winning producer, and noted guitarist Brian Keane has scored literally hundreds of films and television shows, and produced over 150 albums, mostly from his studio in the woods of Connecticut. His music has been hailed critically as "indelible and breathtaking" by the Los Angeles Times, "piercingly beautiful" by The New York Times and "masterful" by Newsweek, and he has been called a "musician's musician" by Downbeat, a "composer's composer" by The Hollywood Reporter, and “one of the most impressive musicians of the decade” by the editor of Billboard magazine.
Among Brian’s many enduring credits are “New York” the epic, multiple Emmy winning Burns documentary series that is among the biggest selling documentaries of all time, “Long Journey Home” which won a Grammy for it’s soundtrack in collaboration with The Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Sinead O’Connor, and others, the classic “Winter’s Solstice” record series for Windham Hill which he produced, and his ground breaking ethnic recordings with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Irish musician Joanie Madden, and many others.
Brian's primary mission for 2025 is to finish producing 3 symphonies that he'd written earlier in his career, but was always too busy to produce.
"A Speck of Time" is a symphony that Brian originally wrote (on paper) in 1984, at the age of 31. It looks at our existance on a tiny blue planet, surrounded by
an unsurvivable, lifeless space, as a miracle of existance. "Speck of Time" wonders if people from around the world all celebrated that miracle in the same music, what would that sound like? The piece was computerized in the late '80s, was revived and orchestrated in 2017. The piece combines orchestra with musicians from around the world, and progressive rock elements. It has begun production as a recording this year, with musicians contributing from as far away as Armenia and China, as well as some of the finest orchestral players in the world.
The "Middle Eastern Symphony" was composed in 1993 as Brian's success stemming from the Middle Eastern soundtrack "Suleyman the Magnificent" reached a pinnacle, but Brian wanted Omar Faruk Tekbilek to be the signed artist, and Omar has gone on to have a substantial career in Middle Eastern music. The piece combines Middle Eastern instruments and motifs with a Western orchestra to create a mysterious and exciting result. It has also been under production in 2025.
The third symphony Brian is producing this year, "Edge of Discovery", began as the theme for a PBS/NOVA series in 1998 called "A Science Odyssey", which chronicled scientific discoveries of the 20th century. It was originally composed for orchestra and electronic instruments, but was never realized for live orchestra until now.
In other news, Brian's 2024 scores for "Dante: Inferno to Paradise" and the independent feature documentary "Here Lived" tied for 2nd place in the music category at this year's New York Festivals' Film & TV Awards. "Here Lived" won Gold for "Best Feature Documentary". Brian's score for "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life", which was rereleased theatrically in 2024, won Gold for "Best Music". Brian also produced a record for cellist Dan Barrett of French composer Dominique Lemaitre's music, as well as Dan's older brother George Barrett's second album, which is due to be released in October. Brian continues to work on a book of his memoirs, and is still active with the many leases of his catalog by major entertainment companies.
Please enjoy this streaming link (click on image below) to DANTE Inferno to Paradise Part 2: Resurrection, the full soundtrack album, and feel free to share it with your friends!
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