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.
Shortly before Christmas in 2024, German record label Celestial Harmonies released Brian's electronic realization of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Musicalisches Opfer BVW 1079” featuring American Ballet Theater pianist Emily Wong.
Last year’s 4 hour critically acclaimed two part special film, "Dante: Inferno to Paradise" by Ric Burns, with a double soundtrack on Valley Entertainment, and the wonderful film Oliver Sacks: his Own Life, which was rereleased in theaters last year, and also has a soundtrack CD on Valley Entertainment, are both nominated for awards for music, along with the soundtrack to the holocaust film that Brian scored for director Jane Wells called “Here Lived”.
There is talk of more episodes of the multi-part, award winning series, "New York" upcoming as well, and Brian’s music library continues growing, now in its 11th year with thousands of uses on various networks over the past year.
Brian has been working on follow up records for both singer songwriter, George Barrettt, (who’s debut record “Not Alone” is up above 100,000), and his younger brother Dan Barrett, a long time cellist on Brian’s scores, on Dan Barrett’s second modern classical cello release.
Brian will be working in the studio, finishing a couple of ambitious symphonic works for world instruments, electronic instruments, and orchestra this year, among other projects. Brian had his 72nd birthday January 18, 2025.
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!
button below to listen to a Brian Keane music sampler
