Zoë Keating is a Canadian musician and composer.
Classically trained… Read Full Bio ↴Zoë Keating is a Canadian musician and composer.
Classically trained from the age of eight, Keating studied music at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County, New York and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and began working in computer software while moonlighting as a cellist with dance troupes, theatre companies, and rock bands. She combined the two, and developed her now signature style while improvising for late night crowds in her San Francisco warehouse space.
Keating's self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma, which rose to number one on the iTunes Classical and number two on the iTunes Electronica charts, is the direct result of that experimentation. She has since performed her music live on National Public Radio, on television, outdoors in the Nevada desert, in mediaeval churches, in punk clubs, and in mainstream rock venues across North America and Europe.
Keating has worked with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Mark Isham, The Dresden Dolls, Rasputina, DJ Shadow, and Paolo Nutini. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the cello-rock trio Rasputina. Most recently she has been composing music for film and ballet. In 2008 she performed her music live with the Valencia ballet, she composed music for a documentary called Ghostbird about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and performed on Mark Isham's score for The Secret Life of Bees. She is featured on Amanda Palmer's solo release Who Killed Amanda Palmer and supported Palmer on her 2008 European and North American tours.
Classically trained… Read Full Bio ↴Zoë Keating is a Canadian musician and composer.
Classically trained from the age of eight, Keating studied music at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County, New York and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and began working in computer software while moonlighting as a cellist with dance troupes, theatre companies, and rock bands. She combined the two, and developed her now signature style while improvising for late night crowds in her San Francisco warehouse space.
Keating's self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma, which rose to number one on the iTunes Classical and number two on the iTunes Electronica charts, is the direct result of that experimentation. She has since performed her music live on National Public Radio, on television, outdoors in the Nevada desert, in mediaeval churches, in punk clubs, and in mainstream rock venues across North America and Europe.
Keating has worked with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Mark Isham, The Dresden Dolls, Rasputina, DJ Shadow, and Paolo Nutini. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the cello-rock trio Rasputina. Most recently she has been composing music for film and ballet. In 2008 she performed her music live with the Valencia ballet, she composed music for a documentary called Ghostbird about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and performed on Mark Isham's score for The Secret Life of Bees. She is featured on Amanda Palmer's solo release Who Killed Amanda Palmer and supported Palmer on her 2008 European and North American tours.
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Daniel Cifuentes
OMG ZOE You literally made me fly to another place with this, the same way you do with all your other songs.
Paul Larkin
Literally?? 🤣
NatureJunkieHere
There is no way to overrate Zoe Keating. I feel certain that future musicologists will recognize her as one of the genius composers of the 21st Century.
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nice aeggs brau
Bill Klemm
I love how you compose with small elements that come together in layers that weave a larger tapestry. I also love how versatile the cello is an how you use the whole instrument as your palette for color and texture. Always a pleasure to listen to you breathe life into sound.
Chuck Brogan
Love all your music Zoe! Thanks for sharing it with us!
bleuberrys
This is one of my favorite songs! It can always make me smile.
Bits inside by René Rebe
Zoe is one of those artists where the live performances are even better than the studio recordings! ;-)
Kevin Keller
Zoe Keating is a leader in modern composing. The melding of technology and instrument is phenomenal!! Beautiful....
Nin Guém
Nothing like a bottle of wine and your music to make me feel good on theses dark times.