"Again and Again", from "Three Love Songs" for Voice and Chamber Orchestra by Keane Southard.

Reading by Jazmine Saunders-soprano, and the Eastman Philharmonia conducted by Austin Chanu on May 7, 2021.

"Again And Again" for Voice And Chamber Orchestra

"A Red, Red Rose", from "Three Love Songs" for Voice and Chamber Orchestra by Keane Southard.

Reading by Jazmine Saunders-soprano, and the Eastman Philharmonia conducted by Austin Chanu on May 7, 2021.

"A Red, Red Rose" for Voice And Chamber Orchestra

"Out of the Depths" for Concert Band by Keane Southard.

Reading by the Eastman Wind Orchestra conducted by David Baker on May 7, 2021.

"Out Of The Depths" for Concert Band

"A Meditation on Mercy" for Concert Band by Keane Southard.

Reading by the Eastman Wind Orchestra conducted by Lindsay Bronnenkant on May 7, 2021.

"A Meditation On Mercy" for Concert Band

"My Love It Should Be Silent", from "Three Love Songs" for Voice and Chamber Orchestra by Keane Southard.

Reading by Jazmine Saunders-soprano, and the Eastman Philharmonia conducted by Austin Chanu on May 7, 2021.

"My Love It Should Be Silent" For Voice And Chamber Orchestra

"The Dove in the Ash Grove" for Wind Ensemble by Keane Southard.

2nd prize winner of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Competition.  The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Composition Competition was made possible by the Scott G. Smedinghoff fund, created in memory of Scott G. Smedinghoff GR’17.

Recorded by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble directed by Brian Messier in November 2021.

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"The Dove in The Ash Grove" for Wind Ensemble

Dedicated to my friends at Orquestrando a Vida in Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil. Recording from an open reading session by Awesöme Orchestra Collective conducted by David Möschler, August 3, 2014.  Performance materials available at http://keanesouthard.instantencore.com/web/page.aspx?title=No+Interior+do+Rio+de+Janeiro 

No Interior Do Rio De Janeiro for Orchestra

Hellas: A Suite of Ancient Greece by John Foulds for Concert Band.  Arranged from the original double string orchestra, harp, and percussion version (1932) by Keane Southard.  Premiered by the New Mexico State University Symphonic Band, Ingrid Larragoity-Martin-conductor, in April 2015.

Foulds - Hellas - IV - Song Of Argive Helen

Um Ano no Brasil (A Year in Brazil) for Flute and Strings.

Premiered by Marcelo Bomfim-flute, Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, Sammy Fuks-conductor on July 16, 2016 at Paróquia da Ressurreição Church, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Um Ano no Brasil (Rio performance): I-Rio de Janeiro (Part 1)

Live recording of the Simpson College Women's Chorale from April 9, 2017; Dennis Hendrickson, conductor. Performance materials available at http://keanesouthard.instantencore.com/web/page.aspx?title=%22A+Blessing+of+Discomfort%22+for+SSA+Choir

Smith Chapel, 4/9/17

A Blessing of Discomfort for SSA Choir

"Dona Nobis Pacem" for SATB Choir by Keane Southard.

Winner of the 2019 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition.

Reading by the Eastman Chorale, Joseph Taff-conductor, in spring 2019.

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"Dona Nobis Pacem" for SATB Choir

"Breathing Winter's Air" for Flute, Violin, Alto Saxophone, Horn, Bassoon, and Electric Guitar, by Keane Southard.

Inspired by Harold Weston's painting "Three Trees, Winter" which hangs in the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY).  

Premiered March 28, 2019 by students at the Eastman School of Music conducted by the composer, at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery.

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"Breathing Winter's Air" for Sextet

Described as “a hugely prolific musician with a wide variety of skill sets” (newmusicbuff.com), Keane Southard (b. 1987) is a composer and pianist who believes deeply in the power of music to change how people think, feel, and act, and that it can be a catalyst for positive change in the world.  His music has been described as “a terrific discovery” (Bandworld Magazine) and “highly-professional and well-orchestrated” (Portland Press Herald) and, taken as a whole, his works reflect his many diverse musical tastes, from medieval chant to 70's rock, Bach to the Blues, and 19th century romanticism to Latin dance forms.  Keane has been a recipient of many awards including the Lee Goldstein Composition Award from Baldwin-Wallace College, the Cecil Effinger Composition Award and George Lynn Prize from The University of Colorado-Boulder, First Prize in the Longfellow Chorus International Composers Cantata Competition, the Charles B. Olson Young Composer Award, and the Ars Nova Singers Colorado Composers Competition.  He has received commissions from the Colorado State Music Teachers Association, the Northeastern State University Wind Ensemble (OK), the Arrowhead Union High School Wind Ensemble (WI), the Sounds of Stow Chorus and Orchestra, pianist Christopher Janwong McKiggan, saxophonist Allison Dromgold Adams, and cellist Christine Thomas Tsen.  His works have been performed across the US and internationally in Germany, Brazil, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Romania, and Australia.  He has been awarded residency fellowships at Playa and the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center and summer fellowships at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and Northeastern University Fusion Arts Exchange.  In the summer of 2016, Keane hiked the New England portion of the Appalachian Trail, a distance of more than 700 miles, which inspired the creation of his first symphony, commissioned by a consortium of orchestras throughout New England with premieres in the 2017-18 season.  In 2016, Waltzing Dervish: The Wind Music of Keane Southard, recorded by the Northeastern State University Wind Ensemble, was released and hailed as a “major debut disc” (newmusicbuff.com).  Keane earned his M.M. in composition at the University of Colorado-Boulder where he served as a graduate assistant in music theory.  He graduated Summa Cum Laude with his B.M. from the Conservatory at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH, where he double majored in music composition and music theory with a minor in English literature.  His primary composition teachers include Kenneth Girard, Loris Chobanian, Daniel Kellogg, Jeffrey Nytch, Carter Pann, Richard Toensing, and Allen Shawn, plus additional studies with Samuel Adler, Derek Bermel, João Guilherme Ripper, Brian Robison, and Hillary Zipper.  An avid student of language and culture, Keane speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, and German in addition to English.

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