Working with leading contemporaries in the Australian jazz scene, the following list captures only part of the immense scope, talent and passion that Keller imbues in her music making.
2010
The Andrea Keller Quartet premier a newly commissioned work ‘Place’ with the Flinders String Quartet at the Four Winds Festival, Bermagui, NSW.
The Andrea Keller Quartet premier newly commissioned works for Octet at the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
2009
The Andrea Keller Quartet undertakes their National Collaborations Tour.
Andrea Keller performs her works with Sydney’s Ten Part Invention.
Andrea Keller’s music is featured at Stonnington Jazz Festival, performed by the Bennetts Lane Big Band.
Andrea Keller performs with the Black Arm Band ‘Dirt Song’.
2008 – current
form duo with Geoff Hughes
2007
performs with the Andrea Keller Quartet at Moers Festival, Germany, Copenhagen
Jazzhouse, Denmark and reunites with Czech colleagues for performances
in Prague, Czech Republic.
2006 - current
duo with Tim Wilson (saxophones). ‘Life that Lingers’ released in 2010.
2006 - 2007
Jamie Oehlers’ ‘Small World Ensemble’
2005 - 2008
member of the Geoff Hughes Collective
2006
performed with the Australian Art Orchestra at the Mt Niseko, Kutchan
Jazz Festival (Japan).
2003 – current
runs the Andrea Keller Quartet (a bass-less ensemble). ‘Angels and
Rascals’ by the Andrea Keller Quartet was released in 2005. ‘Little
Claps’ by the Andrea Keller Quartet was released in 2007. Galumphing Round the Nation – the Collaborations Project’ was released in 2010.
2003 – current
Keller/Murphy/Browne. Trio with Tamara Murphy (bass) and Allan Browne (drums).‘Carried by the Sun’ released July 2006
2003 - 2006
performs with Paul Williamson’s Quartet/Sextet.
2003 – 2006
performs with Kynan Robinson’s ‘En Rusk’.
2003
performances in Scotland and Ireland.
2002
performs throughout the Czech Republic, including jazz clubs in Prague, Cheb and the Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival, as well as Edinburgh, Scotland.
2002 – 2005
runs the Bartok Project. The group performs Keller’s arrangements of Bartok’s ‘Mikrokosmos’. They have performed throughout Melbourne, as well as festivals in Wangaratta, Perth and Sydney. ‘Mikrokosmos’ by Andrea Keller’s Bartok Project was released in 2002.
2001 – current
performs and composes for the Bennetts Lane Big Band.
2000 – 2002
performs with the Barry Duggan Quartet.
2000 – 2003
performs with the Allan Browne Trio.
1999 – 2002
runs the Andrea Keller Quintet which features Eugene Ball – trumpet, Ian Whitehurst – tenor saxophone, Danny Fischer – drums and Matt Clohesy – double bass. ‘Thirteen Sketches’ by the Andrea Keller Quintet is released in 2001.
1999
involved in a project led by Dale Barlow.
1998 – 1999
A member of Brian Brown's ensemble Flight.
1997 – 2003
performs with ‘Hustas-Keller’, a contemporary improvisation duo with arco double bassist Anita Hustas. The duo performed throughout Victoria and festivals in Sydney, Fremantle, Perth and Brisbane. ‘Icedreaming’ by Hustas-Keller was released in 2001.