Brian Keane
| Brian Keane | |
|---|---|
 Brian Keane in his home studio | |
| Background information | |
| Born | January 18, 1953 |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Website | briankeanemusic.com |
Brian Keane (born 1953) is an American composer, music producer, musician and guitarist. He has composed the music for hundreds of films and television shows and produced over a hundred record albums. Keane is known as one of the most prominent composers of his era in scoring television documentaries, and a leading producer of world music.
Collectively, Keane has scored hundreds of award-winning documentaries and films, including seventeen Emmy winners for best documentary or series (among sixty five nominations), nine Peabody Award-winning films, five Oscar nominated films, and one Academy Award-winning film.[1][2] Keane is the winner of four Emmy Awards, and has received twenty Emmy nominations for his music.
Keane's music has been performed by symphony orchestras throughout the world. He has also scored several feature films and dramatic television shows, including Copper, produced by Academy Award winner Barry Levinson and Emmy-winning producer Tom Fontana, which debuted in 2012 as the highest rated television series in the history of BBC America.[3] In 2013 Brian Keane was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for Copper in the category of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.[4]
Keane's notable documentary scoring credits include Ric Burns' Emmy and Peabody Award-winning films New York: A Documentary Film, The Donner Party, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol,[5] Thomas Lennon's Peabody Award-winning and Oscar-nominated film The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Lennon and Ruby Yang's Academy Award-winning The Blood of Yingzhou District, ABC News' contemporary documentary series Turning Point, and multiple award-winning episodes for the long running PBS history series American Experience, among many others.
In the sports world, Keane was the music behind HBO Sports for more than a decade when under Ross Greenburg, the network reigned as the dominant award-winning network for sports documentaries. Keane has also scored a number of Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning sports documentaries for ESPN, CBS, and others. In 2001, he was the first composer in Sports Emmy Awards history to sweep all of the nominations for music in a single year.[6]
As a record producer, Keane has produced over three dozen Billboard charting albums with over 150 commercial albums in total.[7] He is particularly known for producing ethnic and new-age music. Keane's many credits as a producer include Winter Solstice for Windham Hill Records,[8] the Grammy Award-winning Long Journey Home: The Irish in America soundtrack album for RCA Records[9] and his influential work with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek.
Biography
Early life
Brian Keane was born January 18, 1954 in Philadelphia. His mother Winifred Keane is an avant garde composer, and his dad George F. Keane, while being a successful business man, was also an Irish tenor. Brian's brother Geoffrey Keane and his sister Sheila are both musical as well. Brian grew up in Westport, Connecticut and played his first professional job as a rock n’ roll musician when he was still a sixth grader. He studied privately with the late jazz pianist and Juilliard educator John Mehegan, and then with Czech composer Karel Husa at both Ithaca College, and Cornell where he went to school.[10]
Professional career
Guitarist
Brian began his professional career as a guitarist playing in clubs and as a sideman, and eventually became a world-renowned jazz guitarist, performing with many Jazz greats of the 1970s and 1980s, including touring worldwide and recording for several years in a guitar duo with Larry Coryell, and eventually becoming a Blue Note recording artist.[11] Brian played on hundreds of records, commercials and film scores as a guitarist beginning in the 1970s and has performed or recorded as a guitarist with artists as diverse as disco singer Vicki Sue Robinson, entertainer Eartha Kitt, the rock group Wishbone Ash, jazz bassist Eddie Gómez, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra, flamenco guitarist Paco Delucia, blues artist Taj Mahal, cajun icon Buckwheat Zydeco, classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, jazz saxophonist Marion Meadows, folk legend Pete Seeger, singers Linda Ronstadt, Bobby McFerrin, The Clancy Brothers, John Sebastian, and many others.
Composer and Record Producer
1980s
In the late seventies, still making his living primarily as a guitarist, Brian met film directors Jim Burroughs and Suzanne Bauman, while working in his childhood friend Gary Scovil's recording studio in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1981, Brian scored his first documentary for them, Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary in 1982. That early success led to several more scoring opportunities for Brian in the eighties, an era where few documentaries were scored with original music. Keane's prominence as a composer rose quickly, even as he continued to tour as a guitarist in a duo with Larry Coryell, and eventually as a solo artist with the release of his first solo CD Snowfalls in 1986. In 1987, Keane's score to the documentary Suleyman the Magnificent, was discovered by German publisher Eckart Rahn who heard the documentary on television, and decided to release a soundtrack CD of Brian's score on his Celestial Harmonies label. The record, among the first to harmonize traditional Middle Eastern music, would form the first of a series of enduring, and culturally important collaborations with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and the success of that CD would eventually lead to Brian becoming a prominent producer of ethnic and New Age recordings, both for Celestial Harmonies and for a variety of major record labels.
In 1989, Brian Keane scored the music to Chimps: So Like Us, the HBO Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary that helped introduce the public to naturalist Jane Goodall. The film was made by Oscar-winning directors Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman whose New York offices happened to be in the same building, one floor down, from the acclaimed film maker Ric Burns. After producing the classic Civil War mini series with his brother Ken Burns in the late eighties, the highest rated television documentary series in history, Ric went on to work with Brian on the 1990 award-winning documentary Coney Island. Brian has scored every one of Ric Burns' award-winning films ever since, and their ongoing collaborations span well over two decades.
1990s
The early 1990s saw Brian's composing career rise dramatically in stature with the multiple-award-winning General Motors' Playwright's Theatre series for Nederlander television, which ran for four years on A&E, the Emmy- and Columbia Dupont-winning miniseries The Great Depression and The War on Poverty for the prominent film maker Henry Hampton, the highly influential Ric Burns film The Donner Party (documentary) which won a Peabody in 1992, and the Emmy- and Peabody-winning film The Battle of the Bulge, for Oscar-winning director Thomas Lennon. Brian scored many award-winning films for the PBS history series American Experience, working with producer Judy Crichton, directors Carl Charlson, Ben Loeterman, Mark Zwonitzer, and others. Brian also scored several award-winning specials for National Geographic working with director Oren Jacoby, and again with the Simon and Goodman picture company. In addition, Brian was hired by ABC News in the early nineties to be the composer for the first prime time, hour-long, news documentary series Turning Point. Working with producers Rudy Bednar and Betsy West, Turning Point would become the first of several news documentary series Brian scored for ABC News in the 1990s, and the musical approach developed for ABC News has been adopted in many subsequent news documentary series. Because of demand, Brian began hiring orchestrators, many of whom would go on to become successful in their own right like Michael Bacon, Richard Fiocca, Don Grady, Michael Terry, and others.
Keane's prominence as a record producer was also rising with the release of the critically acclaimed, and commercially successful early nineties albums. Tibetan Bells: The Empty Mirror for Celestial, Firedance, and Beyond the Sky with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, John Boswell's Festival of the Heart, Celtic Twilight for Hearts of Space, and Song Of The Irish Whistle featuring Irish whistler Joanie Madden, among others. In 1992, Brian produced the Grammy nominated comedy album You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You featuring the comic, turned United States senator, Al Franken. Also in 1992, following the success of Brian's production of jazz saxophonist Nelson Rangell's CD for GRP records, working with executive producers Dave Wilkes and Danny Weiss, Brian was signed by legendary music executive Bruce Lundvall, and became a Bluenote recording artist with his debut release of Common Planet. However, despite the successful debut of Common Planet, Brian resigned from his career as a recording artist. By that point, Brian was the father of young children and already in demand as a record producer and composer. He would let go of his career as a touring guitarist from that point on, but continue to record as a guitarist on records and soundtracks.
By the mid 1990s Brian Keane was firmly established as a leading composer in documentary film, and a prominent producer of ethnic and New Age music simultaneously. The later 1990s brought Keane widespread success as a record producer with over three dozen Billboard charting albums for Windham Hill, RCA, Sony, Hearts of Space, and other record labels. Brian produced several successful Windham Hill records including the billboard chart topping CD's Carols of Christmas, Thanksgiving, and several CD's in the hugely popular Winter's Solstice, and Summer Solstice series. Brian also signed Sean Harkness (a former guitar student) to a deal with Windham Hill. Brian also produced several critically acclaimed ethnic records including: Via Jo, and Afrika Wassa for Senegalese artist Vieux Diop, and Este Es Mi Mariachi featuring Linda Ronstadt and Mariachi Cobre. In addition, Brian became well established in producing prominent Irish artists including several RCA records for the female Irish traditional group Cherish The Ladies, Riverdance fiddling sensation Eileen Ivers, and others. In 1998, Brian collaborated with Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney composing and producing the music for the Disney and PBS joint production Long Journey Home: The Irish in America. The RCA soundtrack, featuring the Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and others, won the Grammy Award for best traditional folk album in 1998.
In 1997, Brian started working with Hollywood agent Bruce Teitell, and scored several feature films including The Vernon Johns Story: Road to Freedom with James Earl Jones, Stephen King's Night Flier for New Line Cinema, and Illtown for director Nick Gomez. Brian's continued scoring documentaries as well, with the award-winning Burns mini series and Shanachie double CD soundtrack The Way West, Thomas Lennon's Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning The Battle over Citizen Kane, the award-winning PBS Nova series A Science Odyssey, and more award-winning American Experience documentaries for its new executive producer Margaret Drain. American Experience won Prime Time Emmy awards for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series in both 1998 and 1999. Also in 1999, Brian scored the multiple-Emmy-winning Ric Burns series New York: a documentary film, which after the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, became among the biggest selling documentary series of its time.
In 1996, Brian was asked to score Spirit of the Games, a documentary on the subject of the Olympics by the Emmy-winning director George Roy for HBO Sports. It began a long relationship with HBO Sports and a very successful run of sports documentaries including the Peabody-winning films Babe Ruth, Ali Frazier: One Nation Divisible, Dare to Compete, and Fists of Freedom, among others, all scored in the late nineties as part of a new series of documentaries entitled Sports of the 20th Century. Brian also scored HBO's Inside the NFL during that period.
2000s
By the year 2000, Napster and other downloading entities were beginning to take over record distribution, and several long established record companies went out of business. In the space of just a year, the record producing business that Brian Keane had enjoyed and accumulated over the previous decade and a half collapsed, along with most record companies. Brian was still among the most widely recognized composers for documentary film however, and by then, he had extended his notoriety to the world of sports. In addition to continuing to score Emmy-winning documentaries like Ric Burns Ansel Adams, Bill Moyers' Becoming American: The Chinese Experience collaborating with Chinese musician George Gao, and several more award-winning American Experience episodes for its new executive producer Mark Samels, Keane composed the music to many classic Emmy- and Peabody-winning HBO sports documentaries in the early 2000s including Do You Believe in Miracles, Legendary Nights, Picture Perfect, The Curse of the Bambino, and Nine Innings From Ground Zero. Brian worked with producer Ross Greenburg, directors George Roy, Joe Lavine, and other Emmy-winning sports documentarians, and he composed a number of Emmy-nominated and Peabody-winning films for ESPN as well such as Kentucky Bluegrass Basketball, The Complete Angler, You Write Better Than You Play, and David Halberstam;s Teammates for directors Fritz Mitchell, Johnson McKelvey, Neil Leifer, and others. Brian also scored several documentary specials for CBS Sports including Pistol Pete, for which he won a music Emmy for his collaborative score with Cajun musician Buckwheat Zydeco.
In 2001, Brian Keane became the first, and only composer in the history of the Emmys to sweep all the Emmy nominations for music composition in a single year,[6] and he won Emmys in 2002, 2003, and 2004 for music composition as well. In 2005, Brian had three more Emmy nominations for music composition, and scored all five Emmy nominated films for best sports documentary that year, including the best documentary Emmy-winning Rhythm In The Rope for ESPN.[12] In 2006, Brian scored Thomas Lennon and Ruby Yang's The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Academy Award for best documentary: short subject. In addition, Brian scored the Emmy- and Peabody-winning Ric Burns films Andy Warhol for American Masters, and Eugene O'Neil featuring Christopher Plummer Al Pacino, Liam Neeson, and others. In 2007, Brian received Emmy nominations for his scores to HBO's Barbaro, Mickey Mantle and Johnson McKelvey's Kabul Girls Club. In addition to all this, Brian Keane's compositions were being used in several major feature films, and being adapted for symphony orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, The Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra to name a few.
Brian enjoyed a nonstop series of successes in the entertainment business for over two decades, but by 2008, the era of reality TV, digital media, and multi channel cable television was coming of age. The high end documentary was falling out of favor due to the expense of making them. A 2007 writer's strike crippled the film and television industry. Budgets for live musicians were becoming a thing of the past, and the abundance of new cable channels meant smaller budgets and lower standards. Emmy judging was no longer monitored, and although Brian continued to score Emmy nominated films such as Ric Burns' Into the Deep for American Experience, HBO's Joe Louis: A Hero Betrayed, and The Running Rebels of UNLV, as well as the 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary The Warrior of Quigang for Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon, Brian decided not to work as much, even considering retirement, preferring to have a period of time that was more balanced with his private life. That period would only last a few years.
2010s
In 2012, after scoring Death and the Civil War, which won the Erik Barnauw Award and received an Emmy nomination for outstanding non-fiction program, Keane got a call from Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson to score the dramatic television series Copper, about an Irish cop set in 1864 New York. The Levinson Fontana produced series debuted as the highest rated series in the history of BBC America, and garnered Keane another Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Music. Copper was renewed for a second season in 2013, with the soundtrack, Copper: Original Soundtrack, released via Valley Entertainment. Other notable projects include the unusual festival film "Enquiring Minds" about the history of the National Enquirer, "Debt of Honor", an important film about America's wounded veterans in 2014, a commission to compose music for the 75th anniversary of the American Ballet Theatre in 2015, and more Emmy Award-winning shows for ESPN, including Fritz Mitchell's "It's Time", which garnered Brian his 20th Emmy nomination for music.
Personal life
Brian Keane's studio is located in his first home in Monroe, Connecticut which he bought in 1985, and converted into a recording studio in 1993. Brian lived in Newtown, Connecticut from 1995 to 2010 and commuted to his first house in Monroe to work. Brian was married to Susan St. Louis Keane in 1987, though they lived together since 1983. They had their first son Wylder Keane in 1987, and second son Dylan Keane in 1988. In addition, Brian has a step son, Chris Laskowski, born to Susan in 1971. All three are musical, though they have other careers. Brian and Susan were divorced amicably in 2010. Although Brian toured throughout the world in his early career as a guitarist, most of Brian's composing career has taken place at his studio in the woods of Connecticut, near friends that he has known for over fifty years in some cases. In an era where most television and film production took place in New York or Los Angeles, Brian was able to develop his substantial career simply through the notoriety and emotional power of his music.
Award-Winning / Nominated Films Scored By Brian Keane
| Award | Description | Title | Status | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Award | Best Documentary | Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (PBS) | Nomination | 1982 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Journalism | Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (PBS) | Winner | 1982 |
| Golden Hugo Award | Chicago Film Festival | Cuba In the Shadow Of Doubt (PBS) | Winner | 1983 |
| Cine Golden Eagle | Best Documentary | Costa Rica: Child in the Wind (PBS) | Winner | 1984 |
| First Prize | San Francisco Film Festival | Women of Summer (PBS) | Winner | 1985 |
| First Prize | London Film Festival | Suleyman the Magnificent (PBS) | Winner | 1986 |
| Golden Athena | Athens Film Festival | Light of the Gods (PBS) | Winner | 1987 |
| Cine Golden Eagle | Documentary | Merchants and Masterpieces (PBS) | Winner | 1988 |
| Ace Award | - | Pool Hall (A&E) | Nomination | 1989 |
| Ace Award | - | 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (A&E) | Nomination | 1989 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Chimps: So Like Us (HBO) | Winner | 1990 |
| Academy Award | Best Documentary: Short Subject | Chimps: So Like Us (HBO) | Nomination | 1990 |
| Ace Award | - | Clara (A&E) | Nomination | 1990 |
| Ace Award | - | Last Act is a Solo (A&E) | Winner | 1990 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Cultural/Artistic Programming | Coney Island (PBS) | Winner | 1991 |
| Ace Award | - | Avenue Z Afternoon (A&E) | Nomination | 1991 |
| Erik Barnauw Award | Outstanding Historical Documentary | Coney Island (PBS) | Winner | 1992 |
| Ace Award | - | Paralax Gardens (A&E) | Nomination | 1992 |
| Peabody Award | - | The Donner Party (PBS) | Winner | 1992 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | The Great Depression (PBS) | Winner | 1993 |
| Emmy Award | Best Historical Programming | The Great Depression (PBS) | Winner | 1993 |
| Emmy Award | Best scientific Programming | National Geographic Explorer (TBS) | Winner | 1994 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | America's War On Poverty (PBS) | Winner | 1994 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best News Documentary Series | Turning Point (ABC) | Winner | 1995 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Mini Series | The Way West (PBS) | Winner | 1995 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | Battle of the Bulge (PBS) | Winner | 1995 |
| Emmy Award | Best Historical Programming | Battle of the Bulge (PBS) | Nomination | 1995 |
| Peadbody Award | - | Battle of the Bulge (PBS) | Winner | 1995 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Scientific Programming | Buckminster Fuller (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Emmy Award | Best Scientific Programming | Buckminster Fuller (PBS) | Nomination | 1996 |
| Emmy Award | Best Cultural or Artistic Programming | The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Academy Award | Best Documentary | The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) | Nomination | 1996 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Cultural or Artistic Programming | The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Peabody Award | - | The Battle Over Citizen Kane (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | Murder of the Century (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Ace Award | - | Spirit of the Games (HBO) | Winner | 1996 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Documentary Series | Turning Point (ABC) | Winner | 1996 |
| Erik Barnauw Award | Outstanding Historical Documentary | America's War on Poverty (PBS) | Winner | 1996 |
| Ace Award | - | Inside The NFL (HBO) | Winner | 1997 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | New York Underground (PBS) | Winner | 1997 |
| Fangoria Awards | - | Stephen King's Night Flier (New Line) | Winner | 1998 |
| Ace Awards | - | Inside The NFL (HBO) | Winner | 1998 |
| Emmy Award | Best Historical Programming | Long Journey Home (Disney/PBS) | Nomination | 1998 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Scientific Series | A Science Odyssey (PBS) | Winner | 1998 |
| Sundance Film Festival | Jury Award | Illtown (Shooting Gallery) | Winner | 1998 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Babe Ruth (HBO) | Nomination | 1998 |
| Peabody Award | - | Babe Ruth (HBO) | Winner | 1998 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding non-fiction series | American Experience (PBS) | Winner | 1998 |
| Peabody Award | - | Dare To Compete (HBO) | Winner | 1999 |
| Peabody Awards | - | Fists of Freedom (HBO) | Winner | 1999 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding non-fiction series | American Experience (PBS) | Winner | 1999 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Fists of Freedom (HBO) | Winner | 1999 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Bill Russell (HBO) | Nomination | 2000 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | When It Was A Game (HBO) | Winner | 2000 |
| Peadbody Award | - | Ali/Frazier (HBO) | Winner | 2000 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Ali/Frazier (HBO) | nomination | 2000 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding Achievement in Non - fiction Programming | New York: A Documentary Film (PBS) | Winner | 2000 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) | Winner | 2001 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) | Nomination | 2001 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Pistol Pete (CBS) | Winner | 2001 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Shot Heard 'Round The World (HBO) | Nomination | 2001 |
| Columbia Dupont Award | Best Historical Programming | New York: A Documentary Film (PBS) | Winner | 2002 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Picture Perfect (HBO) | Winner | 2002 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | The Bear (CBS) | Nomination | 2002 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming | Ansel Adams (PBS) | Winner | 2002 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Life Behind the Lens (ESPN) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Peadbody Award | - | The Complete Angler (ESPN) | Winner | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best sports Documentary | Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best sports Documentary | The Teammates (ESPN) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | The Teammates (ESPN) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy | Best Music and Sound | New York: The Center of the World (PBS) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Historical Programming:Long Form | New York: The Center of the World (PBS) | Winner | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Edited Sports Series | Legendary Nights (HBO) | Winner | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Curse of the Bambino (HBO) | Winner | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Curse of the Bambino (HBO) | Winner | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best sports Documentary | Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) | Nomination | 2003 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Entertainment Program | On the Record (HBO) | Winner | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary Mini Series | NYPD 24/7 (ABC) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Hitler's Pawn (HBO) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Hitler's Pawn (HBO) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Sports Illustrated 50 Years (ESPN) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Nine Inning From Ground Zero (HBO) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Nine Innings From Ground Zero (HBO) | Winner | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Non Fiction Mini Series | Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (PBS) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Historical programming: Long Form | Becoming American : Gold Mountain Dreams (PBS) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Historical programming: Long Form | Becoming American : Between Two Worlds (PBS) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Historical programming: Long Form | Becoming American : No Turning Back (PBS) | Nomination | 2004 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Mickey Mantle (HBO) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Mickey Mantle (HBO) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | The Perfect Upset (HBO) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Dare To Dream (HBO) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) | Winner | 2005 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) | Nomination | 2005 |
| Academy Award | Best Documentary: Short Subject | Blood of Yingzhou District (HBO) | Winner | 2006 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming | Eugene O'Neill (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| IDA Award | Best Series | The Supreme Court (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| Peabody Award | - | Andy Warhol (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| Emmy Award | Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming | Andy Warhol (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| Cine Golden Eagle | Best Music Composition | America's Lost Landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| Cine Golden Eagle | Best Documentary | America's Lost Landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie (PBS) | Winner | 2006 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Barbaro (HBO) | Nomination | 2007 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Kabul Girls Club (ESPN) | Nomination | 2007 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | Wait Till Next Year (HBO) | Nomination | 2007 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (HBO) | Nomination | 2008 |
| Emmy Award | Best Non Fiction Program | Into the Deep (PBS) | Nomination | 2010 |
| Academy Award | Best Documentary - Short Subject | The Warrior of Qiugang (Theatrical) | Nomination | 2011 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Running Rebels Of UNLV | Nomination | 2012 |
| Erik Barnauw Award | Outstanding Historical Documentary | Death and the Civil War (PBS) | Winner | 2013 |
| Emmy Award | Best Documentary | Death and the Civil War (PBS) | Nomination | 2013 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | Copper - Main Titles (BBC America) | Nomination | 2013 |
| Emmy Award | Best Music Composition | It's Time (SEC /ESPN) | Nomination | 2015 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | It's Time (SEC /ESPN) | Nomination | 2015 |
| Emmy Award | Best Sports Documentary | 30 For 30 (ESPN) | Winner | 2015 |
Emmy Awards (Composer)
| Award Type | Status | Work | Year | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Babe Ruth (HBO) | 1998 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Bill Russell (HBO) | 2000 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Do You Believe In Miracles? (HBO) | 2001 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Winner | Pistol Pete (CBS) | 2001 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Shot Heard 'Round The World (HBO) | 2001 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Winner | Picture Perfect (HBO) | 2002 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Bluegrass Basketball (ESPN) | 2003 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | The Teammates (ESPN) | 2003 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music and Sound | Nominated | New York The Center of the World (PBS) | 2003 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Jim McKay: My World in My Words (HBO) | 2003 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Winner | Curse of the Bambino (HBO) | 2003 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Hitler's Pawn (HBO) | 2004 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Winner | Nine Innings From Ground Zero (HBO) | 2004 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Rhythm in the Rope (ESPN) | 2005 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | You Write Better Than You Play (ESPN) | 2005 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Mickey Mantle (HBO) | 2005 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Girl's Club of Kabul (ESPN) | 2007 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Barbaro (HBO) | 2007 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | Copper - Main Titles (BBC America) | 2013 | Composer |
| Emmy, Best Music Composition | Nominated | It's Time (SEC /ESPN) | 2013 | Composer |
Grammy Awards(Music Producer)
| Award Type | Status | Work | Year | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album | Nominated | Fire Dance (Celestial Harmonies) | 1990 | Composer/Producer |
| Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album | Nominated | Beyond The Sky (Celestial Harmonies) | 1992 | Composer/Producer |
| Grammy Awards, Best Comedy Album | Nominated | "You're Good Enough..." (BMG /Bantam Audio) | 1992 | Composer/Producer |
| Grammy Awards, Best Folk or Traditional Album | Winner | Long Journey Home Soundtrack (RCA) | 1998 | Composer/Producer |
Soundtrack Releases
| Year | Title | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | "Suleyman The Magnificent" | Celestial Harmonies | Billboard Charting |
| 1992 | "You're Good Enough..." | BMG /Bantam Audio | Grammy Nominee |
| 1995 | The Way West | Shanachie | Indie Award |
| 1998 | Long Journey Home: The Irish In America | RCA | Grammy Winner, Billboard Charting |
| 1998 | Stephen Kings: "The Night Flier" | RCA | Fangoria Award |
| 1999 | New York | RCA | Billboard Charting |
| 2002 | Ansel Adams | Green Linnet | Billboard Charting |
| 2005 | The War That Made America | Valley Entertainment | |
| 2006 | Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film | Valley Entertainment | |
| 2009 | Kelebek | Celestial Harmonies | |
| 2011 | Into The Deep | Valley Entertainment | |
| 2012 | Death And The Civil War | Valley Entertainment | |
| 2013 | Copper: Original Soundtrack | Valley Entertainment |
Select Discography (Music Producer)
| Year | Title | Record Label | Notes | Artists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | At The Airport | WEA | - | Larry Coryell, Brian Keane |
| 1983 | Just Like Being Born | Flying Fish | - | Larry Coryell, Brian Keane |
| 1986 | Snowfalls | Flying Fish | Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts | Brian Keane |
| 1988 | Bolero | Evidence | - | Larry Coryell, Brian Keane |
| 1989 | Tibetan Bells 3: The Empty Mirror | Celestial Harmonies | Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts | Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings |
| 1990 | Fire Dance | Celestial Harmonies | Grammy Nominated, Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts | Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek |
| 1991 | Yamantaka | Celestial Harmonies | - | Henry Wolff, Mickey Hart |
| 1991 | Nelson Rangell | GRP | Billboard Top 20 Contemporary Jazz Charts | Nelson Rangell |
| 1992 | Mariachi Cobre | Celestial Harmonies | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Mariachi Cobre |
| 1992 | Beyond The Sky | Celestial Harmonies | Grammy Nominated, Echoes "Record Of The Year", Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts | Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek |
| 1992 | Common Planet | Blue Note | Billboard Top 20 Contemporary Jazz Charts | Brian Keane |
| 1992 | Festival Of The Heart | Hearts of Space Records | Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts | John Boswell |
| 1993 | Count Me In | Hearts of Space Records | Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts | John Boswell |
| 1993 | Khenany | Celestial Harmonies | - | Khenany |
| 1994 | Whirling | Celestial Harmonies | Top 20 Billboard New Age Charts | Omar Faruk Tekbilek |
| 1994 | Celtic Twilight | Hearts of Space Records | Billboard's "New Age Album Of The Year", #1 Billboard New Age Charts | Various |
| 1995 | VIa Jo | Triloka/Polygram | #1 On World Music Charts In Europe | Vieux Diop |
| 1995 | Este Es Mi Mariachi | Celestial Harmonies /Kuckuck | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Linda Ronstadt, Mariachi Cobre |
| 1995 | Song Of The Irish Whistle | Hearts O' Space | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Joanie Madden |
| 1995 | Celtic Twilight 2 | Hearts O' Space | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Nightnoise, Bill Douglas, John Doan, Alasdair Fraser & Paul Machlis, Kevin Braheny & Tim Clark, Steve McDonald, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Loreena McKennitt, Talitha MacKenzie |
| 1996 | Closer To Far Away | Windham Hill | Billboard Top 20 New Age Charts | Douglass Spotted Eagle |
| 1996 | Mystical Garden | Celestial Harmonies | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Omar Faruk Tekbilek |
| 1996 | Carols Of Christmas | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard #1 On New Age Charts | George Winston, Michael Hedges, Steve Morse, David Darling, Ray Lynch, Richard Stoltzman, Marion Meadows, Jim Brickman, Manuel Barrueco |
| 1997 | Summer Solstice | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts For 4 Months | George Winston, Michael Hedges, William Ackerman, Liz Story, Keola Beamer, Sean Harkness |
| 1997 | Celtic Twilight 4: Celtic Planet | Hearts O' Space | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Davy Spillane, Bill Douglas, Carlos Núñez, John Doan, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Anúna, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh |
| 1997 | Winter Solstice VI | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard #1 New Age Charts | George Winston, Michael Hedges |
| 1997 | Crescent Moon | Celestial Harmonies | - | Omar Faruk Tekbilek |
| 1997 | Conversations with God | Windham Hill | Billboard #1 New Age Charts | Ray Lynch, Gabrielle Roth and The Mirror, Jim Brickman, David Arkenstone, Yanni, Shadowfax, Patrick O'Hearn, Mark Isham |
| 1998 | Long Journey Home | Unisphere/RCA Victor/BMG | Grammy Award Winner: Best Folk / Traditional Album. Billboard Top 10 World Music Charts | Various, The Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, Mary Black, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Vince Gill, |
| 1998 | Threads Of Time | RCA | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Cherish the Ladies |
| 1998 | The Renaissance Album | Windham Hill/BMG | - | Various, Nancy Wilson, Ann Wilson, The Baltimore Consort, Angels of Venice, John Doan |
| 1998 | Summer Solstice 2 | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Buckwheat Zydeco, Taj Mahal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tuck & Patti, Earl Klugh, W.G. Snuffy Walden, |
| 1998 | Thanksgiving | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Paul Winter, George Winston, Carlos Nakai, Paul McCandless, Michael Manring, Philip Aaberg, John Sebastian |
| 1998 | Song Of The Irish Whistle 2 | Hearts O' Space | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Joanie Madden |
| 1998 | Sanctuary | Windham Hill | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Jim Brickman, William Ackerman, Tracy Silverman, Michael Hedges, Michael Manring, Liz Story, Alex De Grassi, William Edward Childs, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Metamora |
| 1999 | Here There Everywhere | Windham Hill | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | W. G. Snuffy Walden, Tuck & Patti, Wayne Johnson, Liz Story, Michael Hedges, George Winston, Doyle Dykes, Angels of Venice |
| 1999 | Winter Solstice On Ice | Windham Hill | Billboard #1 New Age Charts | W. G. Snuffy Walden, Peabo Bryson, Mark Snow, Jim Brickman, George Winston, Janis Ian, Michael Hedges, Roberta Flack, Jeffrey Osborne, The Rippingtons, Yani, Mark Isham |
| 1999 | Song Of The Hills | Shanachie | - | John Sebastian, Bill Keith, Jay Ungar, Eric Weissberg, Norman Blake, Tony Trischka |
| 1999 | Crossing The Bridge | Sony | Billboard Top 10 On The World Music Charts | Eileen Ivers, Al Di Meola, Steve Gadd, Randy Brecker, Bakithi Kumalo, Séamus Egan, |
| 1999 | Sundance Summer Solstice | Windham Hill/BMG | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | George Winston, Will Ackerman, Jim Brickman, Jay Beckenstein, Angels of Venice, Phil Aaeberg, Paul McCandless, Michael Nanring, David Arkenstone |
| 1999 | Celtic Twilight 5 | Hearts O' Space | Billboard Top 10 New Age Charts | Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Bill Douglas, Jeff Danna, John Doan, Mychael Danna, Joanie Madden, Jeff Johnson |
| 1999 | At Home | RCA | Billboard Top 10 World Charts | Cherish The Ladies |
| 2000 | Afrika Wassa | Sony/Triloka | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Vieux Diop |
| 2000 | The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone | RCA | Top 20 Billboard World Charts | Cherish the Ladies, Pete Seeger, Liam Clancy, Arlo Guthrie |
References
- ↑ Brian Keane at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Biography". Brian Keane Music.
- ↑ "BBC America's 'Copper' Becomes the Channel's Highest Rated Series Premiere Ever". Zap2it.com. August 21, 2012.
- ↑ "65th Primetime Emmys Nominees and Winners - Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music - 2013". Emmy Awards.
- ↑ "Film Scores". Steepl ofechase Films.
- 1 2 "Composer Brian Keane Scores Three Sports Emmy Nominations". Mix. April 12, 2002.
- ↑ "Albums (Producer)". Brian Keane Music.
- ↑ "Winter's Solstice, Vol. 1: Silver Anniversary Edition CD". CDUniverse.com.
- ↑ "Long Journey Home (1998 Television Mini-series) Soundtrack". Amazon.com.
- ↑ "Brian Keane". Celestial Harmonies.
- ↑ "Brian Keane". Studio Askin.
- ↑ "Sports Emmy Nomination Triple Play for Composer Brian Keane". Digital Pro Sound.
External links
- Official website
- Brian Keane at the Internet Movie Database
- AllMusic
- Music from the hearts of Space
- PBS.org
- Valley Entertainment
- Thomas Lennon Films
- Simon and Goodman Picture company
- Storyville Films
- Amazon