Composed the soundtrack for The Hum . A GPS located smart phone app. Conceived and Directed by Nic Sandiland. Ran throughout Brighton Festival and around the UK
"V" Four pieces for Solo Viola with Choreography by Joss Arnott won "Special Award for Outstanding Choreographic Musical Interpretation and Dance Technicality" at the Warsaw Zawirowania Dance International Choreography Competition
Associate musical director for "Here All Night" words by Samuel Beckett, music by Paul Clark with Gare St Lazare Ireland
at Arts Emerson Boston
Dame Evelyn Glennie performing the Recital version of the music for Joss Arnott's "Wide Awakening" in residency at King's Cross Cubitt Sessions
and around the world from Tasmania to Rome to Canada... - "a virtuoso treatment of standard percussion instruments albeit cast in an impressive array of shifting textures" - Calgary Herald
Composed for Charles Linehan for "A Quarter Plus Green", Brighton Festival
Composed music and soundscore for "somewhat still when seen from above" Choreography by Theo Clinkard with Leah Marojevic for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, one of the commissions for "Neue Stuck", premiered at Opernhaus Wuppertal, Germany
Performed in "Political Mother, The Choreographer's Cut" with Hofesh Shechter Company at O2 Brixton Academy, London, La Grande Hall De La Vilette, Paris, also Berlin, Monpelier and Hong Kong
Toured internationally since the premier in 2010 with Hofesh Shechter's "Political Mother"
Trailers
The Days Maria Nurmela, Conceived and directed by Theo Clinkard - Music
James Keane - Trained at Trinity College of Music. He has composed for dance, theatre, TV, animation and the concert hall and has conducted music for opera,
concerts, TV, films, and CDs.
As a performer he has worked with Deborah Warner (LIFT), Tom Morris (NT, BAC), Struan Leslie (NT, WNO), Melly Still (Lyric Hammersmith),
Johnathan Stone (Purcell Room and touring), Julian Crouch, Lizzi Kew-Ross (Laban), Simon Fisher Turner. As a conductor/orchestrator/instrumentalist
he's worked with The Clod Ensemble, The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs, Welsh National Opera, Ballet Rambert, Hofesh Shechter and composers
Murray Gold (BBC, C4), John Browne (ROH), Paul Clark (NT) and bands The Jazz Cigarettes (live karaoke), The Blue Dogs and Heist (supporting The Fall).
James was a founder member of the London Guitar Trio, premiering over 20 new works. He has taught at Trinity Laban, Central School Of Speech And Drama,
Universities of Chichester and Portsmouth and for seven years was an Associate Lecturer in Theatre Improvisation at University College Winchester.
He plays piano, percussion and iPad for contemporary classes and ballet at Trinity Laban, University of Surrey, University College Chichester,
Adventures in Motion Pictures, Lost Dog, DV8, Royal Ballet School and Ballet Rambert.
He has conducted a choir at Tate Modern Turbine Hall in Clod Ensemble's "Silver Swan", also conducted a string orchestra and played fuzz bass
in Clod's "An Anatomie in Four Quarters" at Sadlers Wells, Wales Millennium Centre and Manchester Camerata at The Lowry; conducted Opera North Chorus in RnD for a new opera by
Melanie Wilson; toured internationally with Hofesh Shechter Company as Guitarist and Drummer and also performed in "Political Mother:
The Choreographer's Cut" in Brixton Academy, Sadlers Wells, Paris and Hong Kong; performed in Without Warning company; was associate musical
director for the world premiere of "Here All Night", words by Samuel Beckett, music by Paul Clark at the Brighton Festival '13 and Arts Emerson, Boston '16 and was musician
in residence for the 2014 Brighton Festival Parade.
He has composed for Charles Linehan, Lost Dog, Charlotte Spencer Projects, Rachel Birch-Lawson, Lizzi Kew Ross, Struan Leslie for The Circus Space,
Flexer & Sandiland, Ali Curtis Jones with Summit Theatre, Candoo2, SHIFT, The Natashas Project, Noa Genazzano, Youth Music Theatre UK and
Joss Arnott Dance - including a piece with Dame Evelyn Glennie which she is now performing in recitals. He composed for, and performs in,
Theo Clinkard's "Chalk" and "Of Land and Tongue" and his Brighton Festival '17 commission This Bright Field. He also composed for Theo's
"somewhat still when seen from above" for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch