Welcome to the official web site of Grammy and multiple Emmy Award winning composer Brian Keane.
Multiple Emmy and Peabody Award winning composer, Grammy award winning producer, and world renowned guitarist guitarist Brian Keane has scored literally hundreds of films and television shows, and produced over 150 albums, mostly from his studio in the woods of Connecticut. His music has been hailed critically as "indelible and breathtaking" by the Los Angeles Times, "piercingly beautiful" by The New York Times and "masterful" by Newsweek, and he has been called a "musician's musician" by Downbeat, a "composer's composer" by The Hollywood Reporter, and “one of the most creative and refreshing musicians of our time” by the editor of Billboard magazine.
Brian’s many enduring credits as a music composer include Ric Burns Emmy winning expansive history series debuting in 1999, with episodes added as late as 2026, New York A Documentary film, seen by over 60 million viewers, it is one of the biggest selling documentaries in the history of television, with a ten volume complete music soundtrack on Valley Entertainment, “Long Journey Home” which won a Grammy for it’s soundtrack in collaboration with The Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Sinead O’Connor, and others, the classic “Winter’s Solstice” record series for Windham Hill which he produced, and his ground breaking ethnic recordings with middle eastern musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Irish musician Joanie Madden, and many others.
After taking all of 2025 to record three symphony projects around the world, Brian started January of 2026 making a video to his 1984 symphony, “A Speck In Time” with Emmy-winning editor Paul Carruthers, and partner Bonnie Erickson.
Brian returned to the studio in February to finish a project with long time Middle Eastern musical partner, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, including the original band from their ground breaking 1992 hit album, “Beyond The Sky”, with Armenian percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan, master oud player Ara Dinkjian, and kanun firebrand, Hasan Isakkut, along with a symphony orchestra assembled from the top players in New York, and including guests like Paul Simon’s Lebanese percussionist, Jamey Haddad, kanun phenom, Tamer Pinarbasi, German New Age superstar singer Deva Premal, spiritual singer Aureliaslight, bassist Leo Huppert, Los Angeles drummer Chris Wabich, and Omar’s son Murat Tekbilek. "A Middle Eastern Symphony" is Brian and Omar's first collaborative record together since the 2009 soundtrack to the Turkish feature film “Kelebek”. Brian and Omar have performed live since, selling out Carnegie Hall together in 2018, and a European and Middle Eastern tour in 2019, but covid came, along with other projects. Omar and Brian have finally made a long-awaited reunion record together that will come out in 2027. Their original collaboration, on the 1987 soundtrack to "Suleyman the Magnificent”, enjoyed millions of streams last year, and their classic duo records “Fire Dance” and “Beyond the Sky” continue to soar to this day.
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