Congratulations | Album Reviewed
Andrea Keeble, solo violinist with the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra
Andrea returns to her home town to feature as solo violinist performing Wieniawski’s ‘Legende’ with the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra on Sunday Sept 16 at 2 pm at the Hamilton Performing Arts Centre.
Enjoy orchestral favourites and celebrate the best of Hamilton’s regional soloists, followed by afternoon tea!
Adults $30
Concession $25
Tickets and more info;
Phone: 5573 0429
Prana House presents Ad Hoc Collective
As the third concert in its Downward Dog Music Series, Prana House presents Ad Hoc Collective on Sat 1st Sept at 8 pm
An eclectic, mash up of musicians and composers from Melbourne’s vibrant music scene, Ad Hoc Collective feature Andrea Keeble’s new album ‘Congratulations’ performing songs composed for string quintet and percussion, with exquisite vocals by Dan Witton (Bush Gothic), woven between compositions exploring classical strings, jazz, improvisation and the avant-garde. Helen Mountfort (My Friend the Chocolate Cake), Kylie Morrigan (Mal Webb +), Helen Ireland (Flinders Quartet) and Ronny Ferella (IshIsh) are also featured on the ride from cabaret to gypsy folk and jazz to classical and back again. Hope you can join us!
Prana House:
Level1/885 High St
Thornbury, Vic 3071
Cost: $25
For more details and ticket bookings visit here
Ad Hoc Collective String Quartet @ Melbourne Polytechnic
Ad Hoc Collective String Quartet performs new compositions composed for string quartet by third year composition students at Melbourne Polytechnic on Tuesday 19th June at 3 pm.
Yarra Edge Music Centre (Theatre) – room G101 at Melbourne Polytechnic,
Yarra Bend Road, Fairfield VIC 3078.
Ad Hoc Collective String Quartet –
Andrea Keeble and Kylie Morrigan, violins
Helen Ireland, viola
Noella Yan, ‘cello
Composers include –
Chris Lewis (from Bush Gothic and MSO’s ‘Pizzicato Effect’), David Brislin, James Leigh, Jasmin Vertkas, Kier Stevens, Peter Cocklin, and Renato Vacirca (from The Wikimen).
Review – JAZZ’N’MORE Das Schweizer Jazz and Blues Magazine Jan/Feb No. 1/2018
“The Australian Andrea Keeble is a highly trained classic violinist. She was part of several different orchestras, composed distinguished film scores and is a member of different internationally renowned ensembles of both Classical and New Music. But what distinguishes her even more impressively is the breadth of her horizon. She is a founding member and leader of the Ad Hoc Music Collective, supporting musician in The Black Arm Band – a gathering of Australia’s finest Indigenous musicians making music to defend their rights – and is regularly touring with the folk-inspired Quintet Cosmo Cosmolino. (more…)
Greg Van Meeuwen of 3PBS interviews Andrea Keeble
December 14 : 2017
Greg Van Meeuwen of 3PBS Radio Melbourne interviewed Andrea at the end of last year just after the launch concert of her new album “Congratulations”.
Andrea Keeble’s latest album
Andrea Keeble’s latest album, Congratulations, will be performed by Ad Hoc Music Collective on Saturday 9th December at the Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St. Carlton at 7.30 pm.
Tickets $30/$20 at the door or available here
Ad Hoc Music Collective:
Andrea Keeble and Edwina Kayser: violins
Jason Bunn: viola
Michelle John: ‘cello
Rosie Westbrook: double bass
Ronny Ferella: drum kit and percussion
Dan Witton: voice
Andrea Keeble’s latest album, Congratulations, reflects her distinct body of composition and musicianship for the last two decades in Australia’s classical, jazz, gypsy and avant-garde music scenes. Two beautifully arranged songs, with gorgeous, fluid vocals by Dan Witton, bookend the recording. The tracks in-between explore string, jazz, improvisation and experimental ground – from cabaret to gypsy folk to classical and back again.
Andrea is an accomplished string player, and her understanding of the instrument and willingness to push it into new roles and spaces permeates the album. The stylistic range is impressive, with tracks that seem almost wholly experimental suddenly branching into classical ostinatos, gentle lyrics and accessible chord progressions.
The title and title track, far from being self-congratulatory, play on the courage of breaking down old habits. Each composition, as it moves through new, engaging and often haunting space, creates an impression of positive change. If you like eclectic music, you’ll love Congratulations, with its atmospheric flavours of Keeble’s long-term membership with Cosmo Cosmolino, and influences of straight jazz, classical Bartók strings and even Iceland’s Sigur Rós.
Ad Hoc String Quartet @ Melbourne Polytechnic
Ad Hoc String Quartet performs new compositions for String Quartet and soloists
on Thurs 9th Nov at 3 pm
Yarra Edge Music Centre (Theatre) – room G101 at Melbourne Polytechnic,
Yarra Bend Road, Fairfield VIC 3078.
Ad Hoc String Quartet performs new compositions composed by the third year composition students of Melbourne Polytechnic for String Quartet and soloists.
Ad Hoc String Quartet
Aaron Barnden and Andrea Keeble, violins
Ceridwen Davies, viola
Noella Yan, ‘cello
Soloists include –
Deborah Kayser, Alice Bennett, Amy Odongo, Fabian Elias, Tully Sumner, Pablo Andres Vargas Pedroza and Mitchell Wynne.
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