Zoe Keating
A cellist since the age of eight, Keating pursued electronic music and contemporary composition as part of her Liberal Arts studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and built a career as an information architect and data analyst while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Keating eventually combined her love of music and technology, using a computer to live-layer her cello and performing for late-night after-parties in her San Francisco warehouse.
She is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label.
Her music has achieved a surprising degree of popular ubiquity for a DIY artist. Her self-produced album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" was four times #1 on the iTunes classical charts and her follow-up album "Into the Trees" spent 47 weeks on the Billboard classical chart, peaking at #7. Her music has been used in over 20,000 third-party videos uploaded to Youtube, in everything from dance performances, films, plays, live paintings, climbing videos and live gaming soundtracks. Her advocacy for DIY artists stems, in part, from her efforts to obtain some income from official and unofficial uses while at the same time allowing people to use her music in their own artistic expression.
As a cellist Zoë has played with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Guy Sigsworth, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, Sean Ono Lennon, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini.
In 2017 Zoë moved to Burlington, Vermont. Her latest recording, a four song EP called "Snowmelt", was released in 2018 and spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Classical Charts. She is currently working on another album.
"...a distinctive mix of old and new -- layers of sound, that feel more like orchestrations than a solo instrument. " - National Public Radio
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