Brian Keane

Who is Brian Keane?

Brian Keane 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. Brian is known as one of the most prominent composers of his era in scoring television documentaries.

Collectively, Brian Keane has scored over a hundred award winning documentaries and films, including sixteen Emmy winners for best documentary or series, nine Peabody Award winning films, five Oscar nominated films, and one Academy Award winning film. Brian Keane is the winner of four Emmy awards for music composition, among nineteen nominations. In 2001, he became the first and only composer in the history of the Emmy awards to sweep all of the nominations for music in a single year.

Brian'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. In 2013 Brian Keane was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for Copper in the category of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.