Matt Keegan
Matt Keegan regularly performs throughout Australia and around the world. As a saxophonist, composer, arranger and producer he has released eight albums and won the MCA Freedman Fellowship for jazz.
As a project leader of twenty years’ experience, Keegan has produced and released eight albums featuring his prolific work as a composer, arranger and saxophone soloist. In 2011 he won the prestigious MCA Freedman Fellowship for jazz.
He is artistic director of the international, intercultural ensemble The Three Seas. In 2018 he received the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund award. Fika (MCD 603) is the first album he has produced for Elysian Fields.
Performing as Elysian Fields
Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba ensemble, was formed by Jenny Eriksson, Matt Keegan and Matt McMahon in 2015. The band is an ongoing experiment in new improvised and composed repertoire for the electric viola da gamba, of which Eriksson is believed to be the only Australian exponent.
Fika
Fika is the second album from crossover ensemble Elysian Fields: music shaped for the Swedish custom of gathering with friends over coffee, conversation and something sweet to share.
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What should I say
Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields joins Jenny Eriksson with jazz colleagues Matt Keegan and Matt McMahon in new repertoire that sets Renaissance verse beside contemporary improvisation.
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