ABOUT ME

Born in Enniskillen, Keith Acheson moved to Belfast in 1993 to pursue his musical studies at the Ulster University, completing them in 2002 after being awarded a PhD in Composition. 

He has written for a wide range of groups and ensembles, from orchestral to solo and acoustic to digital and during lockdown has developed his skills in audio and video mixing and mastering.

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Along with his compositional work, he is also the choirmaster of four local choirs all based in Belfast. 

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ORIGINAL WORKS:

• Ellipses - 12 Movement hour-long work for soprano & ensemble

• Pandemic Soundscape  

• Podcast Intro & Outro - for Quotidian Poetry Podcast Series

• With You, Without You - for cello & piano

• Always - for cello & piano

• Wretches: Rights Wrongs & Revolutions - for soprano, poet, choir SAA, piano, string quartet & tape

• Blight Sketches - for string quartet

• 18: In Honour of Belfast Suffrage

• Turf: 40 min audio score for contemporary dance theatre performance 

• Lumen - for choir SAB

• Ah Moon & Star - for choir SAB

• It Was Then - for choir SAB

• Praise Him - for choir SAB 

• Strike - for string quartet 

• Shadowlines - for solo clarinet

• Scattererd Remnants - for guitar

• Out of the Forest - for ensemble and dancers

• Lie Still - for choir SAB

• Chemical Reaction - for amplified ensemble

• ...neither has my cat - for orchestra

• Cut - for two pianos

• Changes - for wind quintet

• Piano Quintet

• Plummet - for solo cello

• Rhythmic Inflections - for chamber orchestra

• For Strings - for string orchestra

• Hey! - for piano trio

• Holy, Holy, Holy - for choir SSAATTBB

• Christus Natus Hodie - for choir SATB & organ

• Dance Movements - for flute & piano

• String Quartet in 3 Movements