Scott Keever

Guitar, piano, bass guitar, mandolin, ukulele, music theory, composition, and music production

Scott is an award-winning composer, musician, instructor, and collaborator spanning two decades’ professional experience in performance, music instruction and composition. He has composed and produced music for film, theatre, podcasts, and radio. Scott also performs with Orkestar Bez Ime (OBI), an award-winning Twin Cities group that specializes in folk music from the Balkan and Eastern European regions.

Scott has been teaching music professionally for over a decade and takes great care in creating a lesson plan based on the individual students' needs. In teaching multiple instruments, he can also teach multiple approaches to accommodate the student and what best works for them. He specializes in teaching neurodivergent students (child and adult) and enjoys finding new ways to access a students' potential.

In 2012, as a member of Balkan/Eastern European ensemble Orkestar Bez Ime (OBI), Scott won the Emerging Composers Award from the American Composers Forum. The ACF award inspired the OBI album “Unveiled – Live at The Celtic Junction” (2014), for which Scott contributed two pieces.

As a performer, he has focused on fingerstyle guitar, which he has performed throughout the Midwest. He has two albums: "Solo Guitar: Vol 1" (2018) and "Solo Guitar: Vol 2" (2022). He has also performed with a wide range of artists, including Celtic/Americana band Sweet Colleens, mandolinist/composer Peter Ostroushko and singer Prudence Johnson, He has also worked extensively in the Twin Cities theater scene: He has been a music director for Brave New Workshop and has performed music for productions by Walking Shadow Theater, Flying Foot Forum, Ethnic Dance Theatre, and TableSalt Productions.

As a composer, Scott has had experience working in a wide variety of styles over the last twenty years, from orchestral to jazz to Americana to electronic. He has also focused on ethnic/world folk music in his work, wherein he has specialized in Irish/Celtic and Eastern European styles.

Scott graduated with a B.A. in Music from the University of Minnesota – School of Music, where he focused on Composition and Guitar. He studied Composition under the guidance of Alex Lubet and Doug Geers.