Neil Kelly's composition work includes the production of printed scores, public performances, radio broadcasts, commissions, arrangements, soundtracks, operas, publications and recordings. It focuses on large works for string quartet, theatre, choir, electro-acoustic and multimedia. He also has wide experience as a conductor, bass player, record producer and musical director.
Neil Kelly is part of constellation in Melbourne.
He was lecturer in contemporary music theory and composition at Latrobe University from 19902000. His research included a detailed study of the music of Alban Berg. He cofounded the art music group Slave Pianos in 1999. In 2000, they toured Russia with Krasnyi Quartet. In 2004, their acoustic theatre work, Two Lives in Flux, was premiered in Lithuania. Their largescale multiartform work, Dissident Consonances, was presented in Melbourne and Berlin in 2007. He recently completed a large work for the New Yorkbased Flux String Quartet. He is currently co-operator of Run Stop Sound, a professional recording studio producing his own work and recordings by other artists.
His time is now spent balancing composition activities with recording, teaching and playing guitar.
