Perhaps best known through his twenty-eight year association with the University of Miami Studio Music and Jazz program, Gary Keller also maintains an active performance schedule and has toured/recorded/performed with a broad range of jazz artists and ensembles, including Woody Herman, Frank Sinatra, Dave Liebman, Ira Sullivan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jaco Pastorius, The Jaco Pastorious Big Band, Maria Schnieder, Jim McNeely, Manny Album, Billy Hart, Kenny Werner, Adam Nussbaum, Chico O'Farrill, Kenny Wheeler, Clare Fischer, and the University of Miami Concert Jazz Band. In the classical realm he has performed/recorded with the Florida Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Naples Symphony, St. Petersburg (Russia) Symphony, Chamber Music Palm Beach, and the American Jazz Philharmonic. Proficient on all saxophones and in myriad musical styles, Keller has been a first call session player in South Florida for several decades, and is equally at home fronting a jazz combo, playing a concerto in front of a symphony orchestra, or backing up a name entertainer. Known as a soprano saxophone specialist, his position in the acclaimed Miami Saxophone Quartet gives him ample opportunity to showcase the instrument. Keller is a Conn-Selmer endorsed artist, and has both written and been the subject of articles in the Saxophone Journal, Woodwind Player, IAJE Journal, and the Saxophone Symposium. He has appeared in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and has presented master classes at universities worldwide, including the Sibelius Academy in Finland, the Guildhall School in London, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. His Jazz Chord/Scale Handbook (Advance Music) is in use at universities worldwide.
