Gavin Keese is an award-winning composer for film, television, and video games. Originally from Houston, Texas, he lived in Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Connecticut, and New York before coming to Los Angeles.
Gavin creates moving and evocative music, often incorporating diverse ethnic styles. His credits include everything from Irish to Chinese to Middle-Eastern to Russian circus music.
An extremely versatile composer, Gavin has composed for a wide variety of projects, from introspective dramas to large-scale science fiction works. His powerful orchestral score for the film Captain Valedor won multiple awards, including a Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival.
In other projects, Gavin has carefully balanced emotion and restraint to bring out the subtleties of more complex stories. This is often exemplified in his music for films about humanitarian and cultural issues, such as the feature documentary Rett and the award-winning film Nasser.
Gavin is a graduate of the acclaimed Scoring For Motion Pictures and Television program at USC, where he studied with many of Hollywood's veteran composers, including Joel McNeely (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles), Chris Young (Spider-Man 3), and Lennie Moore (Star Wars: The Old Republic). Gavin was also selected for a year-long mentorship with legendary film composer Alan Silvestri (Contact, Back to the Future).
In addition to USC, Gavin is a graduate of the NYU Music and Performing Arts Department, where he was the recipient of the 2005 Composition Award and the Presser scholarship for excellence in music. In 2008, he studied and composed film music at the Aspen Music Festival and School on an ASCAP Fellowship for Film Scoring and Composition.
Gavin currently lives in Los Angeles and is a member of ASCAP.