Music Without Boundary: A Conversation With Jim Keller

Jim Keller is a musician, producer, songwriter, composer, publisher, and manager who has spent over forty years in the music industry. He was the co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter for the band Tommy Tutone and remains an active songwriter and performer with the Jim Keller Band.  His most recent and 6th solo album, Daylight, was released in May to great acclaim. As a producer, publisher, and manager, Keller worked with Phillip Glass for 25 years, first running Glass’s publishing company and later, as Glass’s manager. In 1999, Keller founded the publishing and management company St. Rose Music, where he worked with composers and artists including Nico Muhly, Rachel Portman, Rufus Wainwright, Angelica Negron, Tom Waits, Jeff Beal, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Ravi Shankar, and Anoushka Shankar.  

Join Jim Keller in conversation with Professor Jen Gunderman to discuss diverse career paths within the music industry and his own storied career, which has included work as a publisher, producer, manager, performer and songwriter, in a myriad of fields including opera, modern dance, music theater, pop, orchestral, film scores and advertising etc.