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C. Keith Collins

Adjunct Lecturer in Music (Historical bassoons)

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Email:
ckcollin@iu.edu
Department:
Historical Performance Institute
Merrill Hall, MU343

Education

  • D.M. Doctor of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music , 2008
  • M.M. Master of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music , 1999
  • B.M. Bachelor of Music, Berry College, 1996

Biography

Since 1998, C. Keith Collins has performed, recorded, and taught baroque and classical bassoon, curtal, recorder, shawm, and harp with many ensembles in North and South America. He is a founding member of the award-winning shawm and curtal band Ensemble Lipzodes, which specializes in the music of colonial Latin America. Among the many groups he has performed or recorded with are Washington Bach Consort, Tafelmusik, National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Atelier, Arion Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, Mercury Baroque, Echoing Air, Newberry Consort, Folger Consort, Bach Ensemble, and the Grammy-nominated Musik Ekklesia. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY). 

Keith is adjunct instructor in historical bassoon and recorder at Indiana University's Historical Performance Institute, and also teaches baroque bassoon and curtal at the University of North Texas. He has taught at Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Indiana University Recorder Academy, and has been guest lecturer at the Indiana Early Double Reed Workshop. He has been a writer for NPR's early music program Harmonia.  

His other interests include the history of Appalachian folk music and the banjo, early American hymnody and the shape-note tradition, and the early history and repertoire of the harp in the UK and Ireland. Keith serves as a board member for the Indiana Raptor Center, a non-profit dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of wild birds of prey. He is part of a team that gives public presentations designed to educate the general public about raptor ecology and conservation. 

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