Keith Denning is a Toronto-based composer, performer and freelancer. He plays clarinet and accordion in the Ugly Bug Band, and is a founding member of Earshot Concerts. His compositions have been performed in Canada and Europe and recorded on Clef Records. He is a freelance web designer and a music engraver specializing in new music through his small imprint, Denning Editions.

Keith was born in 1969 in Sarnia, Ontario. As a composer, he is largely self-taught, but also with the good fortune of having studied with composers Walter Buczynski, Chan Ka Nin and Lothar Klein at the University of Toronto, where he completed a BA in Music Composition and English in 1993.

Denning’s music has been performed by such diverse groups as St. Crispin’s Ensemble, The Composers’ Orchestra, Trillium Brass Quintet and the Edmonton Chamber Orchestra, and individual performers including Scott Good, John Kameel Farah, Daan Vandewalle, Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, Rob Mosher and Joseph Petric.

Aside from chamber and orchestral music, Denning has also created music for the stage (Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, produced in Toronto in 1991), soundscapes for exhibits (Ontario Timeship 2000), and for the award-winning website designers at www.unpluggedstudio.com.

Keith Denning lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.

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