Geoffrey Keezer
Jazz
Musician
Piano
Early life[edit]
Born in Eau Claire, the son of Mary Ann Graham, a professional French Horn player, and Ronald Willard Keezer, a composer/percussionist and member of the music faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,[3][4] Geoff Keezer attended Putnam Heights Elementary School,[5] South Junior High School,[6] and Memorial High School, graduating in 1988.[7]
Television[edit]
Keezer appeared on German television in 1989 with Art Blakey. In 1995, he appeared on NBC's Today Show as part of the Terence Blanchard Quintet. In the late 1990s, he played on German, French and Swiss TV as a member of the Ray Brown Trio. In 2000, he joined Ingrid Jensen on BET's Jazz Central Station. Keezer appeared on Japan's NHK in 2005 during their coverage of that year's Tokyo Jazz Festival. In 2012, Keezer played on ABC's Good Morning America and The View in a band with Chris Botti and country star Vince Gill.[20]
Teaching[edit]
Keezer is a jazz faculty member at the Juilliard School[21] and William Paterson University.[22]
He has taught master classes at the Brubeck Institute, the Royal Academy of Music, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, The New School, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, Indiana University, Michigan State University, the Jazzschool, Jazz Aspen, the Amsterdam College for the Arts, the Guildhall School of Music and The Hartt School of Music.
He also has three online courses a course with the online jazz lessons platform, Open Studio, "The Keez to Jazz Piano", "Advanced Jazz Piano Concepts" and "Elements of Solo Piano".[23]