Jeff Kellem (ASCAP) is a pianist/keyboardist, composer, arranger, and orchestrator with a background in analog synthesis, composition, classical, jazz, and electronic music. In the 1980s, he helped build a new electronic music studio to supplement tape splicing and the ARP 2500 & 2600s at Boston University. He played keys with groovy funk rock (now trip-hop) band Z.O.N.K. in its early days in San Francisco, California and was part of the mid-1990s Boston music scene.

Jeff is also a typeface designer (music notation & text fonts), dancer, choreographer, concert photographer, music/composition/dance coach, system architect, and researcher. He has performed around the world; some favorite performance cities include Prague, Paris, Moscow, Asheville, and Boston. He continues to guest perform with vintage and swing dance troupes.

Composition coaching sessions—providing a sounding board—have also been a salve over the past several years, in addition to the ASMAC events.

Jeff is a voting member of the Recording Academy (NARAS), supporter of The AWFC (Alliance for Women Film Composers), Composers Diversity Collective, among other organizations.

Snippet of Jeff’s Background. He designed the bespoke shape-note music typeface for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition.

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