A cellist since the age of eight, Zoë Keating has combined her love of music and technology to compose and perform distinctive music using a computer to live-layer.
Composing for TV, theatre, film and dance, along with collaborator Jeff Russo, Zoë has written scores for the A&E series "The Returned" and for WGN's "Manhattan", a drama about the making of the atomic bomb. Her songs are used as bumper music for NPR’s Morning Edition, as the theme music to OnBeing, as the thinking-music of the Sherlock Holmes character on CBS Elementary and in countless films, commercials, TV shows and documentaries.
A vocal advocate for the rights of artists and creators, she is also known for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label. Her music has achieved a surprising degree of popular ubiquity for a DIY artist. Her self-produced album "One Cello x 16: Natoma" was four times #1 on the iTunes classical charts and her follow-up album "Into the Trees" spent 47 weeks on the Billboard classical chart, peaking at #7. Her advocacy for DIY artists stems, in part, from her efforts to obtain some income from official and unofficial uses while at the same time allowing people to use her music in their own artistic expression.
As a cellist Zoë has played with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Guy Sigsworth, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, Sean Ono Lennon, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini.