Zoë Keating

Zoë Clare Keating (born February 2, 1972) is a Canadian-American cellist and composer once based in San Francisco, California, now based in Vermont. Music career Keating performed from 2002 to 2006 as second chair cellist in the cello rock band Rasputina. She is featured on Amanda Palmer’s debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer. In her solo performances and recordings Keating uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures. , her self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma reached number 1 on the iTunes classical charts four times, and “Into the Trees” spent 47 weeks on the Billboard classical chart, peaking at number 7. She is the recipient of a 2009 Performing Arts Award from Creative Capital. Keating’s songs have been featured in various commercials, TV shows, films, video games, and dance performances, including HBO’s White Lotus, Amazon Prime’s Mammals, CBS’s Elementary, NBC’s Crisis, So You Think You Can Dance, MTV’s Teen Wolf, Dateline, Have You Heard from Johannesburg, The Day Carl Sandburg Died, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, The Retrieval, The Witness, and PBS’s Searching: Our Quest f