Dr. Keating is the Music Director of Colorado Brass and has conducted the group since 2022. He has led the group to national recognition with podium finishes at NABBA and the US Masters. Dr. Keating has been brass-banding for over fifteen years and has enjoyed the opportunity to compete in England, Switzerland, and the US while being a member of bands stateside and abroad.

Dr. Keating serves as Director of Bands at Colorado State University Pueblo. He is also the Music Director of the The Lake City Stinger Band (Lake City, CO), The Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band (Silverton, CO), and the Colorado Brass Band (Gunnison, CO). Dr. Keating previously served as Director of Bands & Brass at Western Colorado University, Director of Athletic Bands and professor of low brass at Carroll University, as well as Interim Instructor of euphonium and tuba at the University of Kansas. Dr. Keating also serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Music Educators Association and the North American Brass Band Association.

Dr. Keating held simultaneous Graduate Teaching Assistantships with the wind conducting and the tuba/euphonium studios while earning his DMA in tuba/euphonium performance, an MM in wind band conducting, and a cognate in electro-acoustic composition at KU. He also holds an MM in performance and interpretation of classical & contemporary music from the Hochschule Luzern-Musik, where he lived in beautiful Lucerne, Switzerland for three years. Dr. Keating earned an Artist’s Certificate in low brass performance, as well as a BA in performance, from the University of Wisconsin.