Keith Allan Kramer, jazz guitarist, composer and recording engineer, currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Keith has been performing and teaching guitar for 20 years. He has studied guitar with Carl Filipiak, Scott McGill, Walt Namuth, Derek Day and Paul Wingo. His compositions are performed frequently throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. He has studied composition with Thomas DeLio, John Van der Slice and Stuart Saunders Smith. Keith received his D.M.A. in composition from the University of Miami and his M.Mus. in composition from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Keith's latest release as a modern classical composer is the exciting new double CD set on the Navona label entitled Emerge, featuring over two hours of never-before released music and enhanced content featuring complete scores, concert footage and biographies of the performers featured in the recordings. It is available at many fine music distributors including Amazon, Arkiv Music, CD Universe and iTunes. Excerpts of all the tracks can be heard by clicking on the Sounds link above. The title track of Emerge is a twenty-minute orchestral work that is also heard on the Navona release Mementos, which also features great works by Stephen Yip, Jason Barabba and Shawn Crouch. Mementos is available at Amazon, iTunes and many other fine distributors.