Artistic and musical director, musician and artist Peter Keelan has a wealth of experience across the arts spectrum. He has directed, performed and composed in a diverse array of projects and productions, from experimental to world fusion, contemporary collaborative work with dance, circus and theatre, to street theatre.

His principal musical instrument is the pan-flute though he plays a variety of other flutes, didgeridoo, berimbau, mouthbows, percussion, drums and his original and experimental 'new' musical instruments.

It is from his early pursuits in the visuals arts, as a painter and sculptor that his interest in experimental musical instrument making began. He has developed numerous original musical instruments, as well as experimenting to create an orchestra of instruments made of plumbing and electrical pipe with Mark Cain in the group AC-PVC.

As a contemporary composer and musical director he has credits in the area of film soundtracks, visual arts collaborations, music theatre, community music and arts projects, public art installation and a number of his own recordings.

He has a strong interest and respect for traditional cultures from around the world, having completed a two year Australia Council Fellowship to travel to, and collaborate with, musicians in Malawi, Rumania, Bolivia and the Solomon Islands.

Presently he working with the extraordinary Narasirato Pan Pipers from the Solomon Islands, and continuing with a project which is an extension of the Fellowship, the Pan People Project, to bring together the world's great traditional and contemporary pan pipe traditions and musicians for the inaugural World Festival of Pan Pipe.