Keegan Bamford is a passionate and creative cellist who strives to reach emotional heights through his love for storytelling with music. An avid performer, Keegan is a contracted musician with several orchestras including the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Indiana Symphony Orchestra, Richmond (Indiana) Symphony Orchestra. He is frequently is asked to play with other orchestras in the Indiana-Illinois-Kentucky area. He is currently the assistant principal cellist in Richmond, Indiana. Aside from his numerous orchestral concerts, Keegan holds a passion for chamber music with recent engagements comprising of concerts at the Jacobs School of Music and in California.

Keegan’s main passion lies in teaching where he has an online and in person studio of young cellists that he teaches at a high level on a weekly basis and is actively sought out for his pedagogy. Over the summers, he teaches anywhere from 50 to 100 students back in California.

Earning his Bachelor’s at Fresno State with Dr. Thomas Loewenheim, Keegan then moved to Indiana to earn his Master’s degree at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University studying under the tutelage of Emilio Colón. Currently, Keegan is pursuing his doctoral degree at the Jacob’s School of Music.