Keith Collins
Early Music
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C. Keith Collins holds the first doctorate in historical bassoon from Indiana University's Early Music Institute. He teaches historical bassoon at the University of North Texas, and has also taught at Indiana University's Recorder Academy. Keith has recorded or performed with such groups as Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Publick Musick, Apollo's Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Chicago Opera Theater, and many others. He is a founding member of the shawm band Ensemble Lipzodes, which was a finalist in Early Music America's Medieval/Renaissance Competition. Keith is the former music specialist at Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, Indiana. He also enjoys playing the music of his native Appalachia: banjo, dulcimer, and fasola (shape-note singing).
