Since 2002 he has been working in Dresden as a freelance composer and music journalist.[3] He regularly writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung,[4] the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the specialist magazine Positionen [
de]. From 2001 to 2003 Keuk was the managing director of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 1992 he has been on the board of the International Allan Pettersson Society and was chairman of the
Dresdner Kammerchor[5] until 2018.
On the occasion of Dresden's 800th anniversary, Keuk was commissioned by the city of Dresden and the
Dresden Philharmonic to compose the orchestral work Mehr Licht!, which was premiered in May 2006 in a cycle concert of the orchestra.[7]
Compositions
Stage music
DR. OX V5.1, Children opera for 7 singers and ensemble after a text by
Jules Verne,
libretto by Wolfgang Willaschek, 2000–2003, 1 October 2003, Schlosstheater Dresden
Orchestra and music ensemble
Gebet for speaker and orchestra after a text by
Georg Heym, 1992/93, 16 April 1993, Theater Halberstadt
Ein deutsches Kettenrondomassaker for
chamber orchestra, 1994/95,5 October 1996, Hochschule für Musik Dresden, cond.
Christian Münch
Marche Funèbre de la Pensée – Bruchstücke vom Schauen und Hören for 11 brass instruments and percussion, 1997, premiered 6 May 1998, Hochschule für Musik Dresden
Ultimatum for large orchestra, 1998, premiere 13 May 2001,
Semperoper Dresden
TIME BLAST for clarinet, horn and cello solo and large orchestra, 2012, premiere: 2 November 2012, Landesjugendorchester Sachsen, cond. Milko Kersten
Doppelkonzert für 2 Violinen und Orchester, 2012/13, 21 March 2013, Freiberg,
Duo Gelland (violin), Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, cond.
Jan Michael Horstmann
Vocal musik
Den Wolken II – marana sati for soprano, mezzo-soprano and harpsichord after a text von Georg Heym, 1994, 27 April 1994, Hochschule für Musik Dresden
Monolog des verrückten Mastodons for women's choir after a text by
Paul Scheerbart, 2002, UA on the occasion of the German Choir competition 6 May 2002,
Schloss Osnabrück [
de]
Psalm-Motette Erforsche mich Gott for eight-part mixed choir after
Psalm 139, 2004, 6 March 2005, Evangelische Kirche
Wilthen
morgen.metamorphosen for three vocal parts, text by Sabine Bergk, 2007/08, 31 March 2008
Herz-Jesu-Kirche (München) [
de]
Vineta-Exerzitien for mixed choir, 17 January 2009, Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Dresdner Kammerchor, conduct.
Hans-Christoph Rademann[8]
Ein Tropfen, ein Schluck in der Höhe (text
Hans Thill [
de]) for alto, tenor, choir and orchestra, 8 December 2013, Dresden, Singakademie Dresden, conduct. Ekkehard Klemm
Damyata for 3 choirs a cappella, 9 May 2014, Dresden, Taipeh Male Choir, Dresdner Kammerchor, Chor des Vitzthum-Gymnasiums Dresden, cond. Olaf Katzer[9]
Chamber music
Soliloquy für Querflöte Solo, 1992, UA 30 Mai 1992, Blankenburg
Licht-Blicke, Novellen für 3 Querflöten, 1993, 28 January 1995 Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik Dresden
Als wenn die Welt aus Lego wär, Orgelmusik in einem Satz, 1994, 31 August 1994 Dominikanerkirche
Münster,
Philipp Maintz (organ)
Distraire für Violine Solo, 1994/96, 11 December 1996, Dresden
...Nicht auslöschen...Ströme...nicht ertränken..., Sonata for viola and trombone, 1997, 22 June 1998
Teplice
Flash for clarinet solo, 1998, premiere 24 November 1999 Hochschule für Musik Dresden, published as Composition in Entweder/Oder Nr. 75, ed. by
Uwe Warnke [
de]