(Saskia) Max(well) Keller writes about classical music and queerness.
Keller’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, Out, Out Traveler, The Provincetown Independent, Provincetown Arts, Parterre Box, and Early Music America.
Raised on Cape Cod, Keller holds a B.A. in music and art history from Harvard, and an M.M. in musicology from the University of Edinburgh, where they wrote their master’s dissertation on the gendered history of the cello endpin. They are pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Currently Brooklyn-based, Keller writes the substack Poison Put to Sound, and is working on a book about the cello and the trans body. Their proudest achievement, however, is getting a driver’s license at the age of 24.
Photo by Sara Hinterlong
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Does It Matter How a Cello Is Held?
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This Is My Voice One Year on T
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Forever New
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Speech After the Removal of the Larynx
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The Future of Classical Music Is Queer
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Musical Nostalgia
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Three Hours
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Nosedive
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Love Wins
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Baby Crazy
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Divine Mother
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Ceaseless Mugging
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Park and "Bark"
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Critical Mass
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Venite adoremus
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Match Point
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X-Rated
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Prick and Choose
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Cloak and Dagger
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Kintsugi for Sugihara
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The Ephemeral Feminine
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Happy, happy solo woman
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Overachiever
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Special Ghost Star
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AI Art Gives Users Gender Euphoria – But It's Not Without Controversy
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Pomme Takes On the Big Apple
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We Have the Exclusive Pics From the Second Annual Fran Con
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Teneil Throssell Ascends to Greatness
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With Eurydice, the Met Doesn’t Look Back
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Seeing Fire in a Crowded Theater
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Melissa Ferrick Comes Out to Provincetown
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Painting in the Key of Blue, à la Judith Rothschild
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Chamber Music Festival Returns, Forte
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Mal Blum Returns to Live Music
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Berger and Motherwell: An Artistic Friendship
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Rite of Passage: Hawthorne’s ‘His First Voyage’
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Exploring Liveness in Early Music
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Early Music? There's an App for That
