The Mind Behind The Music
Producer, Composer, Arranger, Conductor ~ Phillip Keveren
Phillip conducts the LSO during our Abbey Road Studios album sessions
April 9, 2026
📸 Ben Ealovega
For nearly three years, Phillip Keveren has lived with this album.
He arranged it.
Orchestrated it.
Edited it.
Revised it.
Conducted it.
This man wears so many hats we're considering building him a closet for all of them! 😅
On the morning of April 9, he brought a suitcase containing more than 2,000 pages of music into the hotel lobby.
It was so heavy Kirstin had to help him lift it. 😉
A short time later, those pages were spread across music stands throughout Studio One as members of the London Symphony Orchestra began to arrive.
For months, we'd seen the music on computer screens and printed mockups. We practiced along with the audio mockups.
Now it was becoming real.
📸 Ken Myers, Michael Upton, Ben Ealovega
By the end of the day, those thousands of pages had become 52 minutes of music.
And Phillip stood in the middle of it all, conducting the orchestra he had spent years preparing to lead.
📸 Ben Ealovega
But perhaps a little background on Phillip before I share how we met;
After graduating as valedictorian of his high school class, Phillip went on to earn his Bachelor of Music in Composition from California State University, Northridge, and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Southern California.
His work is featured in numerous instrumental recordings, church choral, educational piano and Christian artist releases and his vasts discography displays a "who's who" in the music world. Working with/for artists such as Sandi Patty, Travis Cottrell, The Piano Guys, Kathie Lee Gifford and many, many others.
Phillip is co-author, major composer and orchestrator of the internationally acclaimed Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, a complete method of study for young students. His unique piano arrangements are also featured in The Phillip Keveren Series (Hal Leonard Publishing).
Our album will represent his 5th time working with the London Symphony.
The very first time we directly worked with Phillip was in 2019. Frances had asked me to perform a solo with her at her Portraits of White Christmas show and commissioned that piece from Phillip. We loved it so much that he was the person we wanted to work with for Midwinter's Gift. We loved THAT so much that it drove us right down to, well...Abbey Road...
Whenever we perform his arrangements our audiences are simply transfixed by their beauty, their soulfulness, their reflection. How do we know? They make sure to tell us after our performances..."it transported me to another place" some will say…one audience member recently offered, “your music is a gift that offers hope and comfort” and that we largely attribute to the incredible arrangements Phillip has provided us.
In fact, the day of our sessions, we had London Symphony members come up to us and tell us how incredible, fresh and interesting these arrangements were. What a compliment. What an honor for US.
Looking through a larger lens - he has not only provided us with excellent music, but a platform on which to offer them to the world. We couldn't be more grateful for his talent and his direction in our journey.
📸 Ben Ealovega
In the picture above, it was at the end of our London sessions - a long, but incredibly fulfilling day and right here, the three of us shared a special producer-to-artist moment.
Remembering the exhaustion, the emotion of what was shared and the surrealness of that moment...we hold this specific moment close to our hearts.
Now that we are a few months away from our trip and this experience, it almost seems like a dream. In fact, I suppose it HAS been a dream, hasn’t it? For 3+ years…a marathon of sorts…to achieve a long-held dream that brought us to moments that have felt like a dream. A dream within a dream, perhaps? Nevertheless…onward we move to Nashville in July where Phillip will once again take on the role as producer for this album that means so much…to all of us.
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