His teachers have included Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Don Freund, Jennifer Higdon, Ezra Laderman, Ned Rorem, and Joseph Schwantner.
[6] In 2005, Kellogg won a commission from the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a work celebrating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, which he titled Ben.
In celebration of the orchestra's 90th anniversary, in 2016 he received a commission from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic composing Halcyon Skies from Katharine Lee Bates's original poem America the Beautiful.
[7] Kellogg received a performance from the Colorado Symphony Orchestra of Refracted Skies, commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Denver Art Museum's new addition.
Writing the next day for KC Studio Magazine, reviewer Libby Hansen noted "For The Golden Spike, Kellogg explored the power, glory, and pain of rampant, unhindered progress, bringing out these elements in the race for a transcontinental railway, which was completed (May 10,) 1869."