Teaching Languages : German, English, Italian
At the age of 6, Skerdjano Keraj received his first violin lessons at the "Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja", a music boarding school for highly gifted children in Tirana. After passing his final artistic examinations with distinction in violin and chamber music with Prof. Andreas Reiner at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, he passed his concert examinations with Prof. Werner Scholz in Berlin and Rostock, also with distinction.
Keraj was awarded the Folkwang Prize for Music in 2001 and is a prize winner of the International Competition for Chamber Music in Thessaloniki.
From 2003 to 2015, he was concertmaster of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. As a guest concertmaster, he has performed with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and together with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart. In addition, engagements as soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster have taken him to other European countries.
He is a regular member of the jury at the International Violin Competition "Queen Sophie Charlotte" in Mirow, at the "Szymon Goldberg International Competition for Violin and Viola" in Meissen and at the International Competition for Violin and Viola in Stuttgart and at the International Competition for Violin Kloster Schöntal and follows as a guest professor invitations to master classes in Italy, France, Poland and Germany.
Since 2008 Skerdjano Keraj teaches violin, chamber music and orchestral literature at the Aachen location of the HfMT Cologne, since 2015 he holds a full professorship for violin. He is associate dean and deputy director at the Aachen location.
His students are prize winners of international competitions and have received engagements as concertmasters, auditioners, part leaders, tuttists and academy players in renowned orchestras.
6岁在阿尔巴尼亚首都地拉那一所为高天赋儿童设立的音乐学校“Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja”里开始学习小提琴。后考入埃森富克旺根艺术大学,在Andreas Reiner教授的指导下以优异成绩取得了小提琴演奏和室内乐演奏专业双学位。之后师从于在柏林和罗斯托克任教的Werner Scholz教授,获得了最高演奏家文凭。
2001年曾荣获富克旺根音乐奖,也是塞萨洛尼基国际室内乐比赛的获奖者。
2003至2015年,他的身影活跃在各大乐团。Keraj曾担任亚琛交响乐团和凯泽斯劳滕-法尔兹剧院的乐团首席。并作为客座首席与斯图加特爱乐乐团,科隆西德广播交响乐团,杜塞尔多夫交响乐团以及斯图加特西南广播交响乐团同台演出。此外,他还作为独奏家,室内乐演奏家在欧洲各地成功举办多场音乐会。
Keraj还是米罗Königin Sophie
Charlotte 国际小提琴比赛,迈森Szymon Goldberg 国际小提琴中提琴比赛以及Kloster Schöntal 国际小提琴比赛的固定评委。
他也应邀担任客座教授,在意大利法国德国波兰等地举办大师班活动。
2008年,他任职于科隆音乐与舞蹈学院亚琛校区,教授小提琴独奏,室内乐演奏,管弦乐文学,乐队片段。2015年起,担任小提琴全职教授,以及亚琛校区的副校长和副系主任。
他的学生也屡次在国际比赛中获奖。并考入著名的交响乐团中担任乐队首席,声部首席。