Friday, February 24, 2023

Skerdjano Keraj


 




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在阿尔巴尼首都地拉那一所高天赋儿立的音乐学“Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja”学习小提琴。后考入埃森富克旺根艺术,在Andreas Reiner授的指下以优异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斯托克任Werner Scholz授,得了最高演奏家文凭

2001年曾荣获富克旺根音乐奖,也是塞洛尼基国际内乐获奖者。

20032015年,他的身影活在各大乐团Keraj曾担任琛交响乐团凯泽-法尔兹剧院的乐团首席。客座首席加特爱乐乐团,科隆西德广播交响乐团,杜塞尔多夫交响乐团以及斯加特西南广播交响乐团同台演出。此外,他为独奏家,室内乐演奏家在洲各地成功举办乐会

Keraj是米Königin Sophie Charlotte 国际小提琴比Szymon Goldberg  国际小提琴中提琴比以及Kloster Schöntal 国际小提琴比的固定委。

他也邀担任客座授,在意大利法等地举办班活

2008年,他任于科隆音乐与舞蹈琛校授小提琴奏,室内乐演奏,管弦乐队片段。2015年起,担任小提琴全职教授,以及琛校的副校和副系主任。

他的生也次在国际获奖考入著名的交响乐团中担任乐队首席,部首席