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Biography

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.

Concertmaster of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra and  the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (2003–2015)

Awarded the Folkwang Prize for Music (2001)

Prizewinner at the International Chamber Music Competition in Thessaloniki

 

Since 2008, Skerdjano Keraj has taught violin, chamber music, and orchestral repertoire at the Aachen campus of the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT Köln). In 2015, he was appointed full Professor of Violin. He currently serves as Vice Dean and Deputy Director of the Aachen campus.

 

 

TEACHING

 

 

67 succesfull auditions

24 awards in competitions

His students are prizewinners at international competitions and have held positions as concertmasters, audition winners, principal players, section players, and academy members in renowned orchestras, including the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Philharmonic, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Geneva Camerata, and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan)

NEWS

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LuCa Amarandei

Concertmaster of the Young Romanian Philharmonic

MEDIA

Prof Skerdjano Keraj - Ivan Ruzhentzov - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo in C-Dur, KV373

CALENDAR

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Contact

Skerdjano KERAJ

skerdjano.keraj@freenet.de