András Keller

András Keller is the world-renowned violinist and founder of Keller Quartet. In the course of his concert tours, Keller has taken to the stages of nearly all prominent concert halls of the world, such as the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican in London, the Berliner Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York. Since 2007, he has been music director of Concerto Budapest. In addition to dozens of international awards, Keller was a recipient of the Liszt Prize in 1995 as a member of Keller Quartet, in 2012 he was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize and Meritorious Artist Honour, and then in 2021 his work was recognized with the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious state award in the field of Hungarian culture. In 2022 he received the Prima Primissima Prize in Music Art. For the last two decades, Keller has taught at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and has been a regular guest of Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. Between 2012 and 2015, he served as the head of the Chamber Music Department at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Since 2016, András Keller has taught at the violin faculty of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, which also appointed him as Béla Bartók International Chair in 2018.