Biography Max E. Keller

Max E. Keller |

(b. 19 March 1947, Aarau).

Swiss composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist.

Mr. Keller studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber, Thomas Kessler, Helmut Lachenmann, and Hans Ulrich Lehmann, as well as German, history and musicology, on a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung.

Among his honours are the Kunstpreis from the Carl Heinrich Ernst-Kunststiftung in Winterthur (1997), the Berlin-Stipendium (1999) and a prize from the canton of Aargau (2001). He was also the representative of Switzerland at the Berlin Biennale in 1985.

As a pianist, he played free jazz and improvised music from 1966–73, featuring the piano with electric instruments, and has again worked as an improviser since 1985, with Trio Ampio and other ensembles.

He is also active in other positions. He has served as a music programmer at the Theater am Gleis in Winterthur since 1985 and served as president of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Neue Musik from 2007–10.

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