Skerdjano Keraj received his first violin lessons at the "Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja", a musical boarding school for highly talented children in Tirana, at the age of six. After passing the last artistic examinations in the subjects violin and chamber music with Professor Andreas Reiner, he passed the concert examination with Professor Werner Scholz in Berlin also with honors.
He is a laureate of the Folkwang Prize for Music 2001 and of the Thessaloniki International Chamber Music Competition. He has been concertmaster of the Sinfonieorchester Aachen and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and guest concertmaster of the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, WDR-Rundfunkorchester, Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker, SWR Stuttgart and many other orchestras.
As a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster he has toured Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and his homeland, Albania.
Since the winter semester 2008/09 he teaches violin and orchestral literature at the HfMT Cologne / Aachen; since October as a teacher. In addition, he is a member of the jury of the Queen Sophie Charlotte International Violin Competition in Mirow.
Skerdjano Keraj received his first violin lessons at the "Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja", a music boarding school for highly talented children in Tirana, at the age of six. After passing the final artistic examinations in the subjects violin and chamber music with Prof. Andreas Reiner, he passed the concert exam with Prof. Werner Scholz in Berlin also with honors.
He is ua Winner of the Folkwang Prize for Music 2001 and the International Chamber Music Competition in Thessaloniki. He was permanent concertmaster of the Sinfonieorchester Aachen and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and guest concertmaster with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the WDR-Rundfunkorchester, the Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker, the SWR Stuttgart and numerous other orchestras.
As a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster, he toured Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and not least his homeland Albania.
Since the winter semester 2008/09 he teaches violin and orchestral literature at the HfMT Cologne / Aachen; since October as a professor. In addition, he is a jury member of the international violin competition Queen Sophie Charlotte in Mirow.