Johannes
Keller Musical direction

Johannes Keller grew up in eastern Switzerland. He studied early music, majoring in harpsichord with Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and completed a master's degree in basso continuo and ensemble conducting with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 2010 he was accepted into the Deutsche Bank Foundation's Akademie Musiktheater heute. Johannes Keller is co-founder of the basso continuo ensemble Il Profondo and the duo L'Istante and works regularly with Andrea Marcon and the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra (including at Theater Basel, the Frankfurt Opera and the Festival d'Aix en-Provence) as well as with the Venice Baroque Orchestra. He also collaborates with contemporary composers such as Vito Žuraj and Caspar Johannes Walter. He has made guest appearances with ensembles such as Ensemble Modern. He has also been a lecturer for voicing and tuning at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2013. From 2020 to 2024, he was a member of the SnF research project Vicentino21 under the direction of Martin Kirnbauer. He is conducting ‹Dido and Aeneas› at Theater Basel in the 24/25 season.