Slava Kantcheff & Andreas Keller


Biography Slava Kantcheff & Andreas Keller



Slava Kantcheff
who grew up bilingually with German-French, appeared on German television at the age of seven and played Mozart's piano concerto KV 488 and Beethoven's piano concertos No. 3 and No. 5 on the big concert stage at the age of ten as a “child prodigy”.

This is followed by studies at the legendary “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique” in Paris. Concert tours have taken them to many stages around the world. Today she is one of the rare universal talents who have both the ability and the courage to be a “wanderer between the worlds” of the great music poles of that time. Her inspired piano playing, the experienced background as a concert pianist in harmony with Peter Hortonsguitaristic and compositional skills create new worlds of sound "together or in spite of" the unorthodox combination of instruments.

They are the first duo in the world to play together via satellites on the occasion of the world exhibition in Seville (Slava in Seville and Peter in Dresden at the same time).

In 1995 the congenial artist couple separated privately and continued to be celebrated on the concert stage as “ Symphonic Fingers ”. They play almost 4,000 concerts together and get married a second time in 2016. The press titled the musical carat of the two with headlines like: "Perfect symbiosis of guitar and grand piano - Fascinating soundscapes - Ravishing virtuosity - Fireworks of sounds - Brilliant finger talks - Triumph of the beautiful - Poetry reading in a thousand tones - Architects of world music - Finger acrobatics in harmony - Breathtaking music ... ”

The music of this extraordinary pair of musicians is the brand name for an island of acoustic magic - vacation for the ear - exciting joy of playing - in the spirit of the era, in which many old borders give way to a new feeling of togetherness.

Andreas Keller
is a passionate percussionist. He combined his passion with studying drums and percussion in America at the world-famous Musicians Institute (PIT) in Los Angeles, which he left with distinction. In Germany, Andreas Keller is a popular session musician in well-known recording studios, plays with national and international rock, pop and jazz greats: Al Di Meola, Bill Evans, Sigi Schwab and many more and has been the drummer of the “Spider Murphy Gang” for several years ".

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