Matthias Keller (musician)

Matthias Keller ( born 1956 ) is a German music journalist.

Matthias Keller, who studied at the Munich Academy of Music piano, music education and church music, in addition to his artistic career as a writer and producer for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk active.

As a music journalist, he published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Fono Forum, Klassik Heute, opera world, Munich newspaper and the Berner Zeitung. Keller teaches at the State Academy of Music in Munich, history and aesthetics of film music. Regular workshops and seminars, among others, of the ZDF and the German Goethe Institute, led him up already to Ghana. His personal contacts with leading film composers such as Angelo Badalamenti, John Barry, Bruce Broughton, Patrick Doyle, Elliot Goldenthal, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, David Raksin, Ennio Morricone, Laurence Rosenthal, Enjott Schneider, Hans Zimmer, Don Davis, John Debney, Mark Mancina, inter alia, make him one of the best informed journalists in this area. On top of its broad knowledge of music, which in addition to organ and piano literature also areas such as vocal, ethnic, crossover and improvisation.

Matthias Keller is a staff member of the lexicon " contemporary composers " and jury member for the "Prize of the German Record Critics ' for film music. Since April 2000 he has been editor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk ( Bayern 4 Klassik ). The capacity as arranger and composer completed his musical spectrum.