Art Prize 2025 of the City of Zurich goes to Simone Keller
The pianist Simone Keller receives the Art Prize of the City of Zurich. The award for special cultural merit goes to the Institute for Incoherent Cinematography.
The prize is endowed with 50,000 francs. Simone Keller is a multidimensional pianist and mediator who is mainly at home in contemporary and classical music. However, she also transcends the boundaries to other musical styles and seeks to unite them, writes the City of Zurich. Through "her intensive national and international concert activities and the tireless initiation of musical and cultural mediation projects", she manages to bring music to the most remote and unusual places.
The Swiss pianist Simone Keller completed her training in Hans-Jürg Strub's concert class at the Zurich University of the Arts and was awarded 1st prize at the Landolt Competition, 2nd prize at the Hans Ninck Competition and the EMCY Chamber Music Prize at the European Classical Music Festival Ruhr, among others. As a soloist and chamber musician, she cultivates a very broad repertoire ranging from classical and modern music to experimental and interdisciplinary formats, her own concepts and educational projects, and performs extensively in Switzerland and many other countries in Europe, the USA and Asia.
