Edita Keglerová

Edita Keglerová is a Czech pianist and harpsichordist.

She studied piano and harpsichord at the Pilsen Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in the harpsichord class of Giedrė Lukšaitė-Mrázková. She further honed her performance skills in the masterclass of Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2007 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the field of Performance and Theory of Performance. She is a laureate of several international music competitions.

As a soloist or member of various chamber ensembles, she has performed on many important stages not only in Europe, but also in Japan, South Africa, the United States and New Zealand. She has worked with the Prague Baroque Ensemble, Hipocondria Ensemble, and Barocco sempre giovanne, among others. In 2004 she founded the ensemble Accento together with flutist Julia Brana. She has recorded for the Supraphon and ARTA labels, where together with the Hipocondria Ensemble she released a unique CD with a set of harpsichord concertos by J. A. Benda.

In 2003–2005 she taught at the JAMU in Brno. Currently she teaches at the Gymnasium and Music School of the Capital City of Prague and at the Prague Conservatory, where she leads harpsichord classes. Since 2006 she has been repeatedly invited as a harpsichord lecturer to the Summer School of Early Music in Prachatice. In the summer of 2015 she initiated the establishment of the zero year of Music Courses in Vrchlabí.

Upcoming concerts

Jakub Jan Ryba – Česká mše vánoční Jakub Jan Ryba – Česká mše vánoční Kostel sv. Jakuba Většího, Brtnice

About Edita Keglerová

Edita Keglerová is a Czech pianist and harpsichordist.

She studied piano and harpsichord at the Pilsen Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in the harpsichord class of Giedrė Lukšaitė-Mrázková. She further honed her performance skills in the masterclass of Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2007 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the field of Performance and Theory of Performance. She is a laureate of several international music competitions.

As a soloist or member of various chamber ensembles, she has performed on many important stages not only in Europe, but also in Japan, South Africa, the United States and New Zealand. She has worked with the Prague Baroque Ensemble, Hipocondria Ensemble, and Barocco sempre giovanne, among others. In 2004 she founded the ensemble Accento together with flutist Julia Brana. She has recorded for the Supraphon and ARTA labels, where together with the Hipocondria Ensemble she released a unique CD with a set of harpsichord concertos by J. A. Benda.

In 2003–2005 she taught at the JAMU in Brno. Currently she teaches at the Gymnasium and Music School of the Capital City of Prague and at the Prague Conservatory, where she leads harpsichord classes. Since 2006 she has been repeatedly invited as a harpsichord lecturer to the Summer School of Early Music in Prachatice. In the summer of 2015 she initiated the establishment of the zero year of Music Courses in Vrchlabí.

Genres: Classical

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