Willi Kellers*

Willi Kellers is a drummer and theatre composer. He studied music at the universities of Münster and Detmold and is considered one of the finest jazz drummers in Europe. He regularly collaborates with Phil Minton, Peter Brötzmann, Willem Breuker, Frank Wright, Albert Mangelsdorff, Manfred Schoof, Keith Tippett, and Julie Driscoll, and has performed at all major European festivals as well as many worldwide.

For Dimiter Gotscheff, Kellers composed music for over 30 stage productions. He has also written music for productions by Heiner Müller, Waechter, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Färberböck, George Tabori, and multiple times for Thorsten Lensing, including Sweeney Agonistes, Snow White, Run to the Sea. An Idyll, and The Cherry Orchard. Dancing Idiots is his fifth collaboration with Thorsten Lensing.