Kayden Kelly has been playing the piano since he was five. He also was a violinist with the Santa Fe Youth Symphony program for seven years and the Sphinx Performance Academy for four. He has attended summer programs and festivals at the Mozarteum International “Young Excellence” Academy in Austria, Juilliard in Switzerland, Curtis Summerfest for piano and violin, PianoTexas, Amalfi Coast Festival and Perugia MusicFest. He has participated in masterclasses with Piotr Paleczny, Olga Kern, Anne-Marie McDermott, Dmitri Alexeev, Boris Slutsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Hung-Kuan Chen and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Kelly has performed in festivals in Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Austria, Costa Rica (for the Costa Rican Vice President), Italy and the U.S. He has been featured on local television and NPR’s From the Top. During summer 2023, he performed as a Festival Artist at Cliburn Junior Competition and Festival and participated in the Aspen Music Festival. Kelly is currently studying with Fabio Bidini at the Colburn Academy in Los Angeles.