Join us for an Emerson/Harris Voice Masterclass with Guillermo Klein!
Guillermo Klein is a composer and pianist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in
1969, currently living in Upstate NY .
He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied
composition .
After graduating from Berklee, Klein moved to New York City. He led his own
ensemble which released several acclaimed albums and has been performing
for almost two decades at the Village Vanguard in NYC “Against the odds,
Guillermo Klein has held together Los Guachos, his multinational 11-piece big
band, for almost a quarter of a century. In those years, this Argentine-born
pianist and composer has moved across continents four times, and most of Los
Guachos’ members have ascended to prestigious careers of their own. But the
ensemble has remained intact, allowing Mr. Klein to compile a songbook unlike
any other in contemporary music: a travelogue as much as a repertoire,
influenced by old and new tango, American jazz, modernism and indie rock”
(Giovanni Russonello NY Times).
“Guillermo Klein has exerted a slippery yet profound influence on his generation
of composer-improvisers, without making much of a fuss” (Nate Chinen NPR)
He also collaborated with renowned musicians from the jazz community such as
Aaron Goldberg, Joshua Redman, Jorge Rossy, Rebecca Martin, Miguel Zenon,
and Wolfgang Muthspiel.
He has been commissioned by the HR Jazz Orchestra (Frankfurt ,Germany),
Orquesta de Jazz du Matosinhos (Porto , Portugal), UMO Jazz Orchestra
(Helsinki, Finland), Swiss Jazz Orchestra (Bern, Switzerland). MIT Wind
Ensemble (Massachusetts, USA) and Orquesta Filarmonica del Teatro Colon
(Buenos Aires , Argentina)
He teaches composition at the Jazz campus in Basel , Switzerland
The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported in part by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.
