Leonie Klein

Leonie Klein has dedicated herself to contemporary music and is active both as a soloist and in the ensemble. Born in 1993, the percussionist was a preschooler at the University of Music Karlsruhe, where she completed a master’s degree in percussion under Isao Nakamura as well as a master’s degree in music journalism. She also completed the companion course of study in Applied Cultural Studies at the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) Karlsruhe.

Currently she is doing her doctorate in the field of contemporary music for percussion solo. Her musical development was significantly influenced by her collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann, Vinko Globokar, Nicolaus A. Huber, Dieter Schnebel and Péter Eötvös. In 2018, her debut CD »gathering thunders« was released. Leonie Klein was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and was awarded the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize for Contemporary Music Performers in 2020. 2022 she was admitted to the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg as a scholarship holder.

Leonie Klein is a Yamaha Artist. After working for several years as a music editor at SWR2, she is a substitute professor in percussion at the University of Music Karlsruhe in the winter semester 2023/24. She also works as a music journalist for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, among others.