“Omer Klein shows with his speed, touch, refinement and creativity, that he belongs
to the small group of master pianists” - Süddeutsche Zeitung

The music of pianist and composer Omer Klein is “borderless” (New York Times) in its
organic adaptation of highly diverse sources of inspiration, while Klein continuously
“swing mainstream jazz concepts into the future” (Time Out, New York). A prolific
performer and composer, Klein has released ten albums under his own name and over
100 original compositions.

As a soloist and band leader, he has performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Nice
Jazz Festival, the Jazz at Lincoln Center concert series, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Swing Hall Tokyo, the Elbphilharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Bremen Music
Festival, the Dresden Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Vienna
Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonic, and many other renowned concert halls.

Klein founded the Omer Klein Trio in 2013 with bassist Haggai Cohen Milo and drummer
Amir Bresler. The three musicians record Klein's compositions and tour extensively.
Their debut album, Fearless Friday (2015), was hailed as “one of the most rewarding
piano trio releases of recent years” (All About Jazz).

Klein produced five albums with Warner Music: Sleepwalkers (2017) is a trio
exploration of social issues in the information age, for which the Omer Klein Trio
received an ECHO Award in 2018. This was followed in 2019 by the album Radio
Mediteran. Analog synthesizers and percussion expanded the classic trio format,
creating “a very contemporary, progressive album full of fine grooves and strong
melodies” (Hamburger Abendblatt). “Personal Belongings” (2021), Klein's third album
for Warner Music, is an interwoven and touching solo piano/trio program.

The Alte Oper Frankfurt invited him as Artist in Residence for the 2024/2025 season. There he presented his new sextet, Omer Klein & The Poetics, among other projects, and was enthusiastically celebrated by audiences and the media alike.

In March 2026, he will release his first album with The Poetics and
present it on tour, in venues including the Main Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, the Konzerthaus Dortmund,
Bergson in Munich and more.

Since October 2025, Klein holds a professorship for jazz piano at the University of Music and Performing
Arts Munich.

In 2023, Klein experienced one of his creative highlights: he released his fourth album
on Warner, “Life & Fire,” on the occasion of his trio's 10th anniversary; composed and
performed the highly acclaimed score for the dance/theater piece 10 Odd Emotions at
Schauspiel Frankfurt; premiered his first symphonic project with the Babelsberg Film
Orchestra—a full-length program of his compositions arranged for trio and orchestra;
and released his fifth album for Warner, the intimate solo piano set Season Bright, at
the end of the year.

Klein's collaboration with mandolinist Avi Avital has been praised as a creative
meeting of two inspired minds. Part of the collaboration initially consisted of
improvised new movements for J. S. Bach; pieces by Klein that Avital performed.
Klein's other collaborations include his projects with the NDR and HR Big Bands, which
premiered in 2019 and 2024, and his duo project with classical percussionist Alexej
Gerassimez, which followed their joint artist residency at the Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern Festival in 2017.

In the fall of 2022, Omer Klein took to the stage of the Dortmund Concert Hall for the
first time with the Aris Quartet, performing pieces he had arranged and newly
composed for piano and string quartet.

Omer Klein has been nominated for the German
Jazz Award countless times, including in 2025 with his trio as Best Live Act of the Year.

Klein, “one of the most fascinating artists this country has produced in the last decade”
(City Mouse Tel Aviv), clearly and distinctly showcases his Israeli musical roots. He has
composed songs for iconic singers such as Arik Einstein, Gidi Gov, Yehudit Ravitz, and
Rons Kenan, with whom he has also performed on occasion. He is a regular presence
at the Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, “expanding the musical
horizons of this country” (Haaretz).

Omer Klein was born in Israel in 1982 and grew up in Netanya. He is the son of Israeli
parents and the grandchild of Tunisian-Libyan-Hungarian immigrants. Klein began
playing keyboard instruments at the age of five. At the age of 13, he focused on the
piano, while he had already been composing and improvising before that. He studied
at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts Givatayim before moving to the U.S. on a
scholarship to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston. There he studied jazz
piano with Danilo Perez and Ran Blake, while learning classical piano with Alexander
Korsantia. In 2005, Klein moved to New York, where he continued his studies privately
under the guidance of Fred Hersch.

Klein has been living in Germany since 2009. He is a Steinway artist.