Prof. Martin Klett

Martin Klett has made a name for himself as an extraordinarily versatile and versatile pianist. He can be experienced as a classical chamber musician, as a member of the Cuarteto SolTango, as a soloist with repertoire ranging from Bach to Crumb, as a harpsichordist with historically informed ensembles or in recitals that oscillate between classical music, tango and jazz. This stylistic flexibility is also reflected in his discography: since the beginning of his career, he has contributed to 14 albums, including chamber music recordings with the Armida Quartet, Sebastian Manz, Mark Schumann and Charles-Antoine Dufot as well as several recordings with the Cuarteto SolTango.

On three solo albums to date, Martin Klett has presented a wide variety of musical specialisms. The centrepiece of his discography is the album ‘Lamento’, on which he juxtaposes Bach's concerti for piano and strings with various tangos by Pugliese and Salgán. He is currently focussing increasingly on harpsichord playing and has collaborated with artists such as Maurice Steger, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Arabella Steinbacher and Magali Mosnier as well as the Chaarts Chamber Artists and the Kammerakademie Potsdam.

Other highlights of the current concert season include his debuts at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Bath Mozartfest. In 2008, Martin Klett founded the Cuarteto SolTango, with which he focusses on the traditional Argentine tango of the time before Astor Piazzolla. This is where his passion for tango meets his skills as an arranger and an international ensemble that has set itself the task of performing the tango of the golden era with chamber music esprit.

Martin Klett received his training from his long-time mentor Prof. Konrad Elser at the Lübeck University of Music and received further formative impulses from Leon Fleisher, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Pascal Devoyon, as a harpsichordist from Christine Schornsheim, Richard Egarr and Avinoam Shalev and as a chamber musician from Stephen Isserlis, Gerhard Schulz and many other important musical personalities. His teaching activities to date have taken him to the music academies in Leipzig, Detmold, Karlsruhe and Hanover as well as to masterclasses in Romania and Indonesia. Since April 2025, he has been teaching as a professor of chamber music with a focus on piano chamber music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.