Direct dialogue
Martin Klett is the new professor of chamber music with a focus on piano chamber music
The Department of Piano is growing: Martin Klett will become the new professor of chamber music with a focus on piano chamber music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar on 1 April 2025. This Thursday, 27 March, he received his certificate of appointment from the hands of university president Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig.
‘Chamber music education, networking and musical collaboration are of central importance at our university,’ emphasises the director of the Department of Piano, Prof. Michail Lifits.
‘We are all the more pleased to have found an experienced, highly committed musician and inspiring artist in Martin Klett for this important task. His captivating teaching style will inspire and motivate our students. We look forward to many exciting projects and musical experiences.’
‘I am looking forward to the wonderful task of mentoring the students of the University of Music Weimar in the most beautiful of all classical music genres – chamber music,’ says the designated professor Martin Klett.
‘After all, few things bring us closer to true listening than this direct dialogue between the musicians. I would like to bring my own curiosity to my work with students and colleagues, exploring the many facets of chamber music and its potential for today's cultural landscape with great openness.’
Martin Klett has made a name for himself as an exceptionally 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 alternate between classical, tango and jazz.
This stylistic flexibility is also reflected in his discography: since the beginning of his career, he has appeared on 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.
Martin Klett has released three solo albums to date, each showcasing a different musical focus. The centrepiece of his discography is the album ‘Lamento’, on which he juxtaposes concertos by Bach for piano and strings with various tangos by Pugliese and Salgán.
He is currently increasingly focusing on playing the harpsichord and has worked 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.
Further highlights of the current concert season include his debuts at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Bath Mozartfest. In 2008, Martin Klett founded the Cuarteto SolTango, with which he concentrates on the traditional Tango Argentino of the time before Astor Piazzolla.
Here, his passion for tango meets his skills as an arranger and an international ensemble that has made it its mission to present the tango of the Golden Era with the spirit of chamber music.
Martin Klett received his training from his long-standing mentor Prof. Konrad Elser at the Music university in Lübeck 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 career to date has taken him to the Music universities of Leipzig, Detmold, Karlsruhe and Hannover, as well as to masterclasses in Romania and Indonesia.
[27 March 2025]