From Brahms to Tango
A Diverse Inaugural Concert by Chamber Music Professor Martin Klett
Stylistic versatility is an artistic hallmark of musician and music educator Martin Klett. Since April 2025, he has been teaching as the new professor of chamber music with a focus on piano chamber music at the Weimar Music University—and will now perform his inaugural concert on Wednesday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Tickets are 15 euros (reduced rate 10 euros) and are available at the Weimar Tourist Information Office as well as at the box office.
At his inaugural concert, Martin Klett will perform alongside long-time musical collaborators. In 2008, he won the German Music Competition with clarinetist Sebastian Manz, followed by numerous joint concerts and CD recordings. He also collaborates regularly in chamber music with cellist Valentino Worlitzsch—an alumnus of the Weimar Music University and Principal cellist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.
Forming a duo and a trio, the three musicians will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s grand Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violoncello in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2, as well as Johannes Brahms’s late Trio for Clarinet, Violoncello, and Piano in A minor, Op. 114, in the first half of the concert. The second part of the debut concert is then dedicated to the tango: Together with his Cuarteto SolTango, founded in 2008, Martin Klett brings the music of the legendary “Orquestas Típicas” from the Golden Age of the tango to the stage.
The program features tangos by Aníbal Troilo, Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán, and many other composers. The ensemble members will serve as hosts for a program whose arrangements were all penned by Martin Klett.
Martin Klett has made a name for himself as an exceptionally versatile and adaptable pianist. He can be experienced as a classical chamber musician, as a member of the Cuarteto SolTango, as a soloist with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Crumb, as a harpsichordist with historically informed ensembles, or in recitals that oscillate between classical music, tango, and jazz.
Currently, Martin Klett is increasingly focusing on harpsichord performance and has collaborated in this context 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 season include guest appearances at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Istanbul Music Festival, the International Bach Festival Hamburg, and the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Martin Klett received his training from his long-time mentor, Prof. Konrad Elser, at the Lübeck Music university and was further influenced by Leon Fleisher, Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Pascal Devoyon; as a harpsichordist, by Christine Schornsheim, Richard Egarr, and Avinoam Shalev; and as a chamber musician, by Stephen Isserlis, Gerhard Schulz, and many other prominent musical figures.
[18 May 2026]