Briefly describe what a concert day involves for you. Good sleep, good and long enough warming up practise in the morning, nice lunch, a nap, coffee afterwards and a short re-warming on the instrument before the concert and a nice glass of wine or beer after the show (almost impossible to get all of this...)
The most inspiring composer: Bach.
The first piece of music you fell in love with: Bartók’s concerto for orchestra.
What’s the last book you read? "Die Molekül-Küche" (does not mean "Molekular-Küche"), forgot the author, I can warmly recommend it for foodies, it is about the physical and chemical aspects of cooking.
Which are your Desert Island Discs? Tom Waits: Closing times, Schubert Quintet with Alban Berg and Schiff, Schumann Quartet No 3 with Emerson, Frei Manuel Cardoso: Requiem (Tallis Scholars) etc...
BIOGRAPHY Andreas Klein was born in St. Wendel, Germany. He received his first trombone lessons from Joachim Lorek and subsequently from Werner Schrietter. After two years spent studying law, he began a course of study at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany, which he finished in 2001 at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He has studied with Branimir Slokar and Jonas Bylund, and also has had private lessons with Joseph Alessi (New York). He was a member of the Bundesjugendorchester (National Youth Orchestra of Germany), the RIAS-Jugendorchester und im Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
In 1996, Andreas Klein won a job as principal trombonist of the Düsseldorf Symphony. He moved to Berlin in 1999, where he has been principal trombonist of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Berlin since then. In 2001, he was a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Andreas is a member of the DSO brass quintet and the brass ensemble brass partout, which has recorded three CDs with the Swedish label BIS.
Andreas was a first-prize winner in the national competition Jugend musiziert and in the first International Trombone Competition in Aachen, Germany, in 1995. In 1993, his trombone quartet won the music award of the city of Leonberg. He won a fellowship from the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) Berlin in 1999, and was selected to perform in the Konzerte Junger Künstler (German Young Artists Concerts).
Andreas Klein has been principal trombonist of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2007. He is a guest professor at the Universität der Künste (University of Arts) in Berlin.
