Pianist Omer Klein returns to Bucharest

The famous Israeli pianist Omer Klein will offer an eclectic jazz show to the Bucharest public on November 13. The artist is being marked by the media as one of the most exciting and original musicians on the international scene.

Omer Klein has collaborated with renowned artists such as John Zorn, Lee Konitz, Jeff Ballard, Joel Frahm, Omer Avital, Johnathan Blake, Israeli music icons like Yehudit Ravitz, Eviatar Banai and Rona Kenan, and  many more.

Omer was born in 1982 in Israel, and began playing and composing music at the age of seven. As a teenager, Klein studied Jazz at the famous Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, and started playing concerts at age sixteen. In 2005, Klein moved to the US, where he attended the prestigious New England Conservatory. Klein’s private teacher at NEC was the Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Perez.

He later moved to New York, where he played at the Blue Note and Carnegie Hall, among other venues. He has released four CDs to great acclaim: Duet (2007), Introducing Omer Klein (2008), the solo piano album Heart Beats (2009), and Rockets on the Balcony (2010), his first release on John Zorn’s celebrated record label, Tzadik.

Omer is the winner of numerous awards, including the 1st prize at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Competition in Belgium. In 2011, Klein wrote the music for the play “Lemon Tree” at the Schauspielhaus Theater in Düsseldorf.

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The concert will take place at ArCub, on November13, starting hour 20.00. Tickets cost between RON 15.90 and RON 35 and can be bought online from bilete.arcub.ro and www.bilete.ro, but also from Posta Romana (Romanian Post), Inmedia stores, Germanos and Green Hours.

Oana Vasiliu