Martin Klein

Listening to Martin Klein alone- just the one man and one piano- is an extraordinary experience, a thrilling sense of participation on the innermost thoughts of a creative musician. The singer-songwriter and piano player has progressed from being an insider-tip to a small institution, since he has been playing solo shows in Vienna just with an old keyboard and his powerful voice. Endlessly inventive, no two plays of him ever seem quite the same. From broken rhythms to beautiful piano chords he has carved out a sophisticated niche of his very own. Martin Klein has a natural gift to tell a story through his music and his spectrum of vocal ability amazes. He doesn’t really seem to care about artistic pigeonholes and expectations.
Born in Innsbruck, Austria, Martin Klein took violin and cello lessons as a young boy.
After founding a string quartet with his sisters at the age of ten, he decided to become a musician. He began to compose his own music and teach himself piano. Later he moved to the Netherlands to drink good beer and to study with the blind pianist Bert van den Brink. After countless jazz and rock performances as a sideman, both in Austria and abroad he set out to sing his own songs.
Martin sounds are reminiscent of Jeff Buckley, Bruce Hornsby, Nick Cave, early Coldplay, Beethoven and the Austrian storytelling tradition