Sabine Klein

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Sabine Klein received a BFA in Piano Performance with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University where she studied piano with Natasha Snitkovsky and violin with Saul Bitran. She completed her studies with the degrees MFA and Zweite Diplomprüfung in Chamber Music Performance from the University for the Arts Mozarteum Salzburg, writing her thesis on color-hearing synesthesia. Her teachers included Erika Frieser, Aloys Kontarsky and members of the Hagen Quartet.

Prior to coming to University of the Pacific as collaborative pianist, Klein was employed by the Norwegian National Opera Oslo as repetiteur, member of the orchestra and soloist/chamber musician for smaller touring ensembles. She also taught at the Steiner School Nordstrand, Oslo.

Klein has appeared as chamber musician and recitalist on WQUED FM Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Concert Society recital series, the Norwegian National Opera’s chamber music series and in various venues across Northern and Eastern Spain, as well as in Germany, Austria, Sweden and the U.S. Locally, she has served as pianist for the Townsend Opera Players, Stockton Symphony, Stockton Opera Guild and Stockton Chorale. Sabine Klein also enjoys playing viola and is a member of the Folsom Lake Symphony.

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In addition to serving on the faculty at University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, Sabine Klein has been engaged in various roles as a collaborative and/or orchestral pianist with the Stockton Symphony, Stockton Chorale, Stockton Opera Guild and Townsend Opera in Modesto. She also enjoys playing viola and joined the Folsom Lake Symphony in 2020.

Klein received her bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University with University and College of Fine Arts honors. She studied piano with Natasha Snitkovsky and violin with Saul Bitran, first violinist with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. She continued her studies in piano performance with Aloys Kontarsky at the Hochschule fur Musik Cologne, Germany. After transferring to the University for the Arts Mozarteum Salzburg, she earned a master’s degree and the degree of  Zweite Diplomprüfung in piano and chamber music performance with a thesis on color-hearing synesthesia. Principal teachers at the Mozarteum were Erika Frieser, Andor Losonczy and members of the Hagen Quartet.

During her time as a graduate student, Klein was chosen to participate in master classes with Andrej Gavrilov and Vitaly Margulis. She was an active performer in several of Peter Feuchtwanger’s interpretation classes and took part in his workshops on ergonomic approaches to piano technique. She taught piano and chamber music privately and served as a substitute player for the New World Symphony.

After graduation, Klein worked at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo as a repetiteur, member of the orchestra and soloist/chamber musician for smaller touring ensembles. At the main house, she performed orchestral soli in many of the prominent ballet works and served as harpsichordist in Baroque ensembles performing on the Norwegian National Opera’s chamber music series. In addition, she taught at the Steiner School Nordstrand, Oslo.

A winner of the Pittsburgh Concerts Society’s Major Artist Auditions, Klein appeared in a recital on WQED FM Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Concert Society Recital Series and at other events. As a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, she has toured Spain and performed in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway and the U.S.