Biography

Composer Guillermo Klein was born in Buenos Aires in 1969. He graduated from Berklee College of Music, in Boston. There, he formed Big Van, an orchestra with which he recorded El minotauro. In 1994, he moved to New York, and with his renamed band Los Guachos, he recorded several albums, including the latest Filtros. He returned to Buenos Aires in 2000, formed a nine-piece group and recorded Una nave, one of the best jazz albums of 2005, according to the New York Times. In 2002, he moved to Barcelona, where, among other activities, he played in a piano duo with Jorge Rossy. Back in the country, the Buenos Aires Jazz 2008 commissioned him to pay tribute to Cuchi Leguizamón. Since then, he has collaborated with Liliana Herrero, Roxana Amed, Mariana Cincunegui, Babel Orquesta, El Diablo en la Boca, La Bomba de Tiempo, Real Book Ensamble, Richard Nant Quinteto and Fill My Mate. With his group Base de Nave (Martín Pantyrer, Juan Cruz de Urquiza, Richard Nant, Daniel Piazzolla, Matías Méndez) he has performed in Río Cuarto, Salta, Jujuy and at New York’s Village Vanguard. He appears as an arranger and composer on the albums Alma adentro, by Miguel Zenon, and Bienestan, by Aaron Goldberg. He led the Big Band de Girona, the Jazz Institut of Berlin (JIB) Big Band, the Metropole Orchestra of Amsterdam, the UMO of Finland, the MIT Wind Ensemble of Boston, the Jazz Schule of Basel, all of which commissioned him to compose pieces for them. He has collaborated with the Boris Big Band, led by Daniel Camelo.