Tobias Klein (*Saarbrücken, Germany, 1967) moved to Amsterdam in 1990 and studied  saxophone and bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with, among others, Jasper Blom and Harry Sparnaay. 
As a performing musician, his focus lies mainly on improvised music and contemporary jazz, enriched by his studies of contemporary composed music, live-electronics and techniques derived from African, Eastern European and Asian music. He currently (co-)leads the groups Spinifex, Lackritz, Maw Sit Sit and the duo Oguz Buyukberber/Tobias Klein.
Tobias composes for both contemporary jazz groups and for chamber music ensembles. His work as a composer is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
In 2010, he was awarded the North Sea Jazz Composition Commission. 
Tobias has toured or recorded with many great musicians such as Jasper Blom, Joost Buis, Oguz Buyukberber, Andrew Claes, Damien Cluzel, Esra Dalfidan, Benoît Delbecq, Marc Ducret, Jozef Dumoulin, Kristina Fuchs, Oene van Geel, Onno Govaert, Mark Haanstra, Sylvia de Hartog, Gerri Jaeger, Gijs Levelt, B.C. Manjunath, Lothar Ohlmeier, Timuçin Sahin, Emmanuel Scarpa, Chris Speed, Jasper Stadhouders, Raphael Vanoli and Teun Verbruggen.  

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