Guillermo Klein (born 1969) is an Argentine

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and composer. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1994, and throughout the 1990s held a residency at Smalls, a jazz club in

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. Known for his highly original harmonic and stylistic concepts, Klein has garnered much respect from the jazz community. He spent most of the 2000s in

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and

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, though he still played in the

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. He was commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble to write his first work for

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, ''Solar Return Suite'', which was premiered on May 12, 2006. Klein has made yearly appearances with his band, Los Guachos, at the Village Vanguard since 2007. In 2008, he was a member of the jazz faculty at

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(''Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco''), the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country, in San Sebastián.

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1970 births Living people Argentine composers Berklee College of Music alumni Argentine people of German descent Candid Records artists Place of birth missing (living people) Argentine jazz pianists 21st-century pianists Sunnyside Records artists {{Argentina-composer-stub