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The pianist and conductor Klaus Simon was born in Überlingen am Bodensee and studied Music, German and Geography in Freiburg. He was a piano pupil of Michael Leuschner and participated in master-courses with Aloys Kontarsky (piano) and Hans Zender and Johannes Kalitzke (conducting). He founded and is the artistic director of the Holst Sinfonietta and the Young Opera Company, with both of which he has dedicated himself particularly to music of the twentieth century. He initiated and led in Freiburg a series of Lieder recitals and as an accompanist combines standard repertoire with less frequently heard works, including songs by Schoenberg, Pfitzner, Korngold, Rihm, Hindemith, Bridge, Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Crumb and Argento.
His work for Naxos includes the complete songs of Pfitzner and of Korngold (in preparation), chamber works by Schwantner, and I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I saw the Sky (Naxos 8.669003–04) by John Adams and for cpo he has recorded Korngold’s last stage work, Die Stumme Serenade. Since 2007 Klaus Simon has worked as an arranger with Universal Edition/Wien. His editions of Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 and Schoenberg’s orchestral songs Op. 8, for chamber orchestra have been played widely throughout the world.