Arne Klein

Arne Klein was born in 1960 and began playing the cello when he was six. Like many children, he played as a hobby, without great ambition. Only shortly before graduating from secondary school did the wish to make more of this hobby arise. Arne Klein studied with Wolfgang Mehlhorn at the Hamburg Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 1990. One year before, he had already been engaged by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Even during his student days, but also within orchestral life, Arne Klein has always enjoyed playing in smaller chamber music formations. Working on chamber music works independently is a welcome change from orchestral playing. The sensitive communication demanded of the individual musicians as they