Klaus Janek

Klaus Janek is a double bassist and composer born in Bolzano in 1969 and based in Berlin. He studied classical double bass in Venice and works across free improvisation, contemporary composition and electronics, playing both acoustic and processed contrabass, and he writes music for dance theatre and stage productions. Klaus Janek played in Peter Kowald's Ort Ensemble in Wuppertal and in Bill Dixon's Vision Festival Ensemble in New York, and he has worked with Toshinori Kondo, Michael Zerang, Roger Turner and Günther "Baby" Sommer.