It is my mission to make, teach, and sell original music; to connect hearts and broaden perspectives through collaborative experimentation in sound, with a continued commitment to providing a safe forum for creative research, concentration, and honest expression.
Ofir Klemperer (born in Israel 1982) makes melodic music using analogue synthesis, classical, jazz, punk-rock instrumentation, and collaborative processes focused on the empowerment of individual’s perspectives.
He explores the ways timbre and sound expression are impacted by social environments.
Some of the collaborators that played Klemperer’s music are Ensemble VIM, Ilan Volkov and Klanforum Wien, Zsolt Nagy and Israel Contemporary Players, Tettix Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Bas Weigers and Asko | Schoenberg Ensemble, Ensemble Modelo62, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Rosa Ensemble, and Orkest de Ereprijs.
His compositions have been featured in global music festivals such as Musikprotokol in Graz, Austria ; Südtirol Jazz in Bolzano, Italy ; MATA Festival in NYC ; Israel Music Festival in Tel Aviv, as well as in Atlanta, Athens (Greece), Chicago, Amsterdam , Belgrade, Brussels, and Sao Paolo.
Organizations and ensembles such as Ensemble VIM, Berliner Philharmoniker, Amsterdam Orgelpark, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Turner’s Adult Swim, and others have commissioned his music.
Klemperer’s work was praised by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (“a controlled, fragile and delicate shape, wafting into the air from a motley assortment of instruments”), by Seen and Heard International (“the most shocking sequence of the evening…both sad and strangely touching”), and by the Wall Street Journal (“…energy of 1970s punk rock… its exacting, high energy interplay demanded clockwork precision.”)
His work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA), MacDowell Fellowship, residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and at Yucca Valley Material Lab.
Klemperer earned his Bachelor and Masters degrees in music composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, where he established his hybrid compositional approach with the assistance of Martijn Padding, Gilius van Bergijk, Corenlis de Bondt, and Yannis Kyriakides.
Since his relocation to the United States in 2013 he is active as a composer, instrumentalist, and ensemble director. Many ensembles were formed by Klemperer to play his music when he lived in Cincinnati OH, and Atlanta GA, before he moved with his family to Olympia WA. Nowadays he composes and arranges concert music, teaches piano and composition, and performs his own pieces with local and internationally recognized artists and thinkers.
Klemperer self-published decades of multi-channel recordings of song demos, ensemble workshops and live performances.
