Portfolio

A selection of projects showing the diverse activities

Ensemble Lumen

In 2017 Samuel founded the Ensemble Lumen to create a unique concert for the Thuringian Department in Berlin for their traditional Christmas concert, which in that year should appeal to all major religions as a festival of light. In an chamber-orchestra size the goal is to continue the work of outstanding and unique programmes that […]

CD: Norie Mukai & Samuel T. Klemke – Pavane

CD-Project with Japanese flutist Norie Mukai: Claude Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Gabriel Faure: Sicilienne Manuel M. Ponce: Estrellita Franz Schubert: Ständchen Maurice Ravel: Piece en forme de Habanera Gabriel Faure: Pavane G. F. Händel: Aria „Lascia ch’io pianga“ Gottfried H. Stölzel: Aria „Bist du bei […]

CD: Samuel T. Klemke – Die andere Saite

This CD contains a lovely collection of guitar music recorded during my postgrad studies in Weimar. 1. Carlo Domeniconi (1941): Koyunbaba 2. Fernando Sor (1778-1839): Sicilienne & Marche op. 33 No. 3 3. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Allemande BWV 996 4. Fernando Sor (1778-1839): Studio No. 6 op. 6 5. Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909): Marieta 6. […]

CD: Guitar Duo Klemke – Danza Española

The debut-CD by the Guitar Duo Klemke with Spanish music from different centuries: Manuel de Falla 1876-1946 Danza Española No. 1 (La Vie Brève) Isaac Albéniz 1860-1909 – Córdoba (Cantos de España Opus 232/4) – Castilla (Suite Española No. 7) Francisco Tárrega 1852-1909 (Voc. 1) Julio Salvador Sagreras 1879-1942 (Voc. 2) – Recuerdos de la […]

CD: Bach – Sor – Henze

In 2003 after passing my degree concert at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar I decided to record this programme onto CD: J. S. Bach: Suite BWV 997 F. Sor: Fantasia op. 7 H. W. Henze: Royal Winter Music I   the CD can be directly ordered from me.

Guitar Duo Klemke: Concert Exam

This is the trailer Video to our Live-DVD recorded during our final concert exam at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, featuring music by Vivaldi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti etc.

ART!stik Labor

Trailer for the project „ART!stik Labor“, a performance with artistry and avantgarde music. Filmed during the premiere in August 2008 in Volkenroda / Thuringia / Germany. A cooperation of Ensemble Marges with the Compagnie Aquanaut. Last performance during Sounding D of the Netwerk Neue Musik in September 2010 in Eisenach/Germany. Can still be booked.

James Bond 007 – on classical guitar

The main title music to this film series inspired me to this fun video, full of little hints and jokes to discover.  

Pernambuco: Sons de Carrilhoes

This Video was recorded in January 2011 in Ahmedabad / India:

Silent Movie: Raskolnikow

With the Ensemble Marges, Samuel performs composed and improvised music for silent Movies. In this case it is an improvisation for the more than 2 hours-long film Raskolnikow by Robert Wiene, performed as the opener of the festival „Solo fuer Licht“ in Leipzig and for Slovenska Kinoteka in Ljubljana.

Guitar Duo Klemke

Since his childhood Samuel is performing with his sister Laura. While playing music, they understand each other without the need of visual contact and thus create lively performances out of the moment. Both of them graduated from the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar with the Concert Exam in Chambermusic under the tutelage of […]

Silent Movie: The Adventures of Prince Ahmed

„The Adventures of Prince Ahmed“ is the first feature-length animation movie in history. It has a very special charme telling the story of Prince Ahmed and his princess with shadows in front of colourful backgrounds. We asked 5 composers to contribute music for each of the 5 parts of the movie, which worked out astonishingly […]

voz y guitarra

In 2008 Samuel startet performing with the Spanish soprano Natasha Lopez. Their repertoire comprises mainly Spanish and Latin-American music, but also pieces by Schubert, Bach-Gounod and others.

Ensemble Marges

As one of the founding members Samuel is performing with this young and ambitious vanguard Ensemble since it’s creation in 2005. One of their focuses is the music of young composers. With this ensemble Samuel also was invited repeatedly to form part of the jury in composition competitions. They offer concert-programmes, vanguard music for silent-movies […]