

Artist
Since the beginning of 2017, Esther Klever has been playing in the Rundfunktanzorchester, Ehrenfeld, the show orchestra of ZDF Magazin Royal with Jan Böhmermann.
Esther Klever is one of Germany's most renowned pop artists, captivating audiences with her professional playing and passion. She is distinguished not only by her technical brilliance on her instrument, but also by her attention to detail, her musicality, and her professionalism in planning and organization.
Born in Germany in 1984, the daughter of a piano teacher began gaining her first musical experiences on the piano at the age of four. Influenced by classical and romantic music, she then turned to jazz and pop at the age of ten and began her training on the alto and baritone saxophone.
Her time at the State Music High School in Rhineland-Palatinate allowed her to actively participate in various band projects, concert tours and workshops from a young age, which were intended to promote her talent and train her skills.
She won prizes at the state and federal levels in competitions such as "Jugend Musiziert" and "Jugend Jazzt".
In 2003, she finally graduated from high school with a major in music, before beginning preparations for studies at the music academy at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory.
At that time she was already a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Youth Jazz Orchestra and would later also join this renowned youth orchestra in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 2004, she passed her entrance exams at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where she then studied before deciding to attend ArtEZ in Arnhem, Netherlands. There, she graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Music degree under the tutelage of Jörg Kaufmann, a lecturer and former member of the WDR & NDR Big Band, and the experimental tenor saxophonist Franz Vermeerssen.
In 2011, the young artist made Cologne, a music metropolis, her adopted home, where she worked primarily in the pop and cover scene as an event performer until early 2017. "My enthusiasm for popular music came very late, but I love giving modern tracks my individual touch and awakening people's enthusiasm for live music and genuine craftsmanship through my improvisation."



