American soprano Heather Klein follows her passion of “painting pictures” with her voice – interpreting and inhabiting characters, and bringing stories to life.
Heather is a classically trained soprano in San Francisco, and performs Opera, Yiddish classical song, theater and folk music, as well as other styles. For the past decade, she has performed across the U.S., Canada and Europe, as a soloist and as part of various musical groups and opera companies. However, Klein has focused on a lesser known genre: Yiddish classical song.
Highlights include singing with mentors Three Yiddish Divas, and touring with the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene alongside, among others, Zalmen Mlotek and Claire Barry of the Barry sisters, as well as working on new music.
Produced and researched, she has released two Yiddish musical albums, including, most recently, “Shifreles Portret: A Yiddish Art Song Project” with her “Inextinguishable Trio.” Some songs from the album are influenced by Klein’s recent residency in Budapest where she researched sheet music, collaborated in concert with Hungarian musicians and had her residency performance at the Balint Haz JCC on display for several weeks in a notable museum in Budapest.
Heather performed Yiddish art song in New York City at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for the last 4 years in concert, and as a part of Sidney Krum Young Artist Series. For the last three years, Klein has been invited back to create her own program with colleagues. In addition, she played the role of Rosie in the world-premiere of "Ravensbruek Project," a cabaret opera based on the Holocaust, before a sold-out theater in Boston.
This year she has been performing throughout the San Francisco Bay area to promote her new album, work on her upcoming projects, Shabes Zingt, her yearly charitable program: Hungry for Yiddish, and as usual, is always looking to discover forgotten and unknown songs, with the hope of one day performing them.
Klein is looking forward to an exciting year premiering her new show about her grandmother's immigrant journey Shanghai Angel written and composed by Klein and the music arranged by Joshua Horowitz. The show will premiere in February 2017. She will also be producing the 2nd Annual Yiddish Las Vegas Festival in March 2017.
Most recently Heather premiered the title roles in "Lilith the Night Demon" a modern Yiddish/English Opera, as well as the west coast premiere of Di Megile of Itsik Manger. She recently premiered her other project: "Yiddish Spring" in honor of Yom HaShoah at the Contemporary Jewish Museum performing Yiddish songs with Veretski Pass, and working with her own Trio to expose a beautiful Yiddish song cycle: Mameloshn.
Heather earned her Bachelor's and Master's from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She most recently worked as a Cantorial Soloist and B'nei Mitzvah tutor at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, California and continues her cantorial work at Temple Sinai in Las Vegas.
Heather is a classically trained soprano in San Francisco, and performs Opera, Yiddish classical song, theater and folk music, as well as other styles. For the past decade, she has performed across the U.S., Canada and Europe, as a soloist and as part of various musical groups and opera companies. However, Klein has focused on a lesser known genre: Yiddish classical song.
Highlights include singing with mentors Three Yiddish Divas, and touring with the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene alongside, among others, Zalmen Mlotek and Claire Barry of the Barry sisters, as well as working on new music.
Produced and researched, she has released two Yiddish musical albums, including, most recently, “Shifreles Portret: A Yiddish Art Song Project” with her “Inextinguishable Trio.” Some songs from the album are influenced by Klein’s recent residency in Budapest where she researched sheet music, collaborated in concert with Hungarian musicians and had her residency performance at the Balint Haz JCC on display for several weeks in a notable museum in Budapest.
Heather performed Yiddish art song in New York City at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for the last 4 years in concert, and as a part of Sidney Krum Young Artist Series. For the last three years, Klein has been invited back to create her own program with colleagues. In addition, she played the role of Rosie in the world-premiere of "Ravensbruek Project," a cabaret opera based on the Holocaust, before a sold-out theater in Boston.
This year she has been performing throughout the San Francisco Bay area to promote her new album, work on her upcoming projects, Shabes Zingt, her yearly charitable program: Hungry for Yiddish, and as usual, is always looking to discover forgotten and unknown songs, with the hope of one day performing them.
Klein is looking forward to an exciting year premiering her new show about her grandmother's immigrant journey Shanghai Angel written and composed by Klein and the music arranged by Joshua Horowitz. The show will premiere in February 2017. She will also be producing the 2nd Annual Yiddish Las Vegas Festival in March 2017.
Most recently Heather premiered the title roles in "Lilith the Night Demon" a modern Yiddish/English Opera, as well as the west coast premiere of Di Megile of Itsik Manger. She recently premiered her other project: "Yiddish Spring" in honor of Yom HaShoah at the Contemporary Jewish Museum performing Yiddish songs with Veretski Pass, and working with her own Trio to expose a beautiful Yiddish song cycle: Mameloshn.
Heather earned her Bachelor's and Master's from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She most recently worked as a Cantorial Soloist and B'nei Mitzvah tutor at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, California and continues her cantorial work at Temple Sinai in Las Vegas.
