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Eva Klesse

Eva Klesse is a drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator whose quartet work complements large-ensemble, collaborative, and conservatory projects.

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Career Overview

About Eva Klesse

Klesse’s official biography traces jazz study in Weimar, Paris, Leipzig, and New York and identifies drums and composition as her central roles. It documents her quartet alongside work with the Julia Hülsmann Octet, TRILLMANN, and other European ensembles.[1]

The Eva Klesse Quartet’s artist catalog runs from Xenon and Obenland through Miniatures, Creatures and States, Songs Against Loneliness, and Stimmen. The sequence preserves a stable quartet identity while expanding through guests, text, and changing compositional ideas.[1][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, and composer

Eva Klesse Quartet

Klesse’s primary leader group joins her with Evgeny Ring, Philip Frischkorn, and Marc Muellbauer across six albums.[1][3]

Drummer

Julia Hülsmann Octet

The official biography identifies Klesse in Hülsmann’s octet and documents the ensemble’s ECM recording work.[1]

Professor and drummer

Hannover jazz-drums professorship

Appointed 2018

Klesse’s artist biography records her appointment as professor of jazz drumset at Hannover’s music, theater, and media university.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2014 · Enja Records

Xenon

Quartet leader, drummer, and composer

The quartet debut introduced Klesse’s long-running ensemble and its shared approach to her compositions.[1][3]

Release details

2022

Songs Against Loneliness

Quartet leader, drummer, and composer

The fifth quartet album adds guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel as a featured guest within Klesse’s established group.[1][3]

Release details

2024

Stimmen

Quartet leader, drummer, and composer

Stimmen extends the quartet’s catalog through a voice-centered concept while retaining its core instrumental personnel.[1][3]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Stream all six Eva Klesse Quartet albums with complete credits and release notes.

Official media archive

Watch Klesse’s quartet and collaborative performances through her artist-curated media page.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Eva Klesse. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, ensembles, and teaching history

    Eva Klesse

  2. [2] Official music, video, and photograph archive

    Eva Klesse

  3. [3] Quartet recording catalog

    Eva Klesse Quartet