Sarah Klenes
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SARAH KLENES (Belgium, 1983) started studying music after a 3-year contract as a ballet dancer in the Royal Ballet of Flanders (Antwerp, BE). In 2004, she entered the jazz department in the Lemmens Instituut (Leuven, BE) where she studied with Natasha Roth, Dré Pallemaerts, Pierre Van Dormael, Bart Van Caeneghem. She goes on in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with David Linx, Kris Defoort, Christophe Wallemme, Ron Van Rossum from 2006 to 2008 and ends her master in the CNSM of Paris in June 2009 with Riccardo Del Fra, Glenn Ferris, François Théberge and Dré Pallemaerts.
Last May, she participated as a full-scholarship student at the Jazz and Creative Music Workshop at the Banff Centre (Canada) directed by Dave Douglas.
Today besides teaching at the academies of Aalst and Schaarbeek (BE), she is exploring music in its expression and improvised aspect in different projects: her trio OakTree (created in 2009 as à Dos d'âmes, compositions and personal arrangements), the jazz-folk-improvised 4tet Sallma's Moles with belgian bassplayer Lennart Heyndels, italian violonist Ludovica Burtone and latvian gitarist Matiss Cudars (created in May 2011) and the work-in-progress duo with the bassclarinetist Yann Lecollaire.
She can also be heard in the street-music-theater act Les Superluettes with Géraldine Cozier (Creation 2008 of the festival international de Chassepierre) with which whe will be touring as part of the Jeunesses Musicales porgrammation next year.
She'a also part of the SoundPaintingCollective Matters with dancers, musicians and actors (leaded by Augustin de Bellefroid) and Voices, a vocal group using the soundpainting language.
Finaly, she likes to combine all this being regularly the guest of punctual projects: the music-theater reading-performance « Petite Narration » (Wojtek Ziemilski)with Fabien Dariel (2011, Brussels), ciné-concerts on experimental short-films with Yann Lecollaire (2010,Brussels), the Tribute to Charles Mingus de Riccardo Del Fra (2009, Paris), le Mister Oz Bigband de Nancy (preview of Thomas Dutronc, 2008, Luxembourg) but also André Klenes' duo, stringquintet and Moonly Delights.

Discography
2012 - « à dos d'âmes » - OakTree // Mogno Music
2012 - « Strange Fruit » - Fabrizio Cassol // BLUE NOTE
Décembre 2009 ­ démo à Dos d'âmes
2009 - « Ballade sur le nom de Rimbaud » - André Klenes // CHAMBER