Alex Klein

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an oboist.

Klein joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe at age 30 in 1995.<ref name="nytimes2005"/> He won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental soloist with Orchestra for his recording of Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He left the Chicago Symphony in July 2004 due to musician's focal dystonia which had begun within two years of his assuming the first chair. During a tour of the Far East with the orchestra, he found his fingers would no longer allow him to play at his finest level throughout a symphony by Tchaikovsky, and asked to resign.<ref name="nytimes2005">Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 2016, he was once again appointed principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, he was denied tenure in the CSO in April 2017 as a result of not passing the mandatory probation period.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In October 2018, Klein was appointed principal oboe of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2024, he was terminated from the orchestra, due to "deeply troubling comments posted online".<ref>"Calgary Philharmonic removes two musicians after month-long investigation over 'troubling commentsTemplate:'" by Josh O'Kane, May 23, 2024, The Globe and Mail Template:Subscription</ref>

External links

• "Alex Klein", biography, discography, reviews, Cedille Records
• Recording of "Sonata for Oboe and Piano" by Eugène Bozza, with Alex Klein, oboe and Lisa Bergman, piano in MP3 format
• "Interview with Alex Klein", June 11, 2002