The inspiration for pianist Sina Kloke’s career came from her father. His playing of the C major Prelude from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier so fascinated the 5-year-old girl that she sat at the piano and picked out the notes by herself until she could play the whole piece. This passionate search for sound led her some years later to the greatest and most inspirational piano teachers of her time, Pavel Gililov and Arbo Valdma (Hochschule fuer Musik und Tanz Koeln), as well as Matti Raekallio (Juilliard School in New York). She also attended masterclasses with Dimitri Bashkirov, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Paul Badura-Skoda.
Since then, she has performed in the most prestigious concert halls of the classical world, including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Cologne Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Gasteig in Munich, Musikverein Vienna, the Semperopera Dresden, the Carnegie Hall in New York, KKL Luzern and Krakow Philharmonic. In the 2026/27 season, she will make her debut at the Vienna State Opera as part of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Series.
Besides music, Sina Kloke also discovered the magic of language in early childhood. She taught herself to read and write and recorded numerous cassette tapes full of speech and music.
Today she uses her linguistic talent in her concerts, especially when it comes to putting the music in a social context.
“Every concert needs a vision. I attach great importance to broad programming that braves new works alongside familiar classics. An experience of pure music without words can communicate just as well as in a narrated format.”
Audiences and press alike are delighted by Sina Kloke’s original programme ideas:
“Constructing a programme that forgoes the familiar, yet still carries the listener along is no small undertaking. Sina Kloke mastered this self-assigned task with élan, laying the foundations for her compelling debut at the Elbphilharmonie. The wealth of connections that the pianist found in her choice of works condensed in her hands into a sensuous journey.” (Hamburger Abendblatt)
Sina Kloke has been invited to perform at renowned festivals including Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, the Moritzburg Festival in Dresden and the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, where she is not only in demand as a soloist but also as a chamber musician together with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden.
She has worked with conductors such as Ekkehard Klemm, Leon Fleisher and Salvatore di Vittorio. Earlier this year she made her debut with Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy as a soloist with the Project Orchestra of the University of Bonn and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Sina Kloke is also a sought-after juror at international competitions and gives master classes worldwide.
For Sina Kloke, being an artist means always moving forward and rethinking traditional performance formats and concert dramaturgy.
“We need to think more diversely, be it in terms of orchestral line-up or programme construction. Many great artists and notable works have been cast aside by history and we are complicit in that. Music is universal and we need more variety in every respect.”
Together with mezzo-soprano Marta Wryk and the project “Mothers. Lovers. Revolutionists.” she advocates for greater visibility of woman composers.
Of particular interest to her are composers who express a humanist stance in their music, such as Ludwig van Beethoven and George Enescu. Her debut CD on the MDG label was dedicated to the latter and was hailed by Le Monde as “a fascinating CD”.
For Sina Kloke, humanism extends beyond the concert hall into everyday life. Her commitment – including work with UNICEF and refugee aid, the founding of the association Glow Up · Strengthening Democracy, and the artistic direction of the eponymous democracy festival, which combines culture with civic education – underscores her conviction that art is not only a creative force but also a social one.