Lothar Klein is a composer and teacher who grew up in Germany and Toronto. He earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where he studied composition. He later taught at Horchschule in Germany and at the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, and the University of Toronto. Klein’s compositions have won Rockefeller New Music prizes, the Greenwood Choral Prize, and the Floyd S. Chalmers Performing Arts Creative Award. He has also contributed to many articles and journals in the United States and Canada and served as a composer-in-residence at the University of Nebraska, The University of Houston, Smith College, and MacDowell. Upon retirement from teaching at the University of Toronto in 1996, he announced his intention to write a comic opera.
Lothar Klein
Studios
New Jersey
Lothar Klein worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…