Judy Klein is an American

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 pianist, music educator and composer.

Life

Judy Klein was born in Chicago

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, Illinois

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, and later moved with her family to Los Angeles

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, California

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. She studied music at the University of California, Berkeley

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, and continued her studies at the Conservatory of Music in Basel

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, Switzerland

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. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree from New York University

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, after studying with Thomas Kessler

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, Reynold Weidenaar, Lilli Friedemann and Ruth Anderson. She continued her studies in computer generated music at the Brooklyn College

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 Center for Computer Music with Charles Dodge

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, and also worked at the center as a guest composer.

After completing her studies, Klein taught computer music and composition at New York University and founded a computer music studio there. She also worked as a guest lecturer at various colleges and conservatories, and as a consultant for electro-acoustic music preservation at Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Works

Selected works include:

• The Wolves Of Bays Mountain
• Elements 1.1: sulphur, phosphorus; diamond (1992–93) for tape