Adam Klemm was born in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1976. Started to play violin but switched to clarinet after a year. Fall in love with saxophone and jazz at 16 and founded a band with one of his sisters. At 18 started to play as an associate member in the RTS Novi Sad Dance Orchestra and with some local bands. Got his first “official†saxophone lesson at 20 in Budapest, Hungary, where he studied with Pap József and Tuzko Csaba. After staying a year and a half in Budapest, he went to study to Austria and got a Master’s degree in saxophone from University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz in the class of Karl-Heinz Miklin and Heinrich von Kalnein. Since 1999 he has led his own ensemble, the Adam Klemm Quartet/Quintet that he later renamed to Adam Klemm Banda. He has recorded for RTV Novi Sad and the Austrian ORF. He received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry for Culture and went to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. He was taught by Jari Perkiomäki, Manuel Dunkel and Eero Koivistoinen. After returning from Finland, he started playing in a band led by the legend of the Austrian jazz scene, guitarist Karl Ratzer and young Slovakian composer Erik Rothenstein. 2004 he released a CD with a Bosnian trio Minority, and he is touring with the international band Marimanga. He is occasionally playing in different combos and Big Bands such as the Big Band of Radio and Television Slovenia, Ratko Divljak Group, etc. He has performed with different bands in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, B&H, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Egypt, etc.
Currently, Adam is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is teaching saxophone and clarinet, working reguraly with the RTV Big Band of Slovenia, playing with different small bands and he is one of the program managers on the Novi Sad Jazz Festival. From 2008 Adam is a regular member of the RTV Slovenija Big Band.
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