Jim Klein and Ian Jamison have been collaborating since 2018. They are based in Colorado and Arizona. In 2021, concert pianist Adam Zukiewicz played an all Klein-Jamison concert during The Beethoven in the Rockies Series: Six Preludes, Piano Sonata (The Abyss), Breaking Waves and Ah. The Colorado Piano Trio debute Jamison’s arrangements of George Gershwin’s SummerTime and other American standards for the piano trio at UNC Greeley in August 2022.

In October 2022, The Loveland Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Louie Silvestri, premiered Klein and Jamison’s The Flood. Colorado Piano Trio premiered The Blue Diamond at Black, Starr & Frost in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2022. The Blue Diamond was also performed in April 2023, Westcliffe Colorado and in Greeley Colorado. The Blue Diamond was recorded in January and is scheduled for release in 2023. In March 2023, Zukiewicz performed Piano Sonata (The Abyss) at ASU Tempe, Arizona and at Baylor University in Texas.

Klein and Jamison’s piece for choir and orchestra, Summation, will be performed in Boulder and in Greeley, Colorado in October 2023. The Klein-Jamison Sonatas for Alto Saxophone and Piano No. 1 and No. 2 were recorded by Andrew Dahlke and Juhyun Lee in 2023. Klein and Jamison’s Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano No. 2 is scheduled for recording this fall by Calvin Wong and Siyi Chen and planned for a 2023 premiere in Arizona.

The Klein-Jamison Sonata for Clarinet and Piano will also be recorded and premiered this year by Peter Stoll and Adam Zukiewicz with performances planned for Toronto, Canada, and in Colorado, including an April 2023 performance that took place in UNC Greeley.

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