Background

Kless began performing at an early age, attaining a world-wide reputation in his activities like soloist

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 and chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

ian. His repertoire includes works from baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period to compositions specially created for him.

He studied with Israel Amidan

Israel Amidan

-Biography:He was a child when his parents moved to Israel and settled there in the place now called Kefar Gideon moshav, which they also founded. He taught at the Tel Aviv music academy, Yair Kless a notable student.Beginners' steps...

 and André Gertler

André Gertler

André Gertler was a classical violinist and teacher.Born in Budapest, Hungary, he fled the country under the Nazis. He was a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music, in Brussels, Belgium....

 at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, and later at the Conservatory and the Musical Chapel Queen Elizabeth in Brussels

Brussels

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.

Kless belonged to the Baroque Musicians Israeli Group, and he was the first violin in the Sol-La-Re string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

, the Tel Aviv piano quartet

Piano quartet

In European classical music, piano quartet denotes a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments...

 and the American New Art Trio. He is currently a member of the Modus Trio, a string trio

String trio

A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The term is generally used with reference to works of chamber music from the Classical period to the present.-History:...

 in Israel.

For many years, he has been in charge of the String Department at the Rubin Academy of Music, which he directed between 1989 to 1993.

Kless has served as a jury member of several international competitions. He regularly takes part in summer courses and prestigious music festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival and Bravo! Institute. He is also a guest professor in master classes in the United States, the former Soviet Union

Post-Soviet states

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, Germany, Ireland, Finland, France, Australia, England, Italy, Poland and Holland. Since 1995, Mr. Kless has divided his time between Europe - as professor at the Graz University

University of Graz

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(Austria) - and Israel.