Miako Klein, Berlin-based musician, performer and improviser, has a greatly varied musical background. Classically educated on the recorder and violin, she has extensive experiences in performing contemporary music, as well as in Early and improvised music. Miako constantly questions and challenges the conventional ways of music performance by pushing boundaries between styles and genres, by experiment, and by interdisciplinary collaborations. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and often collaborates with composers who have written works for her.

_​ Miako has played as a guest with Ensemble Modern, ICE International Contemporary Ensemble, Il Pomo d'Oro, Constanza Macras | Dorky Park and Quartet New Generation, and she regularly performs with her trio JANE IN ETHER (with Magda Mayas and Biliana Voutchkova), her duo WARBLE (with trumpeter Brad Henkel), trumpet player Sava Stoianov and harpsichordist Jia Lim, Cité des Dames, the Marc Sinan Company and different constellations for contemporary, Early and improvised music.

Throughout 2010/11, she worked as musician at the Cirque du Soleil Show ZAiA in Macau. She won fellowships as Artist in Residency at Kunstmeile Krems in 2014 and Akademie Schloss Solitude 2014-15.
_ She has performed at the Ultraschall Festival Berlin, MATA-Festival NYC, Aichi Triennale Japan, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Early Music Festival Barcelona, Emergences Festival Avignon, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Boulevard Festival s’Hertogenbosch, DeSuite-Muziekweek Amsterdam and Klangwerktage Hamburg. Miako's live-recordings have been broadcast on German radio stations including HR/DLF, WDR3 and Concertzender.
_ At young age Miako won prizes in numerous competitions including first prize at the “International Recorder Competition of Engelskirchen” and the “SONBU” International Recorder Competition of Utrecht/NL. She was awarded first prize at Germany’s National Youth Competition, “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert”, on multiple occasions. Miako also won the “Prize of the City Erlangen for the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music”, the special award for outstanding ensemble performance by “Stadtsparkasse Köln”, and the IRINO-Foundation Tokyo award for contemporary music.
The daughter of a classical pianist, Miako received her first musical lessons as a young child. At the Westfalian music school she was then taught the recorder by Gudula Rosa and the violin by Tor-Song Tan. Miako studied the recorder with Paul Leenhouts at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and graduated with distinction, and violin as a second major with Lex Korff de Gidts.

She also studied Early Music UdK Berlin with Prof. Christoph Huntgeburth (recorder) and Irmgard Huntgeburth (Baroque violin) and took Masterclasses with Mechthild Karkow and Luca Giardini.

Jia Lim comes from Singapore and first studied trumpet, music theory at the University of Michigan (USA) and harpsichord at the University of Berlin. This was followed by the inevitable pilgrimage to Basel, where she earned a master's degree in historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum from 2011 to 2013. She won prizes at international competitions as a harpsichordist and chamber music partner. Since her student days, she has performed regularly on the early music scene - from grand stages in Europe to emptied swimming pools in Berlin - and roles have ranged from continuo player in oratorios, soloist in the Goldberg Variations, and drummer in medieval carols. She has worked as a repetiteur in various opera houses and baroque festivals. Interest in contemporary music led to world premieres and experimental projects with improvisation and electronics. In her project 'Sonus Feminae' she performs music of forgotten female composers with the ensemble Cité des Dames. She joined the theater world in 2019, performing in 'Vengapoise' and 'Sisyphus' at Volksbühne Berlin in the 2020/21 season. She first appeared in 'Das Narrenschiff' at Theater Basel. 'Little Ice Age' is her fourth work with Marius Schötz and Marthe Meinhold.