Miako Klein is a Berlin-based musician, improviser and artistic director working across early music, contemporary music, improvisation and electronic sound.

Trained as a recorder player and violinist, she moves between historical performance practice, experimental music and collaborative forms of artistic creation. Her work is driven by a curiosity for the spaces between genres and by the question of how historical repertoire can be encountered from a contemporary perspective.

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Alongside her work as a soloist and chamber musician, Miako initiates and develops concert projects that bring music into dialogue with historical research, literature, visual art and staged forms of presentation. She is the initiator and artistic director of Sonus Feminæ, a Berlin concert series founded in 2023 by Cité des Dames and dedicated to music by women and new perspectives on music history. For the series, she conceives productions that explore questions of authorship, authority and representation while connecting early music with contemporary composition and other artistic forms. Projects developed within Sonus Feminæ have received funding from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture.

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Together with harpsichordist Jia Lim, Miako forms the duo NOVA ATLANTIS. Combining baroque violin, recorders and harpsichord with analogue electronics, effects and improvisation, the duo reimagines early Baroque musical languages through contemporary sound. Their debut album was recorded at the ZKM Karlsruhe and released by BUZZ / Challenge Records International in 2026.

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Miako is also a member of the improvising trio JANE IN ETHER with Magda Mayas and Biliana Voutchkova and performs in WARBLE with trumpeter Brad Henkel. Her other ongoing collaborations include trumpeter Sava Stoianov, Cité des Dames, the Marc Sinan Company and numerous artists and ensembles working in early, contemporary and improvised music.

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She has appeared as a guest with Ensemble Modern, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Il Pomo d’Oro, Constanza Macras | Dorky Park and Quartet New Generation. From 2010 to 2011, she performed as a musician in the Cirque du Soleil production ZAiA in Macau.

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Miako has performed at festivals and venues including the Aichi Triennale, Festival Musica Strasbourg, MATA Festival New York, Ultraschall Berlin, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Barcelona Early Music Festival, Heroines of Sound, Wien Modern and Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf. Her performances have been broadcast by Deutschlandfunk, ORF, WDR, hr and Concertzender.

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She has been an artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude and Kunstmeile Krems and has received numerous awards for her interpretations of early and contemporary music, including the IRINO Foundation Award in Tokyo and the City of Erlangen Prize for the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music.

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Miako studied recorder with Paul Leenhouts at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, graduating with distinction, and violin with Lex Korff de Gidts. She later continued her studies in early music at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Christoph Huntgeburth and Irmgard Huntgeburth and pursued further studies in baroque violin with Luca Giardini.