Jens Klimek was born on April 19, 1984 in Magdeburg (Germany). He got his basic musical education at the Landesgymnasium für Musik including music history, music theory, auditive training and choral direction.

At the Landesgymnasium für Musik Jens Klimek also worked as the youth chamber orchestra’s conductor (1999-2003) and sang in the Rundfunk-Jugendchor (2000-2003).

He began his first attempts in composing at the age of 11. Aged 13 he wrote his first sketches for operas and orchestral pieces which have been performed at the Halberstadt local theatre at several composition workshops.

Numerous premieres and prices in composition contests prove his continous compositional work. In 2006 Jens Klimek won the 2nd price at the composition contest of the Deutscher Musikrat for “The Garden of love” (for mixed choir a cappella). In June 2008 he won the 1st first price in the International compostion contest “Lipanski zvuci” for his work “Three Madrigals” (for male chamber choir, based on texts by Dante, E. A. Poe and W. Blake).

Further premieres:
KREUZGESANG (Chant at the cross) – Halle, 2004
Lichte Nacht – Chemnitz, 2006
Hora nona – Chemnitz, 2007
songs from days of ashes – Velpke, 2008
Die JAKOBUS-Gesänge (St. James' chants) - Dresden, 2009

From 2004 to 2010 Jens Klimek studied music and anglistics at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. Furthermore he has been educated in composition by Bernhard Schneyer and Prof. Thomas Buchholz (Halle/Saale). Since 2005 he has conducted the Cantamus Choir in Magdeburg and has worked with prisoners on a choral project. He also sings in the Wernigerode chamber choir and participates in various compositional workshops by Annette Schlünz and Helmut Lachenmann.

Klimek's choral music has been published at Hayo music publishing and Edition Ferrimontana.
Since August 2010 he has been teaching Music and English at Hegelgymnasium/ Magdeburg.