Born in Slovenia and based in Karlsruhe and Basel, guitarist Klara Tomljanovič studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg as well as at the Musik-Akademie Basel. Already during her stud- ies, she became interested in contemporary music and started playing in the Aleph Guitar Quartet; the beginning of her international career. Since 2011 Klara Tomljanovič has been a soloist in the Ensemble Experimental of the SWR Experimental Studio.
In 2021 she received a grant from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, together with the Festival Imago Sloveniae. With their support, four composers – Márton Illés, Steingrímur Rohloff, Tomaž Bajželj and Alberto Carretero – were commissioned to write a piece of music for Klara Tomljanovič.
For more than two decades she has been working intensively with composers such as Vinko Globokar, Uroš Rojko, Vito Žuraj, Arthur Kampela, Nikolaus Brass, Beat Furrer, Helmut Oehring, Martin Smolka, Georg Friedrich Haas, Dieter Ammann and Nicolaus A. Huber. Several composi- tions for solo guitar have been dedicated to her.
Her equally intellectual and emotional devotion to new and brand-new compositions is the basis of Klara Tomljanovič ́s extraordinarily strong stage presence. She has performed, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, at numerous venues and festivals, including ECLAT (Stuttgart), MaerzMusik (Berlin), musikprotokoll (Graz), musica viva (Munich), International Weingarten Days for New Music, Hamburg Klangwerktage, Warsaw Autumn, Pan Music Festival (Seoul, South Korea), Archipel (Geneva), Rote Fabrik (Zurich), Villa Massimo (Rome), Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich), Teatro Metropol (Tarragona, Spain), Es Baluard (Palma de Mallorca) and ISCM World Music Days. She has established musical partnerships with a variety of ensembles, orchestras and musicians, including Aleph Guitar Quartet (1995–2010), Ensemble Mosaik, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Teodoro Anzellotti, Sylvia Nopper, Ernesto Molinari and Isao Nakamura.