Entertain Mallets

Instrumentalists

Roland Härdtner - marimba, vibraphone, xylophone

Information about Roland Härdtner's musical career can be found under "biographie".

Boris Ritter - Piano, Arrangement
Boris Ritter was awarded with the “Outstanding Musicianship Award” from the „Berklee College of Music Boston“, USA. He has studied piano in Karlsruhe and was award winner at „Jugend komponiert“ (Young Composer) and „Jugend musiziert“ (Young Musician) at national German level. Besides this, he has been a long-time member of the „Bundesjugendorchester“ und musical director of the „Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal“. He plays and conducts at various musicals, like „Tanz der Vampire“, „3 Musketiere“, „Mamma Mia!“ and Elisabeth, also he is a lecturer at the „Musikhochschule Mannheim“.

Klaus Dusek - bass
Klaus Dusek studied contrabass at the „Musikhochschule Münster“. He was first winner at the contest „Jugend jazzt“ (Young Jazz Musician) and played in a number of jazz formations, including the „New Jazz Festival“ in Moers. Since 1984 he is a member of the „Städtische Orchester Pforzheim“.

Eckhardt Stromer - drums
Eckhard Stromer was born in Chicago/Ill. (USA) in 1972 and studied in Würzburg classical drums and jazz drums. Since 2000 he has taught as a lecturer at the „Staatl. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart“ in the subjects jazz and pop drums. Aided by his cross-over work in jazz and pop music as well as in the classical sector, he was able to call attention to himself as a award winner of various competions and as a drummer and percussionist in different television-, radio-, and CD-productions. He worked together so far with Peter Herbolzheimer, Bobby Shew, Cornell Dupree, Nils Gessinger, Roger Chapman, PUR, Rainer Tempel, Jon Lord, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Randy Brecker, Paquito d`Rivera, German Pops Orchestra, numerous musicals in Stuttgart and Berlin as well as various renowned symphonie orchestras.

Info

With „Entertain Mallets“ Roland Härdtner brings his tenth CD on the market. Together with the high-quality staffed „Swinging Mallets Trio“ the multifaceted mallets virtuoso presents a compilation of well-known hits from the last 75 years. According to the motto of the CD, the four musicians recorded popular music in the true sense of the word and on the highest musical level. The results are swinging and grooving arrangements of international „classics“ in a completely new style for the mallets. Various medleys with hits from the thirties and the fifties of the last centuty, well-known TV- and film-melodies as well as songs from „ABBA“ and The „Beatles“ invite the listener to a cheerful guessing game. Most of the melodies from the different medleys are likely to be well-known by the listener, but usually one can't remenber at once, where he or she knows this piece of music from. Especially the medleys from TV- and movie-melodies cover a wide range from famous children's programmes to saturday evening's whodunnits.

From ragtime to jazz standard, from movie classics to worlwide success musicals – this CD surely contains music for everybody's taste. The artists take you along to a journey through the last 75 years in history of radio, television and the movies. With this in mind, Roland Härdtner and the „Swinging Mallets Trio“ wish you while listening to „Entertain Mallets“, according to its title: Good Entertainment !

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