Elisabeth Amandi

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Elisabeth Amandi

Elisabeth Amandi , née Völkel (born October 21, 1950 in Bamberg ), is a German marimba player , drummer , composer, author, lecturer and teacher. As one of the first musicians, she completed a percussion degree in 1976 (Musikhochschule Würzburg).

biography

Elisabeth Amandi received piano and ballet lessons as a child in Würzburg . Elisabeth Amandi left the grammar school in 1967 after 6 years with the completion of the secondary school leaving certificate and then studied at the Bavarian State Conservatory (now the Musikhochschule ) in Würzburg. She completed this course in 1970 as a subject teacher for music at elementary and secondary schools with a major in piano and minor subjects in viol and flute . She then studied piano with Manfred Dietz and graduated as a piano teacher in 1973. During this time she discovered her talent for percussion instruments and studied timpani / drums at the Würzburg University of Music from 1973 to 1976 , with a focus on marimba with Siegfried Fink . She was a member of the Würzburger Percussion Ensemble, gave concerts nationwide and abroad and made sound recordings for the Bavarian radio . This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich with Hermann Gschwendtner.

In Munich she met Manfred Amandi, whom she married in 1979. Increasingly, she worked as a teacher for piano, marimba, drums and percussion ensemble in music schools and music academies (including in Trossingen ) and as a lecturer. During this work she developed her talent as a composer and specialist author for percussion textbooks. In 1981, she was a marimba player by the appearance on the ZDF telecast Wetten, dass ..? met Frank Elstner , where she bet she would play the flight of the bumblebee faster than the violinist Ivry Gitlis on his violin. She won the bet with 47 seconds and was the betting queen of the evening.

In 1985 she was the first German-speaking marimba player to publish a music album , Marimba Scenes with Itonmusik Krailling. Elisabeth Amandi and her duo partner were invited to play individual music tracks from this album by the TV broadcasters SWR (good mood with music), NDR (talk show) and WDR (midday in Düsseldorf). In 1988, ZDF produced a portrait of the then Amandi duo for its music channel with their then marimba / vibraphone duo. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation engaged her several times in the 1980s for broadcasts such as Zu Gast in Würzburg .

Their music ensembles today are the Trio Amandi MarimbaBanda (marimba, piano, drums) and the Duo Amandi KlangPerlenSpiel (marimba, harp).

In 2003 she and her husband Manfred Amandi founded the non-profit Amandi foundation “Music helps children” in Munich. The foundation particularly promotes musical education for children in the form of music lessons on drums, marimba and drum groups and with an annual student concert to strengthen self-confidence.

Elisabeth Amandi went public in June 2013 in Munich-Pasing with the “Drum Star March”, which she and her husband realized by playing drums for 125 children at six public schools (four elementary schools, one secondary school and one middle school) over a school year taught in order to then have the 125 children march rhythmically drumming on the church square in front of Maria Schutz for the 1250th anniversary of Pasing , with great sympathy from the people of Pasing . That was the reason for Bayerischer Rundfunk to create a documentary film about Elisabeth Amandi in the series of life lines entitled "Liz, a Franconian whirlwind", which was broadcast several times. This film was also shown worldwide via Deutsche Welle (DW) in February 2014 with English-language dubbing .

A highlight of her musical activities so far was the world premiere of her 31-minute composition "Ritmo Vito - Suite for Marimba, String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion" on July 29, 2018 in Würzburg with herself as a marimba soloist and the Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg under the baton of GMD Enrico Calesso .

In 2018 Yngra Wieland published the "biographical novel" Creativity Makes Happy About Elisabeth Amandi at Franzius Verlag, Bremen .

Publications

  • 1981: In the rhythm of the bongos (textbook; Francis, Day & Hunter)
  • 1983: To the rhythm of the congas (textbook; Francis, Day & Hunter)
  • 1985: Marimbaszenen with Ariadne Duo (Itonmusik CD album)
  • 1987: In the rhythm of the baroque (game booklet; Zimmermann Musikverlag )
  • 1989: In the rhythm of ragtime I, II, III (game booklet; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1991: Ragtime Alive (game booklet; Verlag Heinrichshofen)
  • 1992: Stabspiel-Pyramid 1 & 2 (compositions; Eres edition)
  • 1992: Augmentation + Floating (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1993: Membrano a Tré + Rotazio (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1994: Ritmo Bagatello + Quattro stazione (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1995: Samba Batu + Samba Cada (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1995: Tremollino Malletino + A la Pentatonie (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1997: Drum Tom-Tom + Trim-Tram-Trom-Trum (compositions; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 1997: Chopin meets Streisand (CD album; Accor)
  • 2001: Mambo , Cha-Cha & Tschaikowsky (CD album; Accor)
  • 2007: BongoRitmo (textbook; Zimmermann Musikverlag)
  • 2008: MarimbaEnergia (CD album; Accor)
  • 2009: Percussion class (textbook + CD; Edition Peters )
  • 2016: Ritmo Vito - Suite for marimba, string orchestra, piano and percussion (13-part marimba concert; Furore Verlag , Kassel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marimba Energia , Münchner Wochenanzeiger , May 2013.
  2. ^ Lifelines: Liz, a Franconian whirlwind ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Bavarian TV, July 5, 2013.
  3. ^ Homepage of Y. Wieland
personal data
SURNAME Amandi, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amandi, Liz; Völkel, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg , Germany