
HOLGER MANTEY.
PIANO
DRUMS & SOUNDS

Lovely to see you here!
With my various projects, I have been on tour across 21 countries around the world. I play well-known pieces and rearrange them in startling and sometimes also shocking ways.
In my concerts music and entertainment are balanced in such a way that guarantees maximum enjoyment. My own original, catchy piano ballads serve to round off an amusing recital.
My musical interpretations range from Mozart to Gershwin to Bach to Jobim, so you can expect many different things except for one: that you will ever get bored.
I combine various instruments like drums, handpans, "chord boards," castanets, etc. with my grand piano. The result is a surprising interpretation of famous works and unexpected harmonies of different sounds.
If there is no piano on location, I will gladly bring my own mobile grand piano, which not only produces excellent sound but will also give your event a very special flair.
I look forward to your inquires.
On this page you will find the date and information for a GongKlang meditation: www.gong.de
It will be take place at the St.Lukas community hall,
Alexander Flemingstr. 14, in the university district (across from the shopping mall).








The storyteller on the PIANO.
Pianist Holger Mantey cannot be captured using common categories. Elements of both classical and jazz music, enriched with improvisational and meditational components, enter into novel and original connections in his work. The pianist's special forte is dressing well-known musical themes in a new, richly decorated robe through which the contours of the original always shine through. Uwe Engel
THE NEXT DATES .
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
16.07.25, Ev.Kirche Bansin, 20:00 Uhr
GongKlang-Meditation
24.07.25, St-Lukas. Lübeck, 19:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
12.08.25 Ev Kirche Boltenhagen, 19:30 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
28.08.25, Bad Steben, Kurhaus, 19:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
07.09.25, Ev.Epiphaniengemeinde Hamburg, MUSIKZEIT, 18:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
21.09.25, Christuskirche Koblenz, 17:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
05.10.25, Ev.Kirche Iserloe, Zeit:?
YOKI-TOKI, fead. Yoko Takano
11.10.25, Schloss Schönhagen, 20:00 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
17.10.25, Germersheim, Hufeisen, 20:00 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
23.10.25, Ev.Kirche Petersdorf/ Fehmarn, 20:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
17.07.25, Ev.Kirche Ahlbeck, 20_00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
06.08, Graal-Müritz, Konzertmuschel, 15:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
19.08.25 Ev.Nikolaikirche Grömitz, 20:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
29.08.25, Bad Urach, Glashalle, 19:30 Uhr
GongKlang-Meditation
11.09.25, St.Lukas, Lübeck, 19:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
25.09.25, Kurgartensaal in Wyk auf Föhr, 20:00 Uhr
GongKlang mit YOKI-TOKI
09.10.25, GongKlang-Meditation mit Yoko Takano aus Osaka und Holger Mantey, St.Lukas, Lübeck, 19:00 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
12.10.25, Konzert in St.Lukas. Lübeck, 20:00 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
18.10.25, Bielefeld, Capella Hospitalis, 19:00 Uhr
Konzerttour Japan vom 07.11. bis 16.12.25 mit YOKO-TOKI
Konzerte in ganz Japan mit Yoko Takano, Uwe Walter und Holger Mantey
GongKlang-Meditation
20.07.25, Bad Sachsa, Vitalpark, 15:00 Uhr
JUAN MESA & HOLGER MANTEY
08.08, Eckernförde, Spiecker, 20:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
26.08.25, Ev.Niendorf/Holstein, 20:00 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
31.08.25, Bochumer Musiksommer, Innenstadt, ab 15 Uhr
PIANO-DRUMS & SOUNDS
14.09.25, Kulturhof Westerbeck, 16:00 Uhr
Projekt KLANGWELTEN
28.09.25, St.Martin in Lübeck, 18:00 Uhr mit Tony Clark / Miu Inoue / Yoko Takano / Holger Mantey
YOKI-TOKI (Gute Zeit) fead.
Yoko Takano
10.10.25, Kulturverein Huntlosen , Großenkneten, 19:30 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
14.10.25, Berlin, Japanisch-Deutsches Haus, 18:00 Uhr
YOKI-TOKI, fead.Yoko Takano
19.10. Bad Essen, Schafstall, 17:00 Uhr
GongKlang-Meditation
18.12.25, St.Lukas, Lübeck, 19:00 Uhr

About me .
HOLGER MANTEY pianist-composer
From 1980 to 1985, Mantey completed a classical piano programme at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin in the class of Professor Heinz Zimbehl and Sonja Großmann.
1987 is the year of his risky escape from East Germany to West Germany. Mantey went to Cologne and began to make a name for himself as a soloist.
Numerous concert performances led him to many international stages and festivals both inside and outside his home country, including to New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Poggibonsi, Valladolid, Perugia, Lissabon, Osaka, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, Ankara, and Izmir. He has performed at most of the big German festivals (Deutsches Jazzfestival in Frankfurt, Leverkusener Jazztage in Leverkusen, Kölner Jazzhausfestival in Cologne, Jazzfestival Ost-West in Nuremberg, and Kempener Jazzfrühling in Kempen to name but a few).
The pianist makes appearances on radio and television broadcasts on the Hessischer Rundfunk (Hesse Broadcasting), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North German Broadcasting), 3SAT, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting), Deutschlandfunk (German Broadcasting), Saarländischer Rundfunk (Saarland Broadcasting), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting), Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting), Livestyle, Inspirationen, Trends (Lifestyle, Inspirations, Trends), and Radiotelevisione Italiana.
Concert tours took him to the following countries: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Guinea, Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Lithuania, Russia, Senegal, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (many in collaboration with the Goethe Institute).
1993: Contribution to the European Broadcasting Union's jazz festival in Perugia as a delegate of the first national television channel of Germany (Das Erste – The First).
1995: Founding of the "Duo Total" with saxophonist and Cologne-native Matthias Schubert.
Together with Schubert, Mantey won the 1996 International Contest for Young Art in Düsseldorf.
Mantey collaborated with the following artists: Burhan Öcal, Laurent Dehors, Christopher Dell, Matthias Schubert, Ramamani, Ramesh Shotam, and many others.
To date, there have been 16 albums released under his name, as well as some others in which Holger Mantey was featured as a guest artist.
Mantey teaches workshops, writes musical pieces, publishes the "Elements of Music" correspondence course with Hamburg-native musician and publisher Felix Schell, and performs every year at various concerts around the world as a soloist and in other projects.