Holger Mantey - Verwandlung (2022)

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.