My way to building a mallet
Together with Professor Gerald Fromme, the Viennese timpani workshop launched a new series of Viennese timpani mallets in 2011 under the project management of Bernd Lanner, the company's CEO. All of the Fromme Vienna mallets were based on models from earlier Gerald Fromme series, or on his almost limitless wealth of ideas and wealth of experience in the field of mallet making.
Gerald Fromme has been making timpani mallets since 1970 and has made the "Wiener Schlägel" brand over the decades due to his well-thought-out and independent products of the highest quality, to make them known worldwide. It is thanks to Prof. Gerald Fromme that Pauker's top international orchestras and teachers of a wide variety of timpani traditions have valued the "Vienna mallet" as an indispensable instrument for decades.
In 2013, the Viennese timpani workshop and Prof. Fromme asked whether I was going to manufacture would like to participate in this "Fromme Vienna" series of beaters, as the new products quickly became a "must have" in the scene and demand had increased accordingly. Prof. Gerald Fromme finally taught me his art of mallet production in numerous units and thus entrusted me with a tremendous wealth of knowledge that I will cherish throughout my life.
In the first year of my work for the Viennese timpani workshop, I met Benjamin Forster, who at that time was a solo timpanist in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. He also encouraged me to build felt mallets based on German sound ideas and on bamboo sticks. An intense period of developing new models began.
After the interest in these products grew, I decided to operate under the name Steiner Superiormallets in 2016 and at the same time to go on the market with the extensive series "Germanline standard" (2016-2019). From mid-2019, I concentrated intensively on the production, sales and further development of the Benni Forster timpani sticks series and some signature series of snare drum sticks.
In 2020 I reorganized the company and since then the Steiner superiomallets
umbrella timpani mallets in the Berlin and Vienna style, drumsticks and the traditional Fromme Vienna brand have been offered, with my testimonials Benni Forster, Erwin Falk, Klaus Schwärzler and Norbert Rabanser and the great pleasure of being able to work with outstanding personalities of their genres - off to a new decade, off to new shores!
Andreas Steiner
Andreas Steiner
Born on June 18, 1975 in Wels, has been an orchestral musician since 1996.
After studying music in Linz and Vienna with professors Johann Gschwandtner, Leonhard Schmidinger, Bogdan Bacanu, Ernst Theis and Roland Altmann, he received his concert diploma in 1997 with distinction. From 2017 Andreas Steiner studied part-time at the Anton Bruckner Private University and completed his master's degree in November 2019 with the attainment of the academic degree Master of Arts (MA).
From 1996 to 2000 Andreas Steiner was first engaged as a drummer and timpanist in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and then as a solo timpanist in the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper. After an annual contract with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, in 2002 he was hired as a drummer and deputy timpani in the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, of which he still belongs.
Chamber music appearances and solo concerts at home and abroad are a welcome change for Andreas Steiner from his work as an orchestral musician, as a temporary assistant to the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra Camerata Salzburg, the RSO Vienna, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria, the Ensemble Aktuell, the Klangforum Wien, the ÖENM and many professional orchestras, he worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Kiril Petrenko, Franz Welser Möst , Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Roger Norington, Marc Minkowski, Ingo Metzmacher, Krzysztof Urbański, Adam Fischer, Ivan Fischer, Ivor Bolton, Leopold Hager, Dennis Russel Davis and many more.
The artistic participation and in-house production of numerous CD recordings in a wide variety of instrumentation and styles also belong to his area of responsibility and round off his artistic work.
In addition to his orchestral profession and solo activities, Andreas Steiner is the artistic and commercial director of the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists, a soloist ensemble , which appears mainly in chamber music ensembles, but also occurs again and again in orchestral strength. Since 2014, the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists have been an integral part of the Salzburg Festival in the Opera for Children section and appear at the most renowned festivals and concert organizers in Salzburg. International tours and guest performances regularly lead the Salzburg Orchestra soloists to German-speaking countries, to Spain and in 2016 and 2018 and 2018 to South Korea for extensive tours.
In 2016 Andreas Steiner founded his company Steiner superiormallets.
