TRICKY BISCUITS (Bent Lylloff).pdf - Edition Svitzer

Biography
Bent Lylloff, known to many as the "Dean of Scandinavian
Percussion," died on March 7th 2001.
His musical career included jazz symphonic, opera and avantgarde
music. Lylloff began studying drums at the age of
seven, marching in a Boy Scout band. At the age of ten he
began studying piano and mallet instruments. After studies
with Danish teachers, he continued studies with Gilbert
Webster in London, Robert Tourte in Paris, and Morris
Goldenberg and Saul Goodman at the Juilliard School of
Music in New York.
Lylloff was at the forefront of Scandinavian percussion music
for many years as a result of his accomplishments as a
recording artist, his concert tours, and his educational clinics
and master classes. From 1961 to 1989 he served as Principal
Percussionist and Timpanist with the Royal Danish
Orchestra.
He worked with many prominent composers and conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Pierre
Monteux, Georg Solti, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Witold Lutoslavski,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Benjamin Britten, Andre Previn, Eugene Ormandy,
Otto Klemperer and Charles Munch. He also worked with such popular artists as Frank Sinatra,
Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Harry Belafonte and
Toots Thielemans.
Bent was a good friend of Elden
Chandler "Buster" Bailey, and in the fall
of 1973 they met through each other's
connections with the New York
Philharmonic. During this time, the
Philharmonic was going through a strike,
and Bent stood out on the picket lines
with Buster for one whole day.
When Bent returned home from the
USA, he started writing his own snare
drum exercises for his students, which
were strongly inspired by Buster Bailey's
Wrist Twisters.
In 1989 he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He often appeared
as a soloist in Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia. Many composers wrote works for him and
Lylloff himself was recognized as a composer.