MERTENS Hardy

MERTENS Hardy

Bio

"Hardy Mertens was born 1960 in Nieuwenhagen (NL). He studied musicology at the Utrecht University, composition and band conducting at the Utrecht Conservatory. In 1984 and 1985 he joined the Netherlands Royal Military Band as arranger and clarinet player. Since 1990 Hardy Mertens has been a regular guest conductor with the Singapore Wind Symphony and since 1995 also with the Sardinian symphonic band ""Lao Silesu"".

Besides composing, he conducts the Netherlands Police Band, the Philips Symphonic Band and several Dutch community bands, teaches at international courses and guest conducts.

Hardy Mertens also teaches band conducting at the Tilburg Conservatory.

Compositions by Hardy Mertens are rooted in the European orchestral tradition and often influenced by folk music from different continents. Traditional tonality, extended melody lines and percussive patterns are often combined with humorous surprises and unusual sounds. This complexity usually results in a high grade of difficulty and sometimes this causes controversy with conductors and musicians."

Compositions (150)

1890 Sinfonietta festiva
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52nd Street
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Adagio
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Afro Voodoo
  • Hevioso
  • Gabara
  • Papa Legba
  • Dambala
  • Mawu
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Afterlife
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The Ainur
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All the binge bottles for the beat-and-blow-job-mob, the nimble naughty thirsty bunch on the loose
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All the mouth-watering meals for flashing Flora, the nimble naughty hungry ghost on the loose
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Amare è donare
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Aphrodite
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Aragorn
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L' Arco dell´ Angelo
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Armageddon
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Arnoldo
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Astro Jam
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Ballroom bamboozles
  • Samba
  • Waltz
  • Blues
  • Trot
  • Square dance
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Bam Bam
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Banshee
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Bardo
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Beim Vogelhändler
Blow!
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Bryanna
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The butterfly lovers
The calm before the storm
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Cante jondo
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Cantico di frate sole
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Carnival (part 5 from Symphony n° 2)
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Chilli crab rap
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Chinicuilito
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Choral of life from The sun behind my tears
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Choral of love from The sun behind my tears
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Chucker out
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Chupito Ramiro
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Concerto for Clarinet and symphonic band
  • Circe
  • Aphrodite
  • Medusa
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The Cry for reunion (part 4 from Symphony n° 2)
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Da pacem domine
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Dances to the rhythm of spring
  • Dance 1
  • Dance 2
  • Dance 3
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Demons' dance
Der Ötzi auf Safari
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Der Weenende Marshelik
Der Yeti auf Tahiti
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Desire and suffering (part 2 from Symphony n° 2)
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Doowyllob
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Dreamscape
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Drenthe 2000 march
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Drie ventielkes
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The eighteen levels of hell
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Eijkhagen college jubilee march
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Fear and fury (part 1 from Symphony n° 2)
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Fiefoerniek
Fort Canning park birds
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Funkdrunk
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GiuliAnnalisa
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Glasmännchen
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Hallucination (part 3 from Symphony n° 2)
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The heavenly Flute player and the dragon king
  • 1st movement
  • 2nd movement
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Helmut Rainer Marsch
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Horizon prophecies
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Il vento della vita
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In memoriam il sorriso
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Iris
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Jazzica
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Jordons´ gum chewers
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JulYassa
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Keyif
  • with Nil on the Bosphorus ferry
  • with Flavia at the Sultanahmet mosque
  • with Semiha at the Ayvacik bazaar
Koel
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Kukeri
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Kykládes
  • Paros
  • Syros
  • Mykonos
  • Naxos
  • Santorini
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La memoria delle pietre
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Lamento
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Land of thousand flavours
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The last hamburger in hungry town
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Leonardus rex
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Lest we forget
Lisbet Salander
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Louice and Blue Eyes
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Lourdes Maria
Mangala
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Maori
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Mariana
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Marie chérie
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Mea culpa
Melandria
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Milot le oelamin (Eternal words)
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Monologue in may
  • Opinion
  • Speech
  • Reflection
  • Re-opinion
  • Jumpy conclusion
Museum
  • Clio
  • Euterpe
  • Thalia
  • Melpomene
  • Terpsichore
  • Erato
  • Ourania
  • Kalliope
  • Polyhymnia
Negli occhi di Beatrice
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Nirvana´s touch
  • The awakening from a material dream
  • The beauty of wisdom
  • Through the gate of enlightenment
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Noizy nite
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Ollie goes bananas
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Once I was a dreamer
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Ostara
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Philips centennial march
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Pitri Eins Sechs Null
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Poseidon
  • Poseidon arises from the sea
  • Voyages in the golden carriage
  • The creation of the first horse
  • The adultery with Medousa
  • The wrath of Athena
  • The love for Gaia
  • Poseidon's undisputed divinity
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Prayer
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Psalm 19
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Punch
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Pushing the limits
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RamyRossy
Refugees
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Requiem for a future war
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Requiem for the captive condor
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Ritual
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Romantic ceremonial from Ritual
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Romario
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Rondo skolion (part 5 from Symphony n° 1)
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Rose des sables
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Säntis
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Saphir
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Sara's soul from Winanga li
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Schnaps shots
  • Becherovka
  • Palinka
  • Tuica
  • Borovicka
  • Rakia
  • Slivovka
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Serenate sulla soglia del paradiso
  • Very fast
  • Fast waltz
  • Lazy
  • Easy going waltz
  • Slow
  • Very fast
  • Fast waltz
  • Elegy
  • Fast
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Shanghai sword dance
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The Singapore experience
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Sir Stamford
Sjtub
Sonetto
Su ballu 'e s' arza
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The sun behind my tears
  • Choral of life
  • Choral of love
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Susanoodles
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Symphony n° 1 Voice of mind
  • Introduction and meditation
  • Caccia
  • Requiem
  • Pallavi
  • Rondo skolion
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Symphony n° 2 Revelations
  • Fear and fury
  • Desire and suffering
  • Hallucination
  • The cry for reunion
  • Carnival
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Take a walk
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Tango
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Ten romantic moods
  • I. Duo from Ritual
  • II. The walkyre's reward from Walhalla
  • III. Enlightenment from Nirvana's touch
  • IV. Theme from Requiem for the captive condor
  • V. The love for Jade Moon from The three storms
  • VI. Our morals and lifes from The eighteen levels of hell
  • VII. Famine and pestilence from Armageddon
  • VIII. Success from Pushing the limits
  • IX. Theme from Lest we forget
  • X. Finale from Cantico di frate sole
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The bridge
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The girl from Narrateema
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The three storms
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The three tenors
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Troubled sunflower
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Twin flames
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U mundu drentu a ti
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Uaithne
Una mariposa llamada Carina
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Uncle Noomes and uncle Toomes
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Valarantea (Memorial Andrea Parodi)
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Variazioni sinfoniche su non potho reposare
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Vieni qui
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¡Viva el litro!
Wacah chan
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Walhalla
Wash
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Winanga-li
  • The breath of life
  • Sara's soul
  • Rainbow dance
  • The dawn of Winanga-li
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WMC Hymn
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Wonders & Miracles City (WMC)
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Xenia Sarda
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Za Mir
Zitterd
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Zodiac limit for the lion

Arrangements (7)

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Deus ti salvet Maria
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Festwies polka (Chodounska)
Finale from symphony n° 1
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Impressioni di Sardegna
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Soidade
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Waltz for violins
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Wind and tree
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