escola de samba - the "we" wins
Team
Frank Vollet
- 30 years experience in marketing, organisation and leadership of employees
- 10 years dean of an IT service provider
- Expert in the subject areas teamspirit, team building and change management
Frank is founder, CEO, conductor and musician at Escola de Samba. Even as a child he has been succumbed to the fascination of drumming. For over four decades he has been active as a drummer and percussionist on various instruments as well as in various formations and styles.
Since the beginning of the nineties Frank has drummed in several Samba Baterias and participated in workshops with the baterias Olodum and Ilé Aiyé. In recent years he has performed with various samba schools in Brazil.
Before Frank made his love for drumming his main occupation, he worked for almost 20 years as a business economist in various media and IT companies, including almost 10 years as a board member of an IT service provider. He is therefore familiar with the business and group dynamics in the business environment.
Frank has become an expert in team spirit over the years of work for Escola de Samba, has written various publications on the neurophysiological background and is also active in this area as a keynote speaker.
In his spare time, Frank enjoys being with his three children, likes endurance sports and loves music, music and music. He is currently a percussionist for The Funhouse (www.the-funhouse.de), Pillo Verde
(https://pillo-verde.de) und Viajando.
Dr. Frank Zinkant
Frank is originally a guitarist and plays this instrument passionately in various jazz formations. Frank is the musicological background of Escola de Samba and provides the right conditions for the conception of events.
As a multi-instrumentalist, Frank naturally plays all the percussion instruments of the Samba Batucada and has discovered his love for the somewhat neglected string instruments of samba, berimbau
and cavaquinho.
In addition to Escola de Samba, Frank runs his own music school (Strings and more), plays in several bands, is a passionate runner and loves music, music and music.
Caroline Kraska
Caro has been with Escola de Samba almost since the beginning. She has been singing songs since her childhood and has experience in choral as well as a soloist, from soft to hard rock. Under the direction of great artists, she sang in the State Youth Choir Rhineland-Palatinate until 2013; also in a project with Eric Whitacre.
Vocals is her main instrument, whereas she also finds a lot of joy and is furthermore experienced in other instruments like guitar, piano and percussion. Accordingly, she reinforces the band Pillo Verde not only vocally but with percussion too.
Drumming is the main activity at Escola de Samba, where she is constantly evolving. She has been involved since 2009 and knows how to use her versatile musical know-how.
Thea Florea
Thea Florea from Frankfurt is a drummer and percussionist, composer, who studied percussion, jazz and classical music in Germany and the USA.
Since 2000 she is a freelance live and studio drummer and teacher for drums & percussion.
She collaborates with numerous artists and bands in Germany and abroad in the fields of rock, blues, jazz, world music and classical music.
She drums Peter Karp Band (Singer-Songwriter Nashville) and Thea Florea Quartetts (Contemporary Original Jazz) amongst others.
tim breideband
Tim Breideband is a young dynamic percussionist born in Mainz, Germany in 1993. He began playing drums at the early age of 4 years old. Noticing his talent even at this early age, his parents quickly had Tim being professionally trained.
By the age of 12 Tim joined his first band and began to make his mark on drumming history. With inspirations like Mikkey Dee (Motörhead), Scott Travis (Racer x , Judas Priest) and others, Tim learned how to play the drums with power, accuracy, and timing unmatched by drummers twice or three times his age and people began to notice.
By 16 years old Tim was recruited by the band At Vance (AFM Records) and toured Europe for two years playing many great shows and festivals. This really helped Tim round out all of his abilities and professionalism to make him a drum force to be reckoned with.
After his time with At Vance Tim continued performing across Germany with various bands. With Tim's powerful rock solid drumming he quickly became in demand for studio work. Like the first TG-Toneworks, Pentagramm release with such notables as Willy Wagner (Rio Reiser, Xavier Naidoo, Edo Zanki), Leland Sklar (Toto, Phil Collins), Martin Stöck (Pur). Being in such demand and constantly being asked for lessons, Tim Founded his own drum School (Tightbeat drum school) in 2015.
Tim Breideband was contacted by the legendary German Hard Rockers Bonfire in Dec. 2015 to play the last remaining shows of the Glorious Tour after the departure of Harry Reischmann. Tim's drumming skills were quickly realized and he was asked to join Bonfire.
Catch Tim Breidband on Tour with Bonfire in 2016 on their 30th anniversary tour across Europe in support of the new release "Pearls" on U.D.R Records.
In late 2016 Tim recorded the drums for the new Bonfire Album “Byte The Bullet“ which was released in March 2017. This album hit the album charts in Germany and Switzerland.
After the release Tim went on tour all over europe with Bonfire to play the "Byte The Bullet European Tour". This tour included around 100 shows in many countries.
In late 2017 Tim recorded the drums for the Bonfire album "Temple Of Lies“ which will be released by AFM Records in April 2018.
After the album release bonfire will make it's way on the upcoming "Temple Of Lies" tour. On this years tourlegs Tim will play many big festivals for example: Wacken Open Air, Full Metal Mountain, Full Metal Holidays, Hamburg Metal Dayz.
In November Tim will accure as a drummer with Bonfire at the Bonfire and Friends tour. Big locations with great artists from the 80's like Joe Lynn Turner (ex Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen), Johnny Gioeli ( Hardline, Axel Rudi Pell), Bobby Kimball ( original singer of Toto), Phil Mogg ( UFO), Dave Bickler ( ex Survivor) and many more will then join the Bonfire musicians. Catch Tim on this dates and see Bonfire live on Stage.
contact
Escola de Samba GmbH & Co KG
Elisabethenstraße 13
D-65462 Ginsheim
phone: + 49 (0) 6144 - 33 55 84
mobile: + 49 (0) 175-726 89 10
fax: + 49 (0) 6144- 92 50 47
