Level 42, TOTO, Tower Of Power,Miles Davis, Prince & the N.P.G., Mezzoforte, Uzeb, Steps Ahead, Living Colour, Jungle Funk, The Police, The Roots, Sixun, Dapp Theory, Jazzkantine, die Fanta4, Sting, Nils Landgren, Hermit & the Ferryman....
Mark King, Alain Caron, T.M.Stevens, Nathan East, Abe Laboriel, Marcus Miller, Tony Levin, Pino Palladino, Richard Bona, Oskar Rozsa, Jan Jakubec, Marek "Marta" Minarik...
Phil Gould, Manu Katché, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, Paco Sery, Jeff Porcaro, Gary Husband, Andy Gangadeen, Sheila E.,Will Calhoun, Rayford Griffin, Michael Bland, John Blackwell, Gerald Heyward, Jojo Mayer, Benny Greb, Dirk Erchinger..& m.o.
was born in 1968 and came from musician family. He took his first piano lesson at age of 8., but his passion for groove was stronger and he started to study drums at age of 14 at the Conservatory of Music in Bratislava - Slovakia. Emil started to work professionaly at age of 17 when joined one of the most popular Slovak new wave band "BANKET". Since then he has been working as a "first call" session and studio drummer with many artists in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Europe. He has also worked for major labels as Sony/ BMG, Universal, EMI, Mute, etc. and with his sound he already participated on more than 50 CDs, 4 Musicals, 5 O.S.T, he play many of Tv shows (f.e. "Czech Pop Idol" ), club gigs and international festivals. Emil has worked i.e. with Ivan Kral, Delmar Brown, Ash Band, Richard Müller, Gustav Brom big band, 1999-2003 as drummer, later as band leader and musical director for Landgraf Gmbh Germany (musical production "Blue Jeans"), co-produced Henry Toth & "Big H" album Spirit of memory (feat. Lew Soloff, Vesta Maxey), Pajky Pajk etc., he already participated on 'export' of Czech musical "Hamlet" to USA and took a part of reedings for Abingdon Theatre company in New York (2004, 2005).
Emil Frátrik (*1968), jeden z najvytaženejších hrácov na oboch brehoch rieky Moravy so širokým žánrovým záberom. Pocas štúdií bicích nástrojov na Bratislavskom Štátnom Konzervatóriu (1982-1988) sa stal clenom skupiny BANKET (R. Müller, A. Šeban, S. Jurík), od tohto obdobia patrí k žiadaným štúdiovým a koncertným hrácom. Jeho diskografia zahrna viac ako 50 LP/CD. Je zmluvným hrácom firiem SONOR a od r.2008 Anatolian Cymbals
Spolupráce a aktivity:
1986 – 1991:
Banket, A'conto, A.Bartošová, VV systém, Big Band Bratislavského Konzervatória, R.Grigorov, M. Gombitová (studio)
1991-1994:
Ash Band (Šeban, Minárik, Rist - turné: CZ, H, D, NL, E, DK, GB), Tutu (CZ), B.Balogh (studio), P.Lipa, La Rubia,
R. Stanke (studio), D. Ursíny, A. Bartošová, M. Žbirka (studio), Tublatanka, P. Habera (studio), Ivan Král (USA), Janek Ledecký
1995-1998:
Habera (live), Madre (J. Griglák, J. Tatár), P.P.F (Šeban, Müller, Rózsa + USA trip - SXSW Austin/Tx), Demikát (Grexa, Šeban, Rózsa, neskôr Kovalcík, Tóth), Big H (Tóth, Minárik, Cekovský), Ivan Král, Delmar Brown (USA), J.Ledecký, M. Žbirka (studio)
1999-2003
Nemecko: hrác, neskôr hud. producent a bandleader muzikál "Blue Jeans", (Landgraf Gmbh, turné D, A, CH, L, B)
Ceská rep.: Ivan Král, clen doprovodnej kapely projektu "Královny /Králové popu v Opere"
Slovensko: TEAM, Lucia Šorálová (studio, live)
2004-2006:
Clen doprovodnej kapely Cesko hledá Superstár (2004, 2005, 2006), externý hud. dramaturg Tv Nova (CZ) (dramaturgia, produkcia hudby), spolupráce s R. Müllerom ( live "Slávik '06" ), I. Králom, M. Vargom (live), M.Pavlíckom,B.Basikovou (TV, live), L. Machálkovou, I.Csákovou, J.Ledeckým, O. Soukupem, F.Slovácek Big Band (CZ), Ash band (Šeban, Minárik)..a mnohými dalšími ...
Kapely, sólisti '2006- 20O7:
Burma Jones (CZ), Michael Foret (studio, CZ), Ivan Král,
P. Habera (studio), Deep'n Space, + klubové a festivalové hrania ako session player
ďaľšie spolupráce v r. 2007 live/štúdio:
Müller, Král, Kollár, Rollins, Csáková, Horváth, Bende, Bílá, Strihavka, ( CZ),Finalisti CHS '06, Burma Jones (CZ), Žáha (CZ), Bigband G. Broma, Deep'n space, The Hermit and the Ferryman Quartet ( Rózsa, Krajnák, Priehradník), A. Šeban
r. 2008:
Oskar Rózsa Projects, Peter Lipa Band, Milo Suchomel band, Juraj Griglák Projects, Finally, Burma Jones, Richard Müller, rôzne štúdiové spolupráce...
r.2009
Finally, Demikaat, Peter Lipa Band, Marian Cekovsky Band, Anita Soul, štúdiové projekty
Muzikály:
Rusalka, Hamlet ( v r. 2004/2005, export do New Yorku, readingy pre Abingdon Theatre corp.), Galileo, Elixír života (CZ)
Filmová hudba:
"Fontána pre Zuzanu 2 ",
"Vášnivý bozk",
"Muzika"
TV shows
ANNO 2006 ( TV NOVA /CZ),
TýTý 2006 (CT)
(selected)
with:
Banket, VV System, A. Bartosova, R. Grigorov, A conto, P.S., TUTU, P. Lipa, Ash Band, P.P.F, Team, P. Habera, Lucia Soralova, Leona Machalkova, Janek Ledecky, Henry Toth, Delmar Brown & Big H, Demikat, Dezo Ursiny, Ivan Kral, Blue Jeans musical, Gustav Brom BigBand, Pajky Pajk, DeepnSpace, Milo Suchomel Band, Juraj Griglak Projects, Burma Jones, Oskar Rozsa Projects
