Recommended Four-Mallet Marimba Solos

If you’re interested in getting into new repertoire, I hope you find some inspiration below!

• Beginner:

  • Zivkovic: Funny Mallets, book 1

  • Nancy Zeltsman: Four Mallet Marimba Studies

  • Bart Quartier:  Image: 20 Children’s Songs for Marimba

• Intermediate:

• 4.3 Octave Marimba

  • Osnat Netzer: Taksim (Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba, by ZMF)

  • Ross Edwards: Marimba Dances

  • Ney Rosauro: Preludes

  • Blake Tyson:  A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun

  • Rich O’Meara: Restless

  • Nancy Zeltsman: Four Mallet Marimba Studies

  • Toshimitsu Tanaka: Two Movements

  • David Friedman: Marshmallow

• 5.0 Octave Marimba

  • Nebojsa J. Zivkovic: Ilijas

  • Nancy Zeltsman:  Four Mallet Studies

  • Takatsugu Muramatsu: Land

  • Ed Haddad:  Have You Met Lydia? (Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba, by ZMF)

  • Errolyn Wallin:  Remember, Marimba? (Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba, by ZMF)

• Chorales:

• Evelyn Glennie:  Three Chorales

• J.S. Bach: 371 Chorales

• Nancy Zeltsman:  Four Mallet Studies - Bernstein

• Advanced/College Auditions:

• Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water

• Joel Harrison: Fear of Silence

• Michael Burritt: Four Movements for Marimba

• (Also adaptations of Bach violin or cello music, piano or guitar music as well)