Sebastian Manz | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) |
| Instrument(s) | Clarinet |
| Member of | SWR Symphonieorchester |
| Website | sebastianmanz |
Sebastian Manz (born 1986) is a German clarinetist. He is solo clarinetist in the SWR Symphonieorchester, international soloist and chamber musician. He is also active as an arranger and composer. [1]
Manz was born in Hanover, [2] the son of the pianists Wolfgang Manz and Julia Goldstein, daughter of the Soviet violinist Boris Goldstein. At the age of six, Manz was member of a boys' choir in Hanover. [3] He received his first clarinet lessons at the age of seven with Wilfried Berk at the Hanover Music School. From 1994 to 2002, Manz won numerous prizes at Jugend musiziert . [4] In 1997, at the age of eleven, he was accepted as a junior student at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. [5] From 2003 to 2010 he was a regular student there. He studied under Sabine Meyer and Reiner Wehle. [6] [7]
In 1999, Manz made his first tour as a soloist to Poland with the orchestra of the Hanover Music School. [8] He also performed at the EXPO 2000 as a soloist. [9]
In 2006, Manz was invited to the Schubertiade festival in Japan, where he performed both chamber music and as a soloist. [10]
In 2008, Manz won the first prize in clarinet at the ARD International Music Competition, which had not been awarded for 40 years. [11] This was immediately followed by performances with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the Collegium Musicum in Basel. [3]
Since 2010, he has been solo clarinetist in the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, since 2016 in the SWR Symphonieorchester. [12] [7]
In his debut at the Tonhalle Zürich on 4 May 2010 he played Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie conducted by their designated chief conductor Eugene Tzigane. [13] From the 2012–13 to the 2014–15 season he was an artist in the "Junge Wilde" series at the Konzerthaus Dortmund. [14]
Manz participates on the "Rhapsody in School" project founded by Lars Vogt, in which classical musicians go to schools to introduce students to their music. [15] [16] [17]
In the 2017–2018 season, he debuted with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra. [18]
Manz was invited to the Schwetzingen Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Heidelberger Frühling. [3] In the 2021–22 season, he was on an Asia tour with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with concerts in Taiwan, Japan and China. [19] His chamber music partners have been Felix Klieser, Tanja Tetzlaff and Wen Xiao Zheng, [19] performing Beethoven's Septet. [20] Manz played concerts with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Japan. [21] In the 2022–23 season, he was a guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. [2]
He is also active in the jazz field, predominantly with his own arrangements, which he realises mainly with the jazz musician Sebastian Studnitzky. [22]
Manz is married and has a daughter. They live in Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg. [23]
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