Andrew Manze

Andrew Manze in 2005

Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965) is an English conductor and former violinist.

Manze was born in Beckenham, United Kingdom. In September 2014 he took up the position of Principal Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hannover.[1] Between 2006 and 2014 he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra[2] in Sweden. He made a number of recordings with them including Beethoven’s Eroica (Harmonia Mundi) and Stenhammar Piano Concerti (Hyperion) and a cycle of the Brahms’ symphonies.[3] Manze was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from September 2010 to August 2014.[4]

As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras. Manze’s recent and future debuts include New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra.[5]

After reading Classics at Cambridge University, Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice. He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 to 2007. Both as a conductor and violinist Manze has released a variety of CDs, many of them award-winning.

Manze is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Bärenreiter and Breitkopf and Härtel. He also teaches, edits and writes about music, as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television.

In 2011 Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm. Previous winners include Ligeti, Kagel, Saariaho, Panula, Gidon Kremer, and Anne Sofie von Otter.[6]

References

  1. ↑ NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
  2. ↑ Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
  3. ↑ Intermusica discography
  4. ↑ Intermusica
  5. ↑ biography
  6. ↑ "Andrew Manze named 2011 Rolf Schock Prize laureate in Musical Arts". Intermusica. 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.

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