Anne Manson

Anne Manson (born 1961, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) is an American orchestral and opera conductor. She was music director of the Kansas City Symphony from 1999-2003, and is currently music director of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.^[1] In 1994, she became the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, leading them in Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky to critical acclaim.^[2]

Manson studied pre-med at Harvard University before switching to music, then studied music on full scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London; there she became a conductor.^[3] She was conductor of London's Mecklenburgh Opera from 1988 to 1996, then served as an assistant to Claudio Abbado.^[4] She has guest-conducted the Royal Swedish Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and many other ensembles.^[5] She has released four recordings, three of them focused on works of Philip Glass.^[6]

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