Andrew Manze

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Andrew Manze (2005)

Andrew Manze (born January 14, 1965 in Beckenham / London ) is a British violinist and conductor in the field of historical performance practice .

Life

Andrew Manze studied classical philology at Cambridge , then violin with Simon Standage . In the Netherlands he continued his studies with Lucy van Dael and Marie Leonhardt . In 1986 he was one of the co-founders of the "Ensemble Romanesca" alongside the lutenist Nigel North and the harpsichordist John Toll.

Since the late 1980s he became known as a baroque violinist. In 1988 Ton Koopman appointed him to succeed Monica Huggett as concertmaster in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra . From 2003 to 2007 he led the leading English baroque orchestra, The English Concert , succeeding the orchestra's founder, Trevor Pinnock . He also played under Simon Standage .

From 2006 to 2014 he was chief conductor of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra . He often appears as a chamber music partner with harpsichordist Richard Egarr . Numerous CD recordings with the above mentioned musicians for the Harmonia Mundi label mark his path.

Since a concert at the BBC Proms in 2012, he has been regarded as a specialist in the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams , as he knew how to inspire the audience there with the composer's symphonies 4, 5 and 6, performed in one evening. In 2016 he presented a complete recording of all nine Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . Manze also works with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which plays on old instruments .

Manze has directed the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover since 2014 . In 2018 he listed Benjamin Britten's indictment against the war, which was regarded as epochal, under the title “War Requiem” - musical understanding between nations.

Manze sees himself, as he explained in an interview with the music critic Stefan Sigrist of the daily newspaper Junge Welt , as one of the “people from the historical music world”. He needs the historical perspective on the music. But - in relation to Mozart and the French Revolution - the composer starts from music. "He is in music, the revolution is in his music too."

Awards

Movie

  • Andrew Manze - A Conductor's Journey. Portrait / report. By Felix Borrmann, Jannes Kuhlmann, Jan-Philipp Peters, Pit Fröhlich. NDR , 2017. online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kislinger: Ö1 bis Zwei , Ö1 , October 7, 2016, 1:00 p.m. to 1:55 p.m.
  2. ↑ Andrew Manze becomes the new chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 26, 2013, p. 4.
  3. ↑ "The passion makes the difference", in: Junge Welt, August 3, 2019. There also a large part of the information in this section of the article.
  4. ^ Message in the Westfälische Nachrichten of November 2, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Manze, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenham (London)