Sebastian Manz
Sebastian Manz (* 1986 in Hanover ) is a German clarinetist .
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Manz was born the son of the pianists Wolfgang Manz and Julia Goldstein, the daughter of the Russian violinist Boris Goldstein. At the age of six he was accepted into the Hanover Boys Choir and met with John Eliot Gardiner and Leonard Slatkin . He received his first clarinet lessons from Wilfried Berk when he was seven, and when he was eleven he was accepted as a young student at the Lübeck University of Music .
In September 2008 Manz ended his competitions. At the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, he won first prize as well as the audience award and special prizes. A few months earlier he and his piano partner Martin Klett had also won the German Music Competition as "Duo Riul". The pupil of Sabine Meyer and Rainer Wehle followed immediately afterwards with appearances with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with television recording , the RSO Stuttgart and the Collegium Musicum in Basel. Sebastian Manz received the ECHO Klassik in the category "Chamber Music Recording of the Year" for his quintets by Mozart and Beethoven together with Ramón Ortega Quero, Marc Trénel, David Alonso and Herbert Schuch . A year earlier he had for his performance of the clarinet concerto by Mozart also received the ECHO Klassik in the category “Young Artist of the Year”.
From the 2012/13 to 2014/15 season, Sebastian Manz was an artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus.
Sebastian Manz undertook his first tour as a soloist at the age of 13 with the orchestra of the Hanover Music School to Poland; in October 2000 the orchestra was on tour in France. He has also given concerts at EXPO 2000 and as a soloist with the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Göttingen Symphony, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 Sebastian Manz was invited to the “Schubertiade” festival in Japan, where he performed both chamber music and solo. Sebastian Manz has been principal clarinetist of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR since 2010 . From May 20 to 27, 2018 he performed together with the piano virtuoso Herbert Schuch at the music festival founded by the violinist Mirijam Contzen at Cappenberg Castle .
In the chamber music field he appears as “Duo Riul” and in the clarinet formation “Trio Devinne”. The clarinetist realizes his own arrangements of jazz and entertainment pieces with the pianist Christian Ruvolo.
Discography
- In rhythm . Works by Gerswhin, Reich, Piazzolla, Copland, Templeton, Villa-Lobos, Bernstein and Milhaud (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label: CAvi
- Mozart - Glière - Korngold . Sebastian Manz with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV 622 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister. Label: BR-Klassik
- Gottfried Hendrik Mann (1858-1904) . Clarinet Concerto op. 90. Feest Prelude op. 95. Violin Concerto op. 101. Suite No. 3 op. 98. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Akiko Amada, violin; Symphony Orchestra Osnabrück, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo
- Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff (1763-1806) . Clarinet Concerto in B flat major, Op. 5. Concerto for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra in B flat major. Symphony in E flat major. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Albrecht Holder, bassoon; Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo
- The quintets by Mozart and Beethoven for piano and wind instruments . Mozart: Quintet in E flat major KV. 452 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major op. 16 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. Label: Indésens
- DUO RIUL . Works by Brahms, Berg, Debussy, Lutoslawski, Yun (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label: GENUIN
Awards
- 1st prize at the ARD International Music Competition 2008
- Prize of the German Music Competition 2008: Duo clarinet / piano
- ECHO Klassik 2011 in the category "Young Artist of the Year"
- ECHO Klassik 2012 in the category "Chamber music recording of the year"
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| SURNAME | Manz, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |