Sebastian_Manz

Sebastian Manz

Sebastian Manz

German clarinetist (born 1986)

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]

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Life and work

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]

Personal life

Manz is married and has a daughter. They live in Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg.[23]

Discography

  • 2008 Die Quintette von Mozart und Beethoven für Klavier und Bläser. Mozart: Quintett Es-Dur KV. 452 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and fagott. Beethoven: Quintett Es-Dur op. 16 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and fagott. Label: Indésens[24]
  • 2008 Mozart – Glière – Korngold. Sebastian Manz with Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major, K 622. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister. Label: BR Klassik[25]
  • 2011 DUO RIUL. Works by Brahms, Berg, Debussy, Lutoslawski, Yun (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label: GENUIN[26]
  • 2012 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; Symphonieorchester Osnabrück, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo[27]
  • 2012 Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff (1763–1806). Clarinet Concerto op. 5. Concerto for Clarinet, Bassoon & Orchestra. Symphony in E flat major. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Albrecht Holder, bassoon; Symphonieorchester Osnabrück, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo[28]
  • 2013 In Rhythm. Works by Gerswhin, Reich, Piazzolla, Copland, Templeton, Villa-Lobos, Bernstein und Milhaud (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label:CAvi[29]
  • 2014 Fuchs & Brahms, Clarinet Quintets, Sebastian Manz, Danish String Quartet[30]
  • 2017 variation5, Compositions by Malcolm Arnold, Jean Françaix, Paul Hindemith and Carl Nielsen. Magali Mosnier, Ramón Ortega Quero, Sebastian Manz, David Fernández Alonso and Marc Trénel, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics[31]
  • 2017 Carl Maria von Weber, Complete works for clarinet. Sebastian Manz, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchetra, Antonio Méndez, casalQuartett, Martin Klett, piano and Lars Olaf Schaper, Double bass, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics[32]
  • 2019 A Bernstein Story, Compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Strawinsky and Steve Reich. Sebastian Studnitzky and Sebastian Manz, Label: EDEL / Berlin Classics[33]
  • 2020 Father Copland, Compositions by Aaron Copland. WKO Heilbronn, Case Scaglione, Céline Moinet, Sebastian Manz, Wolfgang Bauer, Label: EDEL / Berlin Classics[34]
  • 2020 Clarinet Concertos – Nielsen & Lindberg. Nielsen: Serenata in vano, CNW 69. Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57. Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, conductors: Dominik Beykirch & Magnus Lindberg) Label: Berlin Classics[35]
  • 2022 Compositions for clarinet and piano by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Sebastian Manz clarinet, Herbert Schuch piano, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics[36]

Awards

References

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    "FESTIVAL — PROGRAMM — ARD-PREISTRÄGER Wen Xiao Zheng, Sebastian Manz, Tecchler Trio, Benjamin Engeli, Esther Hoppe — Herrenhäuser Gärten, Hannover" (in German). Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
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    Mann, Gottfried; Manz, Sebastian; Yamada, Akiko; Bäumer, Hermann; Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester (2012). Feest preludium : op. 95 ; Clarinet concerto op. 90 ; Violin concerto op. 101 ; Troisième suite op. 98. CPO. OCLC 906158661.
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