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]
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]
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]
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]
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 Orchestra, 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]
2011 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Newcomer of the Year"[12]
2012 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Chamber Music Recording of the Year"[12]
2017 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Concert Recording of the Year" for the CD "Carl Maria von Weber, Complete works for clarinet."[40]
2020 Opus Klassik award in the category "Klassik ohne Grenzen" ("Classical Music without Borders") for the 2019 album A Bernstein Story with Sebastian Studnitzky[41]
^Manz, Sebastian; Trénel, Marc; Schuch, Herbert; Fernández Alonso, David; Ortega Quero, Ramón; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Beethoven, Ludwig van (2011). Quintets for piano & winds. Indé Sens!. OCLC886551821.
^Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Manz, Sebastian; Meister, Cornelius; Der Bayerische Rundfunk Symphonieorchester (2010). Klarinettenkonzert A-Dur, KV 622 Sebastian Manz, Emmanuel Ceysson, Hyeyoon Park erste Preisträger des Internationalen Musikwettbewerbs der ARD München = Clarinet concerto A major (in undetermined language). BRmedia. OCLC918453231.
^Brahms, Johannes; Lutosławski, Witold; Berg, Alban; Debussy, Claude; Yun, Isang; Duo Riul (2011). Duo Riul works for clarinet and piano ; Deutscher Musikwettbewerb Award Winners/Preisträger 2008 (in undetermined language). Deutscher Musikrat GENUIN. OCLC934564888.
^Arnold, Malcolm; Françaix, Jean; Hindemith, Paul; Nielsen, Carl; Variation5 (Musical group) (2017). Variation5. Berlin Classics. OCLC1031101913.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Weber, Carl Maria von; Manz, Sebastian; Klett, Martin; Méndez, Antonio; SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (2016). Complete works for clarinet. Berlin Classics. OCLC1004239405.
^Manz, Sebastian; Studnitzky, Sebastian; Stravinsky, Igor; Bernstein, Leonard; Reich, Steve (2019). A Bernstein story. Berlin Classics. OCLC1127292159.
^Copland, Aaron; Scaglione, Case; Württembergisches Kammerorchester (2020). Father Copland. Berlin Classics. OCLC1179002879.
^Nielsen, Carl; Lindberg, Magnus; Beykirch, Dominik; Manz, Dominik; Manz, Sebastian; Schaper, Lars Olaf; Trénel, Marc; Alonso, David; Tyske Radios Filharmoniske Orkester (Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern) (2020). Clarinet concertos (in undetermined language). Berlin Classics : Edel Germany : Südwestfunk : Saarländischer Rundfunk : [sælges på internettet]. OCLC1288429090.
^Schuch, Herbert; Manz, Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Gade, Niels W.; Schumann, Robert (2022). Brahms, Schumann, Gade. Berlin Classics. OCLC1338163311.