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A wealth of excellent reviews plus first prize, audience prize and three more special prizes at the 2008 ARD Music Competition prove that Sebastian Manz is among the best of his generation anywhere in the world.
Active in concert life for many years, he welcomes new challenges as a soloist and in the chamber-music field.
News
April 16th, 2010
During April 16 and 18 Sebastian Manz and his piano partner Martin Klett will do as “Duo Riul” their first CD recording together in Berlin.
March 4th, 2010
Sebastian Manz will make his first appearance in Salzburg's Festspielhaus with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie under the direction of Simon Gaudenz as the soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
February 15th, 2010
Sebastian Manz will be heard in Jean Francaix's Clarinet Concerto on BR-Klassik. From 10.05 am, Bavarian Radio's classical music programme will be broadcasting the live recording of the Munich concert of January 6.
February 5th, 2010
Sebastian Manz is active in the “Rhapsody in School” project. Begun on the initiative of pianist Lars Vogt, the aim is for leading artists to visit schools and get children and teenagers interested and enthusiastic about music. Sebastian Manz's first school visit will be in Hof (Bavaria).
January 4th, 2010
Jean Francaix's Clarinet Concerto of 1967 is one of the most challenging in the clarinet literature. Sebastian Manz is playing it with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra for the first time, in Neumarkt, Weiden, Munich, Rosenheim and Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
December 3rd, 2009
From December 3 to 12, Sebastian Manz is touring with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie under the direction of Simon Gudenz in Minden, Herford, Bad Salzuflen, Detmold, Wilhelmshaven and Paderborn. The programme features Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
November 10th, 2009
The virtuoso concerto by Julius Rietz (1812–1877), a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and conductor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, is a true rediscovery for the clarinet repertoire. Sebastian Manz played it for the first time on November 10 and 11 in Solingen and Remscheid respectively with the Bergisch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Kuhn.
January 31st, 2009
„ … Als Höhepunkt des ersten Teils präsentierte Klarinettist Sebastian Manz das Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester in B-Dur von Ignaz Pleyel. Mit seinem beeindruckend virtuosen Spiel fesselte er die Zuhörer …”
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung WAZ, 31.01.2009