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CD "The quintets from Mozart and Beethoven for piano and winds"
Release date: 18 Januar 2012
A wonderful recording has been produced in Paris by the label Indésens. Together with the winners of the International ARD Music Competition Ramón Ortega Quero, Marc Trénel, David Fernandéz Alonso and the declared Mozart and Beethoven specialist Herbert Schuch, Sebastian Manz is playing the quintets from Mozart and Beethoven.
The programme of the CD can be heard also in concerts:
18.01. Riehen (CH), Dorfkirche
19.01. Düsseldorf, Tonhalle
22.01. Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus
29.01. Wien, Konzerthaus
12.02. Erlangen, Heinrich-Lades-Halle
14.05. Innsbruck, Tiroler Landeskonservatoriums
15.05. Salzburg, Mozarteum
Echo Klassik 2011
ECHO Klassik 2011 “Newcomer of the Year”
Sebastian Manz received an ECHO Klassik award for his outstanding performance of the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, released in 2010 on the prizewinner CD of the ARD Music Competition on the BR KLASSIK label.
News
July 27th, 2011
Debut at the Salzburg Festival. Sebastian Manz is a chamber-music partner of Christiane Karg, Renaud Capuçon, Katja Lämmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Clemens Hagen, Alois Posch, Albrecht Mayer, Magali Mosnier, Herbert Schuch, Gereon Kleiner, Leo Schmidinger and Martin Grubinger. Austrian radio station ORF 2 and the 3sat TV channel broadcast the opening concert at 11 am.
July 21st, 2011
It has just been announced that Sebastian Manz will receive the 2011 ECHO Klassik award in the category “Newcomer of the Year”.
February 18th, 2011
There has been released the first recording of the Duo Riul at the label GENUIN Classics. Sebastian Manz plays together with his duo partner, pianist Martin Klett, works by Brahms, Berg, Debussy, Lutoslawsky and Yun.
January 11th, 2011
Sebastian Manz makes his first appearance with ARD prizewinners Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe), Marc Trenel (bassoon) and David Alonso (horn) at concerts in Polling and Munich. The piano part in the Mozart and Beethoven quintets is being played by Herbert Schuch.
September 25th, 2010
On September 25, Sebastian Manz plays for the first time in his new position as solo clarinettist with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR broadcasting station.
May 12th, 2010
Another important debut, this time at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. Sebastian Manz is playing Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the concerto that won him the 57th ARD International Music Competition.
May 4th, 2010
Sebastian Manz debuts with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in the Zurich Tonhalle and takes his audience by storm. The North West German Philharmonic thrills under its new Principal Conductor Eugene Tzigane.
February 17th, 2009
“… He lets the mood topple into grotesque squeaking, gives helter-skelter cascades of notes sense and meaning and in his solo cadenzas enters into a furious dialogue with himself. That generates a power of suggestion that nobody in the Europasaal of the Osnabrückhalle arts centre can resist.”
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, February 17, 2009