Matthias Manasi
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| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
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| 📆 Years active | 1995–present |
Matthias Manasi is a German conductor and classical pianist. As of 2017 he is the music director of Nickel City Opera in Buffalo, New York. He has conducted operas and orchestral concerts both in his native Germany and internationally as well as performing as a pianist and harpsichordist.
Life and career[edit]
According to his official biography, Manasi studied piano, composition, chamber music, and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, graduating in piano from the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe in 1995 and in conducting from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart in 1996. After completing his studies, he began his career working as an assistant to the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck.[1]
Manasi's international conducting engagements have included concerts with the Berliner Camerata in 2017 and the Vienna Mozart Orchestra in 2013;[2][3] the premiere of the oratorio La Passione di padre Pio da Pietrelcina in Pietrelcina, Italy in 2012;[4] a production of La bohème at the International PuntaClassic Festival in Punta del Este, Uruguay in 2011;[5] and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Camerata Italiana in Benevento, Italy in 2010.[6] In a concert at the Liepāja International Stars Festival in Latvia in 2017, he played the piano and simultaneously conducted the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's rarely performed Piano Concerto No. 0.[7]
After he conducted their 2017 production of Mozart's The Impresario, Nickel City Opera engaged him as the company's new music director.[8]
Recordings[edit]
- Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro – Elizaveta Martirosyan (Berenice), Fanie Antonelou (Ernestina), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Don Parmenione), Mauro Utzeri (Martino), Garðar Thór Cortes (Count Alberto), Joan Ribalta (Don Eusebio); Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra; Matthias Manasi (harpsichord); Antonio Fogliani (conductor). Recorded live, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, 2005. Label: Naxos[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ Harwood Management (2016)."Matthias Manasi, Conductor". Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ↑ Berliner Philharmoniker. Calendar: 16 April 2017.. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ↑ Heute (27 June 2013). "Mozart, Kostüme und Touristen-Terror in Wien". Retrieved 28 September 2017 Template:Icon de.
- ↑ Gazzetta di Benevento (14 June 2012). "Cosimo Minicozzi ha composto l'Oratorio per soli Coro ed Orchestra La Passione di padre Pio da Pietrelcina". Retrieved 28 September 2017 (in Italian).
- ↑ Portal de América (14 January 2011). "La Bohème cierra el PuntaClassic con ambiciosa producción" (reprinted from El País). Retrieved 28 September 2017 (in Spanish).
- ↑ Il Quaderno (27 March 2010). "Solenne Concerto del Venerdì Santo con Koll e Di Palma". Retrieved 28 September 2017 (in Italian).
- ↑ Liepāja Symphony Orchestra (2017). "Piano Music Opens the International Stars Festival". Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ↑ Nickel City Opera (July 2017). Press release: "Nickel City Opera Names Maestro Matthias Manasi From Berlin As New Music Director For 10th Season". Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ↑ Naxos Records (2012). Liner notes: Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
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