Awards & Winners

Andrew Manze

Date of Birth 14-January-1965
Place of Birth Beckenham
(Kent, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality England
Also know as Manze, Andrew
Profession Violinist, Conductor
Andrew Manze is an English violinist and conductor. Manze has been Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, since September 2006. He has made a number of recordings with them including Beethoven’s Eroica and Stenhammar Piano Concerti and a cycle of the Brahms’ symphonies. As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras. Manze’s future guest conductor engagements include debuts with Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Residentie Orkest and Hallé Orchestra. In the United States, Manze makes his debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. After reading Classics at Cambridge University, Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice. He became Associate Director of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of The English Concert from 2003 to 2007. Both as a conductor and violinist Manze has released a variety of CDs, many of them award-winning.

Awards by Andrew Manze

Check all the awards nominated and won by Andrew Manze.

2011


Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts
(\u201CFor his virtuoso and insightful interpretations as a violinist and ensemble leader; his unique, rousing style as a conductor; and his inspired ability to communicate with the audienc.)