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Among the most distinguished classical artists of his generation, clarinetist JON MANASSE is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, uniquely glorious sound and charismatic performing style. Jon Manasse's solo appearances include New York City performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Hunter College's Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse, Columbia University, Rockefeller University and The Town Hall, fourteen tours of Japan and Southeast Asia - all with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, debuts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Osaka and acclaimed concerto performances with Gerard Schwarz and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, both at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and at the prestigious Tokyu Bunkamura Festival in Tokyo. With orchestra, he has been guest soloist with the Augsburg, Dayton, Evansville and National philharmonics, Canada’s Symphony Nova Scotia, the National Chamber Orchestra and the Alabama, Annapolis, Bozeman, Dubuque, Florida West Coast, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Jackson, Oakland East Bay, Pensacola, Princeton, Richmond and Stamford symphonies, under the batons of Leslie B. Dunner, Peter Leonard, Matthew Savery, Alfred Savia, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Richard Westerfield, Michael Morgan and Leif Bjaland. He also presented the world premieres of James Cohn's Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra at the international ClarinetFest '97 at Texas Tech University and, in 2005, of Steven R. Gerber’s Clarinet Concerto with the National Philharmonic. Of special distinction was Mr. Manasse’s 2002 London debut in a Barbican Centre performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Jon Manasse’s current season is highlighted by his debuts with the orchestras of Naples and Wyoming and a return to the Stamford Symphony Orchestra. With pianist Jon Nakamatsu, he continues to tour throughout the United States as half of the acclaimed Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. Looking ahead to the 2009-2010 season, Mr. Manasse will join the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Neal Gittleman, for the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s first Clarinet Concerto. An avid chamber musician, Jon Manasse has been featured in New York City programs with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade Theatre (on Lincoln Center's "Great Performers Series"), The Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse and Merkin Concert Hall; at the Aspen Music Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Colorado Springs Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival and France’s Festival International des Arts, as well as the chamber music festivals of Bridgehampton, Cape and Islands, Crested Butte, Georgetown, St. Bart’s, Seattle and Tucson. He has also been the guest soloist with many of the leading chamber ensembles of the day, including The Amadeus Trio and Germany’s Trio Parnassus and the American, Borromeo, Colorado, Lark, Manhattan, Moscow, Orion, Rossetti Shanghai and Ying String Quartets, and has collaborated with violinist Joshua Bell and pianists Spencer Myer and Jon Nakamatsu. Jon Manasse is also principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In 2008 he was also appointed principal clarinetist and Ensemble Member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City. As one of the nation's most highly sought-after wind players, has also served as guest principal clarinetist of the New York Pops Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New Jersey, Saint Louis and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, under the batons of Gerard Schwarz, Zdenek Macal, Jerzy Semkow, Robert Craft and Hugh Wolff. For several seasons, he was also the principal clarinetist of the New York Chamber Symphony. Mr. Manasse has been a guest clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic in concerts conducted by Valery Gergiev and André Previn, and, during the 2003-04 season, served as the principal clarinetist of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, performing under the batons of Artistic Director James Levine and, among others, Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Jurowski. Jon Manasse has six critically acclaimed CDS on the XLNT label: the complete clarinet concerti of Weber, with Lukas Foss and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; the complete works for clarinet and piano of Weber, with pianist Samuel Sanders; recording premieres of 20th Century clarinet works; "Clarinet Music from 3 Centuries," including Mozart's Clarinet Quintet (with the Shanghai Quartet), as well as music by Spohr, Gershwin and James Cohn; James Cohn’s Clarinet Concerto #2; and the concerti of Mozart, Nielsen and Copland, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also available are his recordings of Steven R. Gerber’s Clarinet Concerto with Vladimir Lande and the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony on the Arabesque label and Lowell Liebermann’s Quintet for Clarinet, Piano and String Trio on KOCH International. His debut CD with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, a harmonia mundi usa album of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas, was released to international rave reviews, early in 2008. Jon Manasse is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with David Weber. Mr. Manasse was a top prize winner in the Thirty-Sixth International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition. Currently, he is an official "Performing Artist" of both the Buffet Crampon Company and Vandoren, the Parisian firms that are the world's oldest and most distinguished clarinet maker and reed maker, respectively. Since 1995, he has been Associate Professor of Clarinet at the Eastman School of Music; in the fall of 2007 Mr. Manasse joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Juilliard School. Jon Manasse and his duo-partner, the acclaimed pianist Jon Nakamatsu, serve as Artistic Directors of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, an appointment announced during summer 2006. |
| BAERMANN Adagio BOLCOM Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra BUSONI Concertino for Clarinet & Small Orchestra, Op.48 BRUCH Concerto for Clarinet & Viola, Op. 88 COHN, James Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra, Op.62 (1988) Concerto #2 for Clarinet & String Orchestra, Op. 75 ("Evocations") COPLAND Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra (1948) CORIGLIANO Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra (1977) DEBUSSY Premiere rapsodie (orchestrated 1911) FINZI Concerto in c for Clarinet & Strings, Op.31 FRANCAIX Concerto GERBER, Steven R. Concerto GERSHWIN 3 Preludes (arr. J.Cohn for clarinet & strings) HINDEMITH Concerto (1947) |
LIEBERMANN Concerto for Clarinet (world premiere 2009-2010) MOZART Concerto in A, K.622 NIELSEN Concerto, Op. 57 (1928) PISTON Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra (1967) ROSSINI Variations in C (1809) SHAW, Artie Concerto for Clarinet (1940) SPOHR Concerto # 1 in c, Op. 26 Concerto # 2 in E-Flat, Op. 57 Concerto # 3 in f Concerto # 4 in e Variations on a Theme of Danzi, Op. 81 STAMITZ Concerto # 3 in B-Flat Concerto # 11 in E-Flat STRAUSS Duet-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings & Harp (1947) WEBER Andante & Rondo ungarese in c Concertino in E-Flat, J. 109 Concerto # 1 in f, J. 114 Concerto # 2 in E-Flat, J. 118
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BRAHMS - CLARINET SONATAS, Op. 120 with Jon Nakamatsu, pianist harmonia mundi usa CD: 907430 |
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LOWELL LIEBERMANN Quintet for Clarinet, Piano & String Trio with Elizabeth Kipper, violinist Matthew Dane, violist Thomas Heinrich, cellist David Korevaar, pianist KOCH CD: KIC-CD-7743 |
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STEVEN R. GERBER Clarinet Concerto with Vladimir Lande/St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony ARABESQUE CD: Z6803 |
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JON MANASSE PLAYS 3 CLARINET CONCERTOS Mozart: Concerto in A, K. 622 Nielsen: Concerto, Op. 57 Copland: Concerto with Kirk Trevor/Slovak Radio Symphony XLNT CD: 18011 |
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JAMES COHN-CONCERTOS AND POEMS Concerto #2 for Clarinet & Strings with Vakhtang Jordania/Latvian National Symphony XLNT CD: 18010 |
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JON MANASSE PLAYS CLARINET MUSIC FROM 3 CENTURIES Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, K. 581* Spohr: Fantasy & Variations, Op. 81* Gershwin-Cohn: 3 Preludes** Cohn: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 62** * with The Shanghai Quartet **with The XLNT Sinfonietta XLNT CD: 18009 |
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THE COMPLETE CLARINET MUSIC OF CARL MARIA VON WEBER Vol. I - chamber music with Samuel Sanders, piano; Manhattan String Quartet XLNT CD: 18004 |
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THE COMPLETE CLARINET MUSIC |
| "A [Newport Music Festival] 'Schubertabend' offered another discovery, Jon Manasse, a sublime clarinetist. His playing completely overshadowed the singing in The Shepherd on the Rock, and afterward he and Dmitry Sitkovetsky led a deeply moving performance of the Octet for strings and winds." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Manasse's work was a revelation. One comes to expect players in this festival to come to the stage with the full complement of stylistic knowledge and a formidable command of his/her instrument. In fare from the Brahms Trio for Clarinet, Piano and Cello to Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Manasse's spotlight moments proved him a player of incomparable skill and technique, with a liquid tone over the entire range of the instrument and an almost metaphysical command of his instrument's overtone structure." TUCSON CITIZEN "Jon Manasse, a widely respected soloist, brought freshness and vitality to Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. In this glorious work, he displayed a lustrous tone, an ample technique and intuitive musicality that lifted this super-familiar work about the routine and into the sublime - where the Concerto belongs. As lovely and unforgettable as the slow movement is, that Adagio was lifted even higher than usual by the sensitive collaboration of soloist and conductor. Particularly notable was the reprise of that gorgeous main theme, sweetly whispered like some wonderfully intimate expression of love." ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS "For Copland's jazzy, sentimental Clarinet Concerto, Jon Manasse was a beguiling soloist, shaping the languid melodies of the first movement sweetly and zipping nicely through the up-tempo second movement." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "Jon Manasse plays with a smooth, evenly modulated tone and an extroverted view of the music." THE NEW YORK TIMES "Jon Manasse is a young clarinetist of obvious talent. He possesses a smooth tone which he bends effortlessly. The result is truly lovely playing of these works [Weber: Clarinet Concertos; Concertino; Andante and Hungarian Rondo]. You'll not go wrong with this disc; it equals or supersedes all others." "And there was a heavenly moment when clarinetist Jon Manasse fluttered above the duet like a cherub tumbling in the clouds of a Mannerist painting." |
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10/20/2008 (7:30pm) DE BLASIIS CHAMBER MUSIC (Glens Falls, NY) 2/28/2009 (2pm) BROOKLYN MUSEUM 3/1/2009 (2pm) DIA: BEACON (Beacon, NY) 3/11/2009 (8pm) ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND |
