The British conductor Andrew Manze’s work is characterized by his extensive knowledge of the repertory, his rare skill as a communicator and his boundless energy. Following a degree in Classical Philology at Cambridge, he studied violin and became a leading specialist in historical performance practice. Since 2018/19 he has been principal guest conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. From 2014 to 2023 he was chief conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hanover. He was also artistic director of the Helsingborg Symfoniorkester for six years, and has been first principal guest conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season include his returns to the Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Highlights of 2022/23 included his opera debut with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Schoenberg’s Erwartung at the Bavarian State Opera, and his debuts with the Boston and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.
Andrew Manze has released a large number of award-winning CDs as a violinist. He has recorded numerous works by Mendelssohn and Mozart with the NDR Radio Philharmonic. Their first Mendelssohn album was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award. Andrew Manze has recorded the complete symphonies of Vaughan Williams with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and was a visiting professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has contributed to new editions by Bärenreiter and Breitkopf & Härtel and also teaches, broadcasts and writes about music. In 2011, Andrew Manze received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in Stockholm.
