Robert Manno (born 1944, Bryn Mawr, Pa) is the composer of numerous chamber and orchestral works, song cycles and solo piano and choral works. The Atlanta Audio Society has called him "a composer of serious music of considerable depth and spiritual beauty."

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has described his music as “maximally personal and expressive” and ''Fanfare'' Magazine has said: "his instrumental compositions are shot through with powerful lyrical impulses...Manno’s music, in whatever guise, always sings."

Biography

After early instruction in piano and violin, Manno had a brief career as a jazz pianist in Philadelphia, then studied voice with Dolores Ferraro and composition with

Romeo Cascarino Romeo Cascarino (September 28, 1922 – January 8, 2002) was an American composer of classical music. Cascarino was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1922 and died in Norristown, Pennsylvania on January 8, 2002. He graduated from South Phil ...

. He moved to New York in 1965 studying jazz piano with

John Mehegan John Francis Mehegan (June 6, 1916 – April 3, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, lecturer and critic. Early life Mehegan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 6, 1916, although he sometimes gave the year as 1920. He began playing the vio ...

and Steve Kuhn and voice with

Cornelius Reid Cornelius Lawrence Reid ( Jersey City, NJ, February 7, 1911 - New York City, NY, February 3, 2008), was a well-known vocal pedagogue in New York City, specialist in the bel canto technique, and author of books on bel canto. Life Childhood ...

. He later continued his composition studies at the 28th Annual Composers Conference in Johnson, VT with

Donald Erb Donald Erb (January 17, 1927 – August 12, 2008) was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Orchestra and ''Ritual Observances''. Early years Erb was born in Youngstown, Ohio, graduate ...

and

Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions ca ...

. Manno has received the Ernest Bloch Award, First Prize at the Delius Festival and many

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Grants and

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Awards. His music has been performed throughout the US, Italy and Wales, UK and has been broadcast on American Public Media’s "Performance Today". He holds a degree in voice from the Manhattan School of Music and an M.A. in music composition from New York University. He was a member of both the MET Chorus (1977-2001) and NYCO Chorus (1967–77) and appeared as a baritone soloist in recital, chamber music programs, and with the Westchester Symphony and Alvin Ailey Dance Company. After leaving the MET Chorus, he served as an assistant conductor at the MET in 2002 working backstage on Rigoletto and Falstaff (with James Levine and Bryn Terfel). He and his wife, former MET violinist Magdalena Golczewski, reside in the Northern Catskills where they formed the Windham Chamber Music Festival, a concert series now in its thirteenth season. He is Music Director and Conductor of the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra and Catskill Mountain Chamber Orchestra.

External links

*http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=25277 *https://www.npr.org/2006/04/21/5354854/into-the-woods-and-out-to-sea *http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/?year=2007&month=4&day=3 *http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/?year=2007&month=10&day=30 *https://www.npr.org/2005/10/14/4959984/romeo-cascarino-and-dvorak *http://recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogApr01.html *http://www.catskillmtn.org/events/special-events/2007-10-06-catskill-mountain-chamber-orchestra-presents.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Manno, Robert American male composers 21st-century American composers Combs College of Music alumni 1944 births Living people 21st-century American male musicians