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Jonathan Manson (Cello, Viola da gamba) |
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Born: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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The Scottish cellist and viola da gamba player, Jonthan Manson, was born in Edinburgh to a musical family. He received his formative training at the International Cello Centre under the direction of Jane Cowan, later going on to study with Steven Doane and Christel Thielmann at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. A growing fascination for early music led him to Holland, where he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Jonathan Manson enjoys a busy and varied career as a performer on both cello and viola da gamba. For ten years he was the principal cellist of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Director: Ton Koopman), with whom he performed and recorded more than 150 J.S. Bach cantatas and, together with Yo-Yo Ma, Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos. Nowadays he devotes most of his time to chamber music, performing repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the Romantic. He is a founding member of the viol consort Phantasm, which has toured worldwide and made more than twenty recordings; several of these have won major prizes, including Gramophone Awards in 1997, 2004 and 2017. He is also the cellist of the London Haydn Quartet, whose latest volume of Haydn’s complete quartets (Op. 64) has just been released on the Hyperion label. Highlights of their last seasons included tours to Australia, Japan, Canada and the USA.
A long-standing partnership with the harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock has led to critically acclaimed recordings of the J.S. Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and, together with Rachel Podger, Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concert. In recent years Jonathan and Trevor Pinnock have joined forces with flautist Emmanuel Pahud and violinists Matthew Truscott and Sophie Gent, leading to two best-selling recordings of J.S. Bach and tours of Europe, the USA and the Far East.
Jonathan Manson frequently appears as a principal and continuo player with the Dunedin Consort (Director: John Butt), Arcangelo (Director: Jonathan Cohen), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and other leading early music groups. Recent highlights have included recitals with Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Peter Whelan and Laurence Cummings, being invited to play the solo viol part in George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House, and an appearance as viola da gamba soloist with the Wiener Philharmoniker. As a concerto soloist he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre, as well as further afield, in Hong Kong, Potsdam, the Haydn Festspiele in Eisenstadt and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Equally passionate about teaching, Jonathan Manson has been Professor for Baroque cello and viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2003, and he is a regular guest at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Welsh College. He has also been invited to teach on numerous courses around the world, including those in Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, Portugal, Iceland and the USA, as well as closer to home, at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Jonathan Manson lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and young daughter, and their golden retriever. |
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Sources:
Jonathan Manson Website
| Photo 05: Marco Borggreve; Photos 01-03, 06: Eric Richmond; Photo 04: Giorgia Bertazzi;
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (November 2019) |
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Jonathan Manson : Short Biography | Bach Discography: Recordings of Instrumental Works
Reviews of Instrumental Recordings: Bach from Phantasm |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Harry Bicket |
Cello |
[C-1] (2007): Selections from BWV 82a/1,3, BWV 170/1, BWV 208/9, BWV 232/10,26, BWV 244/5,6,39,52, BWV 245/7,30 [w/ counter-tenor David Daniels |
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John Butt |
Cello |
[CV-2] (2020, Video): BWV 54, BWV 170
[C-3] (2020): BWV 82, BWV 32, BWV 106 [Viola da gamba] |
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Stephen Cleobury |
Cello |
[C-1] (1999): BWV 140, BWV 12, BWV 147/Chorales, BWV 22/5, BWV 230, BWV 226, BWV 234, BWV 237, BWV 243, BWV 373, BWV 386 |
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Jonathan Cohen |
Cello |
Member of Arcangelo:
[C-1] (2015): BWV 170, BWV 54, BWV 82; Sinfonias BWV 52/1, BWV 174/1
[V-1] (2013): BWV 232 |
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Roy Goodman |
Viola da gamba |
Member of European Union Baroque Orchestra:
[V-3] (1996): BWV 247 |
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Ton Koopman |
Cello, Violoncello piccolo, Viola da gamba |
Member of Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra:
Cantatas Vol. 1 (1994): CD-2: BWV 106; CD-3: BWV 4, BWV 4: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 3 (1995): CD-1: BWV 63, BWV 162, BWV 155, BWV 63: Appendix, BWV 162: Appendix; CD-2: BWV 22, BWV 23, BWV 163, BWV 165; CD-3: BWV 161, BWV 208
Cantatas Vol. 4 (1996) : CD-1: BWV 198
CantatasVol. 6 (1997): CD-1: BWV 76, BWV 75; CD-2:BWV 190, reconstructed by T. Koopman, BWV 179, BWV 59, BWV 69; CD-3: BWV 50, BWV 186, BWV 104, BWV 69a, BWV 50: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 7 (1997): CD-1: BWV 25, BWV 95, BWV 144, BWV 67, BWV 24; CD-2: BWV 136, BWV 184, BWV 105, BWV 148; CD-3: BWV 147, BWV 181, BWV 173, BWV 181: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 9 (1998): CD-1: BWV 48, BWV 154, BWV 138, BWV 173a; CD-2: BWV 37, BWV 153, BWV 166, BWV 86, BWV 70; CD-3: BWV 66, BWV 194
Cantatas Vol. 10 (1998): CD-1: BWV 119, BWV 134, BWV 44, BWV 73; CD-2: BWV 20, BWV 2, BWV 101; CD-3: BWV 180, BWV 130, BWV 134a
Cantatas Vol. 11 (1998): CD-1: BWV 127, BWV 5, BWV 94; CD-2: BWV 41, BWV 7, BWV 139; CD-3: BWV 115, BWV 113, BWV 10
Cantatas Vol. 12 (2000): CD-1: BWV 135, BWV 124, BWV 121, BWV 111; CD-2: BWV 99, BWV 78, BWV 114; CD-3: BWV 91, BWV 107, BWV 116, BWV 8, BWV 8: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 13 (2000): CD-1: BWV 1, BWV 62, BWV 96, BWV 62: Appendix; CD-2: BWV 38, BWV 93, BWV 33; CD-3: BWV 133, BWV 122, BWV 92
Cantatas Vol. 14 (2000-2001): CD-1: BWV 68, BWV 6, BWV 74, BWV 126; CD-2: BWV 26, BWV 125, BWV 178, BWV 1045; CD-3: BWV 103, BWV 42, BWV 123, BWV 103: Appendix, BWV 42: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 15 (2001-2002): CD-1: BWV 110, BWV 146, BWV 28; CD-2: BWV 168, BWV 175, BWV 87, BWV 3; CD-3: BWV 176, BWV 108, BWV 85, BWV 128, BWV 183
Cantatas Vol. 16 (2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 82, BWV 27, BWV 16, BWV 16: Appendix, BWV 82: Appendix; CD-2: BWV 170, BWV 102, BWV 79; CD-3: BWV 49, BWV 43, BWV 39, BWV 43: Appendix
Cantatas Vol. 17 (2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 169, BWV 32, BWV 58, BWV 84; CD-2: BWV 19, BWV 13, BWV 56; CD-3: BWV 35, BWV 17, BWV 57
Cantatas Vol. 18 (2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 55, BWV 47, BWV 157, BWV 45, BWV 47: Appendix; CD-2: BWV 52, BWV 187, BWV 151, BWV 98; CD-3: BWV 137, BWV 164, BWV 36
Cantatas Vol. 19 (1999, 2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 129, BWV 159, BWV 174, BWV 72; CD-2: BWV 171, BWV 51, BWV 145, BWV 188; CD-3: BWV 88, BWV 117, BWV 193, reconstructed by T. Koopman
Cantatas Vol. 20 (2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 120a, BWV 156; Aria for Soprano BWV 1127; CD-2: BWV 149, BWV 14, BWV 29, BWV 192; CD-3: BWV 120, BWV 11, BWV 9, BWV 112
Cantatas Vol. 21 (1999, 2001-2003): CD-1: BWV 100, BWV 200, BWV 177, BWV 195; CD-2: BWV 140, BWV 34, BWV 143, BWV 158; CD-3: BWV 197, BWV 97, BWV 118, BWV 191
Cantatas Vol. 22 (2002-2005): CD-1: BWV 80, BWV 30; Mass BWV 236; CD-2: Mass BWV 233, Mass BWV 234; W.F. Bach: Gaudete omnes populi, F103 (Latin version of BWV 80); CD-3: BWV 30a; Mass BWV 235
[V-2] (1994): BWV 232 [1st recording]
[V-3] (1998): BWV 243 [1st recording], BWV 249
[V-8] (1999): BWV 247 [1st recording] |
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Mona Kreitner |
Cello |
[C-1] (1990): BWV 199 |
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Paul McCreesh |
Viola da gamba |
Member of Gabrieli Players:
[V-2] (2002): BWV 244 |
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Andrew Parrott |
Cello |
Member of Taverner Players:
[C-7] (2010): BWV 244a |
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Links to other Sites |
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Jonathan Manson (Official Website)
Jonathan Manson (Wikipedia)
Staff - Jonathan Manson (Royal Academy of Music)
Jonathan Manson (Dunedin Consort)
Jonathan Manson (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)
Jonathan Manson (London Haydn Quartet)
Jonathan Manson - Concerts, Biography & News (BBC Music)
Jonathan Manson (Avie Records) |
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