Anthony Manzo

Appointed Fall 2010

Anthony Manzo’s vibrantly interactive and highly communicative music-making has made ubiquitous in the upper echelons of classical music, appearing with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and across the country, and is a recurring figure at chamber music festivals including Spoleto USA, La Jolla Summerfest, and Music@Menlo.   The former solo bassist of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, he now performs with chamber orchestras across the country, including ECCO, A Far Cry, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.   Making his home just outside of Washington, DC, Mr Manzo is also a regular guest with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Society, and the Baltimore Symphony. He has also been guest principal with Camerata Salzburg in Austria, where collaborations have included a summer residency at the Salzburg Festival and two tours as soloist alongside bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, performing Mozart’s “Per questa bella mano.”   An active performer on period instruments, Mr. Manzo appears regularly with groups including the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston (where his playing was lauded as “endowed with beautiful and unexpected plaintiveness” by the Boston Musical Intelligencer), Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco. Additionally, Mr. Manzo is on the double bass and chamber music faculty of the University of Maryland. His primary instrument was  made in 1890 by Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy in Paris - and has been fitted with a removable neck to simplify all the travel!