Anthony Manzo, Bass
Anthony Manzo enjoys performing in a broad variety of musical forums - despite the attendant complications of airline travel with a double bass! A sought-after chamber musician who performs regularly at such noted venues as Charleston's Spoleto Festival, the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia, Mr. Manzo is also the Solo Bassist of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, and a regular guest artist with the National Symphony and the Smithsonian Chamber Players near his home in Washington DC. He also performs frequently with Camerata Salzburg in Austria, where recent collaborations included their summer residency at the Salzburg Festival, and two tours as soloist in Mozart's “Per questa bella mano” with bass/baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with performances in Salzburg, Paris, Vienna, Budapest, and Istanbul. Other recent highlights include chamber music performances with the St. Lawrence Quartet at Spoleto and on the Stanford Lively Arts Series, with Menachem Pressler and the Auryn Quartet at Georgetown University, and a critically-acclaimed US tour with the New Century Chamber Orchestra. He is also an active performer on period instruments, with groups including The Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, and Opera Lafayette in Washington, DC. Additionally, Mr. Manzo is a member of the double bass and chamber music faculties of the University of Maryland and the National Orchestral Institute.
Mr Manzo performs on a double bass made around 1890 by Jerome Thibouville Lamy in Paris (which now has a removable neck for travel!).