Profile

Jonathan Manson pursues a varied international career as a performer on both cello and viola da gamba. He was born in Edinburgh and received his formative training under the direction of Jane Cowan, later going on to study with Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music in New York. A growing fascination for early music led him to Holland, where he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague.

While still a student, he became a founding member of the viol quartet Phantasm, which has since toured worldwide and earned several record prizes, including a Gramophone Award in 1997 and a nomination for Gramophone Record of the Year in 2004. In 1999, he was appointed principal cellist of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, which in addition to a busy touring schedule has recently embarked on a ground-breaking project to record all the cantatas and chamber music of Dietrich Buxtehude. He has also appeared as guest principal with many of Europe’s leading early music ensembles (including the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, Gabrieli Players, English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), as a chamber music partner in repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the Romantic, and as viola da gamba soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Jonathan Manson may be heard on over 60 recordings, including a critically acclaimed disk of Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concert with Trevor Pinnock and Rachel Podger (Channel Classics), and Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos with Yo-Yo Ma (Sony Classics). His recording of the Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, together with Trevor Pinnock, has recently been released on the Avie label. He is also active as a teacher, and has taught on courses in Germany, the Czech Republic, America, Portugal and Iceland, as well as closer to home, at the University of Oxford. Jonathan makes his home near London, where he is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

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