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Sebastian Manz (born 1986) is a German clarinetist, who also performs internationally as a soloist. He is also active as an arranger and composer. .

Life and work
Manz is the son of the pianists Wolfgang Manz and Julia Goldstein, daughter of the Soviet violinist Boris Goldstein. He received his first clarinet lessons at the age of seven with Wilfried Berk at the Hanover Music School. In 1997, at the age of eleven, he was accepted as a junior student at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. From 2003 to 2010 he was a regular student there. He studied under Sabine Meyer and Reiner Wehle.

He won first place in Jugend musiziert in 1994 and 1999–2003.

Sebastian Manz made his first tour as a soloist in 1999 as a 13-year-old to Poland with the orchestra of the Hanover Music School, and in October 2000 the orchestra toured France. He has also performed at the EXPO 2000 and as a soloist with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

In 2006 Sebastian Manz was invited to the "Schubertiade" festival in Japan, where he performed both chamber music and as a soloist. Since this trip he has made regular guest appearances in the Asian region.

In 2008, Manz won the 1st prize in clarinet at the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD, which had not been awarded for 40 years, a significant event for his further career. This was immediately followed by performances with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with television recording, the RSO Stuttgart and the Collegium Musicum in Basel.

In his debut at the Tonhalle Zürich on 4 May 2010 he played Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie conducted by their designated chief conductor Eugene Tzigane. Manz performed with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany, and Collegium Musicum Basel, Switzerland. Since 2010, he is soloist in the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. From the 2012/13 to the 2014/15 season he was an artist in the "Junge Wilde" series at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

In addition to his work with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Manz performs as a soloist with various other orchestras, not only in Germany, but also in other European countries and occasionally in the USA and Japan. He also performs chamber music works with a number of musical partners at festivals and on other prestigious stages.

Discography

 * 2008 Die Quintette von Mozart und Beethoven für Klavier und Bläser. Mozart: Quintett Es-Dur KV. 452 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and fagott. Beethoven: Quintett Es-Dur op. 16 for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and fagott. Label: Indésens
 * 2008 Mozart – Glière – Korngold. Sebastian Manz with Mozart’s clarinet concerto in A major, K 622. Symphonic orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Cornelius Meister. Label: BR Klassik
 * 2011 DUO RIUL. Works by Brahms, Berg, Debussy, Lutoslawski, Yun (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label: GENUIN
 * 2012 Gottfried Hendrik Mann (1858–1904). Clarinet Concerto op. 90. Feest Prelude op. 95. Violin Concerto op.101. Suite no. 3 op. 98. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Akiko Amada, violin; Symphonieorchester Osnabrück, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo
 * 2012  Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff (1763–1806). Clarinet Concerto op. 5. Concerto for Clarinet, Bassoon & Orchestra. Symphony in E flat major. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Albrecht Holder, bassoon; Symphonieorchester Osnabrück, conductor: Hermann Bäumer) Label: cpo
 * 2013 In Rhythm. Works by Gerswhin, Reich, Piazzolla, Copland, Templeton, Villa-Lobos, Bernstein und Milhaud (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Martin Klett, piano) Label:CAvi
 * 2014 Fuchs & Brahms, Clarinet Quintets, Sebastian Manz, The Danish String Quartet
 * 2017 variation5, Compositions by Malcolm Arnold, Jean Françaix, Paul Hindemith and Carl Nielsen. Magali Mosnier, Ramón Ortega Quero, Sebastian Manz, David Fernández Alonso and Marc Trénel, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics
 * 2017 Carl Maria von Weber, Complete works for clarinet. Sebastian Manz, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchetra, Antonio Méndez, casalQuartett, Martin Klett, piano and Lars Olaf Schaper, Double bass, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics
 * 2019 A Berstein Story, Compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Igor Strawinsky and Steve Reich. Sebastian Studnitzky and Sebastian Manz, Label: EDEL / Berlin Classicsaa
 * 2020 Father Copland, Compositions by Aaron Copland. WKO Heilbronn, Case Scaglione, Céline Moinet, Sebastian Manz, Wolfgang Bauer, Label: EDEL / Berlin Classics
 * 2020 Clarinet Concertos – Nielsen & Lindberg. Nielsen: Serenata in vano, CNW 69. Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57. Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto. (Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, conductors: Dominik Beykirch & Magnus Lindberg) Label: Berlin Classics.
 * 2022 Compositions for clarinet and piano by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Sebastian Manz clarinet, Herbert Schuch piano, Label: EDEL/Berlin Classics

Awards

 * 2008 Prize of Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Duo clarinet/piano with Martin Klett
 * 2008  First prize ARD International Music Competition
 * 2009 LOTTO-prize of Rheingau Musik Festival
 * 2011 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Newcomer of the Year"
 * 2012 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Chamber Music Recording of the Year"
 * 2017 ECHO Klassik award in the category "Concert Recording of the Year" for the CD "Carl Maria von Weber, Complete works for clarinet."
 * 2020 Opus Klassik award in the category "Klassik ohne Grenzen" ("Classical Music without Borders") for the album A Bernstein Story released in 2019 with Sebastian Studnitzky
 * 2020 Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award.