About Anne Manson
Born 1961. Anne Manson is an American conductor and musician.
Anne Manson (born 1961, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American conductor.
Biography Manson studied viola and piano in her youth. She attended Harvard University from 1979 to 1983, with an initial intention to focus on a pre-medical curriculum. She graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe College with a focus on music. She subsequently won a Marshall Scholarship, which she used for music studies at the Royal College of Music (RCM). At the RCM, she studied conducting with Norman Del Mar.
In the UK, Manson founded and served as director of Mecklenburgh Opera from 1988 to 1996. the first female music director in the orchestra's history. Manson has conducted several commercial recordings, including works of Philip Glass.
Manson and her husband have two sons.
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Anne Manson was born in 1961 in Cambridge.
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