Anthony Manzo

Anthony Manzo performs regularly at chamber music festivals across the US, including Spoleto USA, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, and with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The former solo bassist of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, he now performs with ECCO, A Far Cry, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and is a regular guest with the National Symphony Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Society, and Baltimore Symphony. He has been guest principal with Camerata Salzburg, where collaborations have included a summer residency at the Salzburg Festival and two tours as soloist alongside bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. 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, Manzo is on faculty at the University of Maryland.