Professor Manning has taught at the University of Iowa since Fall 2004. Below, you can read his biography, find out about upcoming performances, and check his Google calendar and weekly schedule. For more on John Manning, click the links in the footer or contact him using the links in the left sidebar.
 With the Atlantic Brass Quintet, Mr. Manning has toured across the U.S. and around the world, including Korea, Japan, Costa Rica, France, Kuwait, India, Pakistan, England, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The quintet has won six international chamber music competitions and performed at the White House, Tanglewood, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Savannah Onstage, the Sacramento Festival for New American Music, June in Buffalo, the Bank of Boston Celebrity Series and the International Trumpet Guild Conference. The Atlantic Brass Quintet has conducted master classes at dozens of schools and colleges across the country including Rice University, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Julliard School. Mr. Manning has served on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, Boston University's School for the Arts, and Tanglewood Institute, and the University of Massachusetts. He has also taught at Brandeis University, Mount Holyoke College, and Amherst College and conducted tuba master classes at Louisiana State University, the University at Buffalo, Chautauqua Institution, and New England Conservatory. Outside the United States, John has worked with brass students in Tokyo, Japan; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama City, Panama; the Cairo Opera House in Egypt; and the Royal Omani National Orchestra School in Muscat, Oman. When he was invited to appear as a guest on the NPR radio program "The Connection," Mr. Manning took that opportunity to educate the public about the tuba and discussed his participation in the 1997 World Euphonium and Tuba Competition of Guebwiller, France. Mr. Manning is an active freelance musician and has performed with the Boston Symphony, the Empire Brass and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. He has also served as principal tuba with the Vermont Symphony and Albany (NY) Symphony and the Cedar Rapids Symphony. Outside the realm of classical music, Mr. Manning has been involved in a diverse array of eclectic musical interests; ranging from klezmer and world music to rock and jazz. He has performed with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, Naftule's Dream, Brass Planet, the Pee Wee Fist, the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Arlo Guthrie and John Lithgow. He has given solo recitals across the United States, and at International Tuba Euphonium Conferences in Regina, Greensboro, Denver, and Tuscon. John has hosted two regional tuba euphonium conferences; the Northeastern Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference at University of Massachusetts in 2003, and the Hawkeye Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference at the University of Iowa in 2007. | 2012 Performances: January 19 Java Jews Performance Moline Public Library February 5-11 Isla Verde Bronces Brass Festival Cordoba, Argentina March 12 Atlantic Brass Quintet Recital University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire March 30-31 Atlantic Brass Quintet Resicency Livermore, CA April 2-5 Iowa Brass Quintet Tour April 2nd: Clinic, Central Lee High School 8:00am, Donnellson, IA April 3rd: Northwest Missouri State University, 3:00pm master class & 8:00pm concert April 4th: Clinic at University of Kansas 1:00pm April 4th: Recital at University of Missouri Kansas City pm April 5th: RecitalTruman State University 8pm April 11 Iowa Brass Quintet Recital UCC Recital Hall |