Wolfgang Manz

Pianist Wolfgang Manz has been a major presence on the concert scene of his native Germany since his student days in the 1980s. Manz was born in Düsseldorf in 1960 and attended the University of Music at Hannover, studying with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Another important teacher was the Czech pianist Drahomir Toman, the pedagogical descendant of a piano line stretching back to Theodor Leschetizky. Manz won the Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize in Berlin in 1980 and won prizes at the Leeds Competition in 1981 and the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Belgium in 1983. An even more prestigious ...