Our Vision
Manning Camerata are the classical group for the 21st century. We create innovative events that are centred on music and invigorate other disciplines. We renew the ethos of the Florentine Camerata as we work with scientists, artists and musicians. We celebrate the diversity of knowledge and opinion which makes contemporary life so inviting yet precipitous. We deliver both content and style. We demand sustainability.
What we see clearly is that excellence in today's society is diverse and engaging. It wishes to display itself to others and still involve them, it wishes to impress yet still create aspiration. For the last generation or so the established arts organisations have, it seems, unwittingly turned the musical arts into museum exhibits, divorcing them from modern day cultural realities.
Consequently Manning Camerata removes music from its normal environment and takes it to challenging and unusual venues, which attracts a new audience. The composers and the interpreters of the great music fulfilled a role in society as a whole, the excelled at celebrating the positive values of their society. Manning Camerata strives to be an excellent multidisciplinary organisation producing relevant tie-ins, spin offs and long-term liaisons. Collaboration is at the heart of our vision.
The Orchestra
The Manning Camerata is Britain's new chamber orchestra. The Camerata is an entrepreneurial classical group, whose mission is to play a central role in regenerating the UK's chamber orchestra heritage, by creating exciting and innovative musical events, increasing collaborations across the arts, sciences and humanities, promoting exceptional performance standards and exploring, presenting and commissioning British music.
The group is conducted by Artistic Director and founder, Peter Manning, who is well known to classical music audiences. Founder of the Britten String Quartet , he is also Concertmaster of The Royal Opera House and Artistic Director of The Soloists of The Royal Opera House and Artistic Director of Musica Vitae.
The international standing of its musicians enables the group to build links beyond Britain, to Europe and beyond, quickly propelling the orchestra onto the international stage. Plans are now being laid for the orchestra to explore Russia, China, Italy, France, Portugal, Ireland and Germany.
Peter Manning
"The challenge is to present the great music in a way that will open up to today's new audiences. Peter is eminently placed to rise to this challenge."
Lord Smith of Finsbury, former Culture Minister
Peter Manning, Artistic Director, is recognised as one of Britain's finest musicians at the leading edge of performance. He is an outstanding soloist, concertmaster, director, teacher and chamber musician. Peter is also Concertmaster of The Royal Opera House and Artistic Director of The Soloists of The Royal Opera House and Musica Vitae, Sweden.
Peter's conducting career includes work with the Royal Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Edsberg Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Soloists of The Royal Opera House.
Peter made his Royal Festival Hall debut with the Philharmonia in a live radio broadcast. Since then he has appeared with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé, the Ulster, the London Mozart Players, the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic, the Oulu Chamber Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
After gaining experience working with conductors such as Solti, Tennstedt, Rattle, Haitink and Svetlanov, Peter left to form the Britten String Quartet and to concentrate on his solo career.
