"It's time for the Manning Camerata to crack open the launch party champagne ... a musical vision worth busting a gut to realise"

Jessica Duchen, Classical Music Magazine

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.