Jane Manning was educated at Norwich High School for Girls, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Scuola di Canto at Cureglia, Switzerland.
16 Facts About Jane Manning
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Jane Manning gave her first BBC broadcast the following year, singing Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire.
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Jane Manning first sang at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert in 1972, and was part of The Matrix with Alan Hacker.
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Jane Manning co-founded her own virtuoso ensemble, called Jane's Minstrels, in 1988, together with her husband.
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Jane Manning was noted as a performer of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire.
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Jane Manning sang regularly in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe, with more than three hundred world premieres given.
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Jane Manning toured Australia and New Zealand in 1978,1980,1982,1984,1986,1990,1996,2000 and 2002, and the United States in 1981,1983,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1991,1993,1996 and 1997.
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Jane Manning was the author of a textbook, New Vocal Repertory in two volumes.
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Jane Manning's performance is desperately touching, the more disturbing for being played as reminiscence.
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Several leading composers composed new works for Jane Manning including Harrison Birtwistle, Naresh Sohal, James MacMillan and Colin Matthews.
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Jane Manning commissioned the opera King Harald's Saga from Judith Weir in 1979.
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For many people Jane Manning is simply the voice of contemporary classical music in this country.
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Jane Manning was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007 by Durham University.
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Jane Manning composed his first piece for her one decade later, titled The World's Winter.
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Jane Manning subsequently sang it at the Cheltenham Festival in 1976, with the Nash Ensemble.
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Payne and Jane Manning had no children, but were survived by a nephew and two nieces.