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Matthew C. Manwarren
Associate Professor of Music, DMA, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Piano
101 Conservatory of Music
803 323-4639
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Originally from El Paso, Texas, pianist Matthew Manwarren began piano study at the age of five with his mother. From age seven until eighteen, he studied piano with Mary Lou Wade and Claude Herndon of El Paso. Under pianist William Westney, Dr. Manwarren earned the Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Texas Tech University, where he was recipient of the prestigious Eva Browning Piano Scholarship. He earned his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory as a piano student of Frank Weinstock and Elizabeth Pridonoff and organ student of David Mulbury. In 1996, Dr. Manwarren was awarded a Teacher Enrichment Grant from the Music Teachers National Association for the purpose of studying at the French Piano Institute in Paris, where he had the opportunity to coach with Dominique Merlet, Pascal Devoyon, and Noel Lee. Dr. Manwarren has also coached with Virginia Hutchings of Atlanta,Walter Hautzig of New York City, and John O'Conor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Most recently, he has begun work with Sheila Paige, coordinator of the Piano Wellness Seminar, where he has had the opportunity to study pianistic technique, ease, and movement at the piano that prevents injury for pianists.
Dr. Manwarren is in demand as a performer, teacher, master class presenter, lecturer and adjudicator. His students have taken top prizes in many competitions. Recent performances include recitals on the Sundays at the Loft series in New York (Behre Piano Associates), the Ivories on the Border series in El Paso, Belmont Camerata series in Nashville, and the Callenwolde Piano Series in Atlanta, and the guest artist series University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2004, he presented several performances of Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with Winthrop University faculty members Eugene Barban and Michael Williams, one of which was given at the state conference of the South Carolina Music Teachers Association in Columbia. In 2006, Dr. Manwarren was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Grant through the Council for the International Exchange of Musicians, where he had the opportunity of serving as artist-in-residence at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Manwarren currently serves as Professor of Piano at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. From 2005-2006, he held a similar position at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. For thirteen years, Dr. Manwarren served on the faculty at Erskine College, where he chaired the Department of Music and was awarded the Harriet Pressly Smith Caldwell Professorship in Music. During the summers, he serves on the faculty at the Adamant Music School in Vermont, a prestigious summer program for advanced-level pianists from all over the world. Dr. Manwarren is a past-president of the South Carolina Music Teachers Association.
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