About Deiran
Pianist Deiran Manning has given performances across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Italy at notable venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the New York City Mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. Locally he has given solo recitals at the Brattleboro Music Center, in Vermont and Eagle Hill, the Surry Arts Barn and Hammond Hall in Maine. A Maine native, Manning spent his formative years in New York City attending LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and a post-graduate Advanced Certificate from New York University. His teachers include pianists Edmund Battersby, Edward Auer, Karen Shaw, Jeffrey Swann and Metropolitan Opera baritone Wolfgang Brendel. As a collaborative player, he has performed with internationally renowned musicians including flutist Carol Wincenc and baritones Wolfgang Brendel and Stephen Bryant. .
As a baritone, Deiran Manning has performed with various companies including IU Opera Theater, Bronx Opera, and Winter Harbor Music Festival Community Opera. Notable roles have included Papageno in Die Zauberflote, Guligiemo in Cosi fan Tutte and Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore. Experienced as both a pianist and singer he is in demand as a vocal coach. In 2017, Manning founded the Winter Harbor Music Festival Community Opera program which serves to give musicians of all levels and community members the chance to perform, while providing opera to a region which lacks exposure to Classical performance. Since then, he has produced, directed and coached nine operas in the region, including a fully socially distanced outdoor production of La Serva Padrona in August of 2020 at the height of the pandemic. In addition to stage directing and producing operas, Manning has conducted the orchestra for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine and the Downeast Chamber Orchestra. Recent music direction includes Handel’s Messiah with chorus from the community and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.
Deiran Manning is the Executive Director of the Winter Harbor Music Festival and the Community Opera Program and is the Music Director of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine. Previously he served on the faculty at New York University and Brooklyn Conservatory and currently is teaching at Husson University. His notable awards include; the Stanza Governor’s Prize in Composition, the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) Ira Gershwin award and as a performer, prizes in the LISSMA International Piano Competition, the LAG Concerto Competition, and the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. With support from the Maine Arts Council, Manning recorded solo repertory; Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Chamber Music, with baritone Stephen Bryant, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Music by Women Composers for Flute and Piano and The Young Mozart with flutist Deirdre McArdle. These recordings are available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and other streaming platforms.
As a baritone, Deiran Manning has performed with various companies including IU Opera Theater, Bronx Opera, and Winter Harbor Music Festival Community Opera. Notable roles have included Papageno in Die Zauberflote, Guligiemo in Cosi fan Tutte and Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore. Experienced as both a pianist and singer he is in demand as a vocal coach. In 2017, Manning founded the Winter Harbor Music Festival Community Opera program which serves to give musicians of all levels and community members the chance to perform, while providing opera to a region which lacks exposure to Classical performance. Since then, he has produced, directed and coached nine operas in the region, including a fully socially distanced outdoor production of La Serva Padrona in August of 2020 at the height of the pandemic. In addition to stage directing and producing operas, Manning has conducted the orchestra for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine and the Downeast Chamber Orchestra. Recent music direction includes Handel’s Messiah with chorus from the community and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.
Deiran Manning is the Executive Director of the Winter Harbor Music Festival and the Community Opera Program and is the Music Director of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine. Previously he served on the faculty at New York University and Brooklyn Conservatory and currently is teaching at Husson University. His notable awards include; the Stanza Governor’s Prize in Composition, the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) Ira Gershwin award and as a performer, prizes in the LISSMA International Piano Competition, the LAG Concerto Competition, and the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. With support from the Maine Arts Council, Manning recorded solo repertory; Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Chamber Music, with baritone Stephen Bryant, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Music by Women Composers for Flute and Piano and The Young Mozart with flutist Deirdre McArdle. These recordings are available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and other streaming platforms.
