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Dr. David Manson D.M.A.

Music, St. Pete / Gibbs

Email: manson.david@spcollege.edu

Office Information:

Monday 2-4 PM, Tuesday 1-2 PM, Friday 10-12

Monday 10 am, 4 pm - 11 am, 5:30 St. Pete / Gibbs   EI 202
Tuesday 5 pm - 7 pm St. Pete / Gibbs   EI 202HS10
Wednesday 4:30 pm - 5:30 St. Pete / Gibbs   EI 202
Thursday 3 pm - 4 pm SPCHS   EI 202
Friday 3 pm - 4 pm St. Pete / Gibbs   EI 202


Phone #: 341-4363

Location: FA 202

David Manson
 
 Courses Taught:
 
Session Course Section # Class Time Location
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MUH 1110  Music Appreciation 1434 online none
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MUN 1710  Evening Jazz Band 2773 Tues. 7 - 9:40 PM HS 117
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MUN 1710  Jazz Band 941 Mon. 1 - 2:15, Fr. 1 - 2:15 PM HS 117
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MUS 1360  Music & Computers 764 online online
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MVB 1013  low brass instruction 2120 TBA FA 202
0420   Session II 2009-2010 MVB 1315  tuba instruction 2087 TBA FA 202

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  Biography:

David Manson is a trombonist, composer, improvisor, presenter and music technologist. His degrees include a doctorate from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He began his performance career with positions in the Florida West Coast Symphony Orchestra and Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He taught low brass and jazz studies at Indiana State University from 1983-89 before returning to Florida. He has been soloist and composer with the BONK New Music Festival, Subtropics New Music Festival, Society of Composers and  SEAMUS. He has performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Eugene Chadbourne, Davey Williams and other innovators

David is a recipient of Artist Fellowships in music composition from the Florida Arts Council (1999 & 2005), a Fulbright-Hays project in Turkey, an artist feature in the Southern Arts Federations JazzSouth radio program, and grants from Meet The Composer. He worked with Cecil Taylor at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and was artist-in-residence at the Sound Arts Workshop in Miami. David served eight years on the board of the Pinellas County Arts Council (1995-2003) and is a composer-in-residence with the Moving Current Dance Collective and federal education project Studiopeace. David directs the EMIT series of adventurous music at the Salvador Dali Museum and recipient of awards from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Chamber Music America and ASCAP. David is also former director of the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum (1995-2003). Through EMIT and the Composers Forum, David has presented over 200 concerts of new music in Pinellas County. David is also a founding developer of the MIRA (Music Industry/Recording Arts) program at St. Petersburg.

David currently writes for and performs with avant-jazz group Fluid Motion (with Sam Rivers), Brazilian groups O Som Do Jazz, brass quintet Glorious Brass, as well as Zappa repertoire band Bogus Pomp. His most recent release is "Infinita Bossa", a recording of Brazilian music by his group O Som Do Jazz. He also directs the Helios Jazz Orchestra, resident ensemble at SPC.