Lucy Manning

Assistant Professor of Violin and Orchestra

As director of the Old Dominion Symphony Orchestra, Lucy Manning brings extensive experience as a violinist, violist, and chamber musician to the podium. She is a former member of the Dallas Opera and Ballet Orchestras, Albany Symphony Orchestra, St. Cecilia Orchestra, Lake George Opera Festival Orchestra, and appeared as soloist with numerous other orchestras. Chamber music remains a priority, as she is the founder and former music director of the Saratoga Chamber Players in New York.

Lucy has participated in conducting workshops and master classes led by Gustav Meier, Kenneth Keisler, Robert Page, and Donald Portnoy.  From 2003 to 2005, Lucy was assistant conductor of the University of South Carolina Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras. In July 2002, she conducted performances with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and with soloists of the National Opera Company of China as part of an International Conductors Institute.

Dr. Manning taught all levels of public school orchestra programs in Ohio, Massachusetts, Texas, and New York and is an All-State and Major Organizations Adjudicator in New York. She regularly conducts orchestra festivals and summer music camps, and is active with the American String Teachers Association being awarded Virginia String Teacher of the Year in 2007. The former Music Director of the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra, Lucy recently received her doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of South Carolina.

Phone:
757.683.6114

Email:
LManning@odu.edu