The English-born conductor and violinist Andrew Manze came into classical music
through a conventional route; after reading Classics at Cambridge he studied the
music with the Dutch conductor Tom Koopman and began his career as a specialist
in early music recording solo performances for the highly respected Harmonia
Mundi label.
In 1996 Manze was appointed associate director of The Academy of Ancient Music,
an orchestra based in Cambridge who concentrate on performing Baroque and
classical pieces on original or accurate replicas of early instruments. He went
on to become the...