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Allan Manhas
Allan Duarte Manhas is a brazilian pianist and conductor. He has been perfoming in Europe, USA and South
America, in such venues as Curt-Sachs-Saal in Berlin, Scriabin
Museum in Moscow, Chopin House in Zelazowa Wola, Georg
Friedrich Haendel Hall and Haendel House in Halle,
and Mendelssohn House in Leipzig.
Born in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, he first got in touch
with the piano at the age of 7. Years later he would earn his
Bachelor’s degree in piano with honors from the University of
São Paulo, under Prof. Fernando Corvisier. After an intense
semester as a visiting scholar in Ukraine (National Academy of
Music "Peter Tchaikovsky", Kiev) he finally transferred to
Germany to pursue graduate studies. There he earned his
Master’s Degree and Artist Diploma (Konzert Examen) from
the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, under Prof.
Marco Antonio de Almeida. Further studies took place at the
Fondation Bell'arte-ICPA (Belgium), under the guidance of
Maestro Nelson Delle-Vigne (École Normale).
Allan Manhas has attended masterclasses with acclaimed
artists such as Luis Carlos de Moura Castro, Gilberto Tinetti,
Ricardo Castro, Jean-Louis Steuerman, François-Frédéric Guy,
Lilya Zilberstein, Robert Roux, Boris Berman, Paul BaduraSkoda, John Perry, Felix Gottlieb and Pascal Devoyon, Josep
Colom and Jerome Lowenthal.
He has won prizes in competitions in South America and
Europe, such as the "Convocatoria Internacional Claudio Arrau"
in Quilpue, Chile (2006), and the Prize "Musik braucht Freunde"
Halle-Saale (2009).
He has been performing with traditional orchestras, such
as the Halle State Orchestra (Germ.), the West Palm Beach
Atlantic University Orchestra (USA), the Academic Orchestra
Halle (Germ.), and the Symphony Orchestra of the University of
Londrina (BR).
After several years as an Assistant Professor at the
Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, he moved to
Berlin, where he currently holds a teaching position for piano in
the State Music Schools Leo Kestenberg (Tempelhof-Schöneberg)
and Fanny Hensel (Central)
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