Asst. Professor of Orchestras and Violin, Old Dominion University
Board of Directors, Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia
President-Elect, Virginia chapter of the American String Teacher's Association
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. She was assistant conductor of the University of South Carolina Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras and 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 teaches orchestra, violin, string methods, and coordinates the chamber music program as Asst. Professor at Old Dominion University. The recipient of the 2007 Virginia String Teacher of the Year award from Virginia American String Teachers Association (VASTA), she regularly conducts and adjudicates school orchestra festivals in the country.
Currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia, Dr. Manning has actively served on the boards of the American String Teachers Association in New York and South Carolina and is currently nominated as President-Elect of the Virginia chapter.
While the majority of her career was as an orchestral violinist, studio teacher, and public school orchestra director, she recently completed her doctorate in orchestral conducting following several years of workshops sponsored by the Conductors Guild and other organizations. Performing and teaching in many parts of the country over the last 30 years her a broader perspective to ideas and experiences.
Currently Dr. Manning is Assistant Professor of Orchestras and Violin at Old Dominion University.
