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Erica Manzo

Erica ManzoAdjunct Assistant Professor, Music Theory, Clarinet
Coordinator, Community Music Program
DMA, University of Texas
office: 288 Fine Arts Building
phone: 573-882-0934
fax: 573-884-7444
email: ManzoE@missouri.edu
mailing address: 140 Fine Arts Building, Columbia, MO 65211

Dr. Erica Manzo joined the faculty at the University of Missouri in 2004 as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music.  Her duties include/have included teaching applied clarinet, clarinet methods, courses in music theory and ear training, and serving as Coordinator of the Community Music Program. 

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Dr. Manzo holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory from Baylor University, a Master of Music degree in Music Theory from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.   Her principal clarinet instructors were Richard Shanley, Bil Jackson, and Richard MacDowell.  She has also performed in masterclasses with Andrew Crisante, F. Gerard Errante, Loren Kitt, and Robert Spring.  Dr. Manzo has appeared as a solo recitalist at three International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest conferences (Kansas City in 2008; Porto, Portugal in 2009; and the University of Texas at Austin in 2010). She also presented a solo recital at the prestigious University of Oklahoma’s Clarinet Symposium in 2008.  At the ClarinetFest in Porto, she premiered a piece written for her by Barton Cummings, entitled Diversions for Clarinet and Band. She has also performed with the Acadian Wind Symphony, the Missouri Quintet, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra since 2004, and in 2006 was a guest lecturer at the College Music Society's Great Plains Chapter Annual Conference.  Her transcription of Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet, Op. 44, for clarinet quartet and piano is published by Alea Publishing.

Dr. Manzo maintains a large, private clarinet studio in Columbia, MO. She also actively serves as a clinician, adjudicator, instructor in the Columbia Public Schools, and a recitalist throughout Missouri.  In addition, she serves as Executive Secretary of the Missouri Music Teachers Association.  Dr. Manzo is a member of the College Music Society, International Clarinet Association, and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.