Leanne
Manning completed a Bachelor of Music with honours at the University
of Queensland, Australia, a Graduate Diploma in performance at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music and a Master of Music at the Michigan State University
in the USA. She has performed regularly with many chamber ensembles and
orchestras in the USA and Asia including the Long Beach and Santa Monica
Symphony Orchestras, the Moscow Grigorovich Ballet Orchestra, Sonor -
the faculty contemporary music ensemble at UCSD, I Solisti del Los Angeles
and the Macau Orchestra. From 2002 to 2006 Leanne was the principal clarinettist
of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in China. In 2003 she won first prize
in the Co-op Press Woodwind Recording Competition which included a commercial
CD release and acclaimed public radio broadcasts across the USA. In 2005
she made solo appearances at clarinet conferences in Japan and Australia.
She has been a member of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong since
2002 and continues to perform solo recitals and chamber music on a regular
basis.