Imogen Manins
Imogen Manins is an Australian cellist with a firm hold on the classical repertoire and a strongly creative, improvising musical mind. Her work seeks new ground for the cello, joining craft to free exploration.
With an Australian Postgraduate Award, Imogen completed a Masters in Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002, studying with the distinguished cellist Nelson Cooke and writing a thesis on Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů.
Her recording Under the Tall Trees with David Jones and Tony Gould marked another new direction for the cellist: looking to both past and present for inspiration and material, always with the intention of making music that combines craft with creativity, in the true spirit of improvisation and beauty.
Imogen Manins is featured on the following titles
Such a Sky
Such a Sky gathers live Salon performances from the Melbourne Recital Centre. Cellist Imogen Manins and pianist Tony Gould are joined by Slava Grigoryan, David Jones, Gian Slater, Riley Lee and Eugene Ughetti.
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The Cello and the Mockingbird
Improvisations on beautiful melodies from cellist Imogen Manins with pianist Tony Gould and percussionist David Jones. Their second trio album gathers film themes, standards and original sketches, shaped in the studio through open improvisation.
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Imogen Manins also appears on
Tony Gould on the Art of Creative Music
This is a tribute to revered Australian pianist, praised educator and musical thinker Dr Tony Gould, Australia’s first professor of jazz. It comprises an audio CD and bonus one-hour video DVD documentary.
Seasons of Love
A jazz trio, string orchestra and guest soloists join vocalists Gian Slater and Eddie Perfect. Graeme Lyall’s rich arrangements refresh Great American Songbook standards and other stage and screen favourites.
…for Sonja
Dedicated to Tony Gould’s dear friend Sonja Krawatt, this album gathers traditional Jewish melodies of lasting emotional warmth. Cello and clarinet join Gould’s piano on several tracks, framing two original pieces written for her.
A Sense of Wonder
After several years of musical involvement in television, radio and film, Alwyn and Laurie Lewis decided to change direction and concentrate on songwriting. Here is the result: eleven new songs.
Other credits
The Lucky Ones
This solo piano collection gathers old and new standards, original pieces, film music and three works composed spontaneously at the keyboard, capturing Gould’s playing and ideas at a particular moment in life.