Manu Fonsny

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Manu Fonsny

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Profession:

Piano, Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Composition, French & Japanese

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Music and Japanese;

  • Violin 8th grade AMEB;

  • Piano 8th grade AMEB;
    Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level One (N1);
    Master in Translation and Interpreting

  • Piano 8th grade AMEB;

  • Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level One (N1);

  • Master in Translation and Interpreting

Experience:

  • 12 years teaching experience;

     

  • 20 years composition experience

About:

Manu is originally from Belgium, where she started piano lessons at age 5, and violin lessons a year later. She did 3 years of solfège, which helped her attain great aural and sight-reading skills. She studied music and Japanese at the University of Sydney, and graduated in 2006 with an Honours year in composition with Anne Boyd. Since then, she has taught in various music schools around Sydney. She has also found great joy in working as a piano accompanist, playing alongside many instrumentalists (strings, brass and woodwinds) as well as choirs and singers.

Over the years, Manu has participated in workshops, concerts, music camps and has played with orchestras, quartets and small ensembles. She picked up the clarinet in her mid-twenties and played in a marching band. In recent years, she has been exploring new techniques on the violin with a Scottish fiddle group led by the great fiddler James Gastineau-Hills.

Manu hopes she can share the joy of music and her passion for languages with students in years to come.

Anecdotes:

How did you come to learn the clarinet?
“I was once walking along a street with my violin while a very kind elderly man walked up to me and asked me whether I was a musician. I said that yes, I was a violin teacher. He asked me whether I would be interested to have his clarinet and some sheet music, for free! He was now too old to play and wanted to give it to someone. Surprised, I said, “Yes, I’ve always loved the clarinet!” And so, we arranged for me to come pick up his instrument and his sheet music – he lived a few streets away from me. I offered to pay him but he was simply not interested! So that’s how I came to play the clarinet!”

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Profession: Piano, Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Composition, French & Japanese Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts in Music and Japanese; Violin 8th grade AMEB; Piano 8th grade AMEB; Japanese Language Proficiency Test ...