Sewickley Music Club spring luncheon and annual meeting set

The Sewickley Music Club 2022-2023 season will hold its members only Spring Luncheon & Annual Meeting along with a musical performance called Masterworks for Brass by the Pittsburgh Brass Project with Kevin McManus 11:30 a.m. May 10 at the Edgeworth Club, 511 East Drive in Sewickley. Reservations are due April 30.

The annual meeting will include board of directors reports and voting on the slate of new officers for the 2023-2024 season followed by The Pittsburgh Brass Project performance. McManus holds a bachelor of science degree in music education from Penn State University, a graduate performer’s certificate from SUNY Purchase Conservatory and a masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

McManus has performed on Broadway in New York City and completed two first national tours of the shows “Urinetown: the Musical” and “Little Women the Broadway Musical.” In the summer of 2009, McManus was a featured soloist in Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera production of “Swing!” He was also featured along side of Dick Nash, Bill Watrous, Bill Tole, George Roberts and Harry Betts at the 2009 NAMM show in Anaheim, Calif.

He has performed with such artists as Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Josh Groban, Clay Aiken, Wayne Newton, Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons, Aretha Franklin, Pattie LaBelle, Glen Campbell, Maureen McGovern, Isaac Hayes, Lou Rawls, Gloria Gaynor, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Don Rickles, Regis Philban, Joan Rivers and The Manhattan Transfer. He has performed with the Pittsburgh and Wheeling Symphony Orchestras and the River City and Reunion Brass Bands.

McManus is the founder and leader of The Bone Forum, a jazz 10 trombone ensemble with rhythm section, The Collective Jazz Octet, and The Pittsburgh Trombone Project, one of America’s premier chamber music ensembles. He can be seen internationally on PBS’s “My Music” and “American Soundtrack Series.” He has an active touring schedule and can frequently be heard across America with The Four Tops, The Temptations and The Latshaw Productions Pops Orchestra. In 2011, McManus gave the world premiere of Todd Goodman’s “Concert for Trombone and Piano.” The Goodman Concerto was written for Kevin and has since won first prize in The British Trombone Society’s 2012 Concerto Competition. In 2013, a new trombone sonata, “The Storr of Trotternish,” was written for Kevin by composer Dr. Daniel Perttu.

As a writer and arranger, Kevin has written for many organizations including The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The McKeesport Symphony, The New Trombone Collective and Bo Wagner’s “Rat Pack.” McManus is currently on the faculties of Seton Hill and Frostburg State Universities, Westminster College, Westmoreland County Community College and The Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.

He has also served on the faculty of Waynesburg University. In 2014, The Kevin M. McManus Excellence in Jazz Scholarship and Award was established in perpetuity at Westminster College for outstanding undergraduate students.

His extensive knowledge of ensemble playing, repertoire and rehearsal techniques for groups of all ages have brought Kevin invitations to appear as guest conductor and clinician throughout America. Kevin is proud to be a member of The Pittsburgh’s Musicians’ Union, Local 60-471, where he has served as a member of The Finance Advisory and Price List Committees.