Philip Maneval is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and arts administrator.

As a composer, Maneval has written more than 35 solo, chamber music and orchestral works which have been played by groups including the Chicago String Quartet and Miami String Quartet

Miami String Quartet

The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida, and is now Quartet in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four members serve as faculty members in the School of...

, and performed at the Marlboro Music Festival and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

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As an administrator, Maneval is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is a non-profit chamber music and recital forum. It was created, in 1986, by Anthony Checchia and Philip Maneval, its Artistic Director and Executive Director respectively...

 and Manager of the Marlboro Music School and Festival

Marlboro Music School and Festival

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Maneval grew up in Leonia, New Jersey

Leonia, New Jersey

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. He studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni...

 and in the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. His teachers included Richard Wernick

Richard Wernick

Richard Wernick in Boston, Massachusetts is a US composer. He is best known for his composition "Visions of Terror and Wonder," which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Music.-Career:...

, George Crumb

George Crumb

George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...

 and George Rochberg

George Rochberg

George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...

. As of 2008, he lives in Swarthmore

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, with his wife and two children.