Oliver Manning

Classical Guitarist

The Julian Bream Trust

Oliver was recently awarded a prestigious scholarship by John Williams on behalf of The Julian Bream Trust for his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music.

Oliver travelled a 7000 mile round trip to personally collect his new custom handmade guitar from Evan Kingma’s workshop in Ontario, Canada. Read Oliver’s thoughts on this new instrument below.

Kingma Guitars

London College of Music Examinations Composition

Oliver’s original composition “The Gondolier’s Dream” has been published in the London College of Music’s classical guitar grade 1 handbook. This makes Oliver LCME’s youngest modern composer for their classical guitar exam syllabus.