{"id":12241,"date":"2021-03-26T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/?p=12241"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:30:48","slug":"spc-prof-wins-music-composition-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/spc-prof-wins-music-composition-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC Prof Wins Music Composition Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmanson.net\/\">David Manson<\/a>, a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg College<\/a> Music Professor and a founder of the college\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/future-students\/degrees-training\/arts-humanities-and-design\/music-industry-recording-arts\" target=\"_blank\">Music Industry and Recording Arts <\/a>program, was recently named a recipient of a music composition grant from Creative Pinellas, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to supporting local artists and nurturing a vibrant arts community in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creativepinellas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Pinellas<\/a> provides $5000 grants to local artists who have excelled in their practice, and Manson was the only recipient of a music composition grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/david_manson_3.jpg\" alt=\"David Manson directs orchestra\" class=\"wp-image-12242\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manson, who teaches jazz studies and recording arts at SPC, is a composer, trombonist and producer. He has worked in many areas of music, including jazz, orchestral, world music, rock and chamber music. His bands include O Som Do Jazz, which features bossa nova and samba jazz, Helios Jazz Orchestra, which was voted Best Jazz Group \u2013 Best of the Bay by Tampa Bay Magazine, the Mobile Itinerant Funk Unit, a New Orleans-style street band featuring funk, jazz and world music, and Glorious Brass, a brass quintet. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also finds time to give back to the community. As the director of the nonprofit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/davidmanson.net\/emit\" target=\"_blank\">EMIT<\/a>, he oversees the many workshops and concerts involving new music, jazz, world music interactive electronics, improvisational and interdisciplinary art forms. EMIT is also the presenter of the annual St. Petersburg Jazz Festival and the Recording Arts Program (RAP) with Boys &amp; Girls Club students at the Royal Theater in Midtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI view music education as an investment in our community for current and future audiences,\u201d Manson said. \u201cIt also leads to wonderful collaborative projects with area artists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manson said he plans to use the music composition grant for production of his compositions as well as to improve his branding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s an honor to receive the award, and it also gives me the means to document my music in a tangible form through recording.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College Music Professor Dr. David Manson was recently named a recipient of a music composition grant from Creative Pinellas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":12026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-music","category-music-industry-recording-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}