Brian Manker is the Principal Cellist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and cellist of the New Orford String Quartet and the Adorno Quartet.
[1] Manker is on the faculty of the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal.
[1] Manker plays a cello made by Pietro Guarneri of Venice in 1729.
The New Orford String Quartet's debut album of the final quartets of Schubert and Beethoven received very enthusiastic reviews and was nominated for a JUNO Award in 2012.
The New Orford has also recorded the complete chamber music of Jacques Hetu, works of Francois Dompierre, Tim Brady, Airat Ichmouratov's String Quartet No.