On the concert stage, he has performed internationally at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, The University of Oxford with the Oxford International Song Festival, Werner Hall at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Lauderdale House in London, Walter Hall at The University of Toronto, Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art dramatique in Paris, and Thayer Hall at Colburn in Los Angeles. He is a two-time winner of The American Prize in Voice, the recipient of the Jere H. Brophy Scholar Award from the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition, and the winner of the Duo Prize at the John Kerr Awards for English Song with his duo partner, pianist Corinne Penner.

With a vast repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to world premieres, Manifacier is a committed proponent of art song repertoire. He notably champions the works of French composers and frequently performs Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel, Fauré’s La bonne chanson, and other great cycles of the canon. He was an invited recitalist with many organizations and concert series worldwide, such as the Oxford International Song Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Cincinnati Song Initiative, and the Toronto Summer Music Festival.

Deeply committed to education, Manifacier serves on the voice faculty at Baylor University as Assistant Professor of Voice, having previously taught at the University of Nevada - Reno. Also in demand as a guest teacher and clinician, he has presented lectures and masterclasses at distinguished universities across the world, including Temple University, Gachon University (Seoul), Kyoto City University of Arts, Concordia College (Fargo-Moorhead), the University of Mobile, and Trinity College (Hartford). As a French-repertoire coach, he was recently invited to work with singers of the OperaFest program at the Sewanee Music Center and to coach voice-piano duos at the AlpenKammerMusik Festival in Austria. He continues to maintain an active private voice studio.

Manifacier holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where he studied under Randall Scarlata and Jeremy Little. He is the grateful recipient of several career grants from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and The Performing Arts Consortium.

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