Carlyle Manous, professor of music at Walla Walla College for fifteen years, retired in 2000 after thirty-seven years of teaching. When he graduated from La Sierra College in 1962, he was appointed band director at Pacific Union College, where he taught for seventeen years, serving as chair of the department during his last two years there.

In his first decade at PUC he attended the University of Michigan where he completed a master’s degree in wind instruments and a doctorate in horn performance in 1971. While at UM he studied conducting with William Revelli, one of the most noted university band directors of all time.

Manous provided enthusiastic leadership for the college bands and smaller ensembles at both PUC and WWC and conducted numerous festival bands over many years. A sought-after clinician for brass and band festivals, he conducted the band at the Central California Music Camp for a number of years. A knowledgeable and thorough teacher, he also coordinated the music library while at WWC.

From his earliest years as a student at La Sierra, Manous enjoyed a reputation as an accomplished and active performer on horn, giving numerous recitals and appearing frequently as a soloist. He was soloist with the Walla Walla Symphony on two occasions and often a guest performer with ensembles and soloists as they played at WWC. In 1998, he presented a paper at the International Horn Society at its annual convention, held in Canada that year. In April of his retirement year he presented a series of four horn recitals on successive evenings, each featuring various aspects of solo and ensemble repertoire for the instrument.

He and his wife, Cathy, now reside in Jackson, Tennessee.

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