Jonathan Newman (b. 1972) composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication, often incorporating styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Upcoming projects include a viola concerto for soloist Brett Deubner, a quintet for Chicago's Gaudete Brass, and concerto for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble for the PRISM Quartet. Recent commissions include Blow It Up, Start Again, commissioned by Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, These Inflected Tentacles for chamber quartet, Vivid Geography for women's chorus and chamber orchestra on a text by poet Marcella Durand, and Stereo Action, written for a consortium of percussion ensembles. Other recent works include Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City, De Profundis for massed winds, and arrangements of electronica for Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin. As a MacDowell Colony Fellow, he began work on an opera based on the 1962 cult horror film Carnival of Souls, in collaboration with playwright Gary Winter. His works have been recorded on Avian, BCM, Brain Music, Cantaloupe, Klavier, Mark Custom, Naxos, Potenza, and Summit Records. Newman holds degrees from Boston University's School for the Arts (MusB), where he studied composition with Richard Cornell and Charles Fussell, and The Juilliard School (MusM), where he studied with composers John Corigliano and David Del Tredici.
Jonathan Newman
Biography
Jonathan Newman (b. 1972) composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication, often incorporating styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Upcoming projects include a viola concerto for soloist Brett Deubner, a quintet for Chicago's Gaudete Brass, and concerto for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble for the PRISM Quartet. Recent commissions include Blow It Up, Start Again, commissioned by Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, These Inflected Tentacles for chamber quartet, Vivid Geography for women's chorus and chamber orchestra on a text by poet Marcella Durand, and Stereo Action, written for a consortium of percussion ensembles. Other recent works include Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City, De Profundis for massed winds, and arrangements of electronica for Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin. As a MacDowell Colony Fellow, he began work on an opera based on the 1962 cult horror film Carnival of Souls, in collaboration with playwright Gary Winter. His works have been recorded on Avian, BCM, Brain Music, Cantaloupe, Klavier, Mark Custom, Naxos, Potenza, and Summit Records. Newman holds degrees from Boston University's School for the Arts (MusB), where he studied composition with Richard Cornell and Charles Fussell, and The Juilliard School (MusM), where he studied with composers John Corigliano and David Del Tredici.
(from jonathannewman.com)