Jonathan Newman

From Wind Repertory Project

Jonathan Newman

Biography

Jonathan Newman composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication. A 2001 recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Newman creates broadly colored musical works, often incorporating styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Recent commissions include My Hands Are A City, a multi–movement work based on Beat Culture themes commissioned by a consortium of seventeen wind ensembles, Climbing Parnassus, a new work co-commissioned by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, Nagoya Wind Symphony, Heartful Winds, and Wind Ensemble KANADE in Japan, and Concertino, for flute solo, chamber winds, and piano, premiered in 2008 by a ten-ensemble consortium. Other recent performances include arrangements of electronica for Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin, a CD on the Cantaloupe label and a 2005 Lincoln Center Festival performance, and Metropolitan, premiering with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2005. In 2007 he began work on an opera based on the 1962 cult horror film Carnival of Souls, in collaboration with playwright Gary Winter. Born in 1972, Newman holds degrees from Boston University's School for the Arts (BM) and The Juilliard School (MM), where he studied with composers John Corigliano and David Del Tredici.