Artist description Hailed by the inimitable Jim Svejda (NPR's The Record Shelf and KUSC radio, Los Angeles) as " ...enchanting...witty, highly romantic and irresistible.. .one of the most charming and distinctive composers of her generation.," Maria Newman was born in 1962 into the oldest and one of the most respected musical families in Hollywood, and has established herself as a critically acclaimed composer of serious music. The youngest daughter of nine-time Academy-Award-winning composer/conductor Alfred Newman, she grew up in an intense musical environment. Surrounded by great music from early childhood, Ms. Newman received her formal training at the Eastman School of Music and earned her Master of Music from Yale University, where she graduated with awards and high honors. Newman, who has served as Composer-in-Residence with Washington State's Icicle Creek Music Center since 1995, and with Los Angeles' Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble since 1994, has been honored with awards and grants from such organizations as ASCAP, the Composers Guild and the California Arts Council, and has received numerous commissions. At home composing in a variety of genres, she has been commissioned by the Mary Pickford Foundation to compose original scores for numerous vintage silent films for international video release, television broadcast, and live multimedia performance. These include Daddy Long Legs (1919), What the Daisy Said (1910), and The Lovelight (1920), among others. Her String Quartet No. I was chosen to underscore the reconstruction of the first Tom Sawyer (1917 silent film, starring Jack Pickford) ever put to film. In addition, Newrnan scored its accompanying historical documentary film entitled, Jack Pickford: In Mary 's Shadow, for The Library of Moving Images (due for release in September, 2000). Newman has been commissioned by such other organizations as the University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific University, the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Yakima Symphony Chorus, Santa Monica Symphony, San Luis Obispo County Symphony, the World Harp Congress, the International Viola Congress, Pacific Serenades, the Kairos String Quartet, Central Washington University, Icicle Creek Music Center, The Heller Foundation, the Debussy Trio Music Foundation, the University of Kansas, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The StonybrookTrio, The Southern California Viola Society, Chamber Music Palisades, Les Amis Musicales, The World Cello Congress (for cellist, John Michel), members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Suma Ching Hai International Association, and the California Institute of Technology, among many others. In addition, she has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra (1996-1998), and the Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew's in Los Angeles (1994-1995). She has also served as Visiting-Composer-in Residence at Central Washington University, and with the Caltech Chamber Music program.

Music Style Contemporary, Romantic, Classical, Film, Newman

Similar Artists Alfred Newman, Kodaly, Bartok, Beethoven

Instruments pen, violin, viola, piano

Location spotlight@cello.org, CA - USA

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