位置:
Director of 作文; Coordinator of New 音乐; Associate Professor, 作文地点:
Ruebush Hall, Room 139电话:
(540) 665-4630电子邮件: jnewman2@dfsh.net
工作以来:
2015应用领域:
作文
音乐学院 专业 Highlights:
乔纳森•纽曼’s recent work Piʻilani and Koʻolau is a large-scale “imagined ballet” on a scenario by playwright Gary Winter, commissioned by the Florida State University College of 音乐. Other recent work includes 质量 对合唱, vocal trio and chamber orchestra with texts by poet Victoria Chang, which premiered with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street as part of their 2018 质量 Reimaginings commissioning program.
In 2016 he was appointed Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s (CYSO) composer-in-residence; CYSO’s 2011 commission Blow It Up, Start Again has been performed by orchestras worldwide, including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Brussels Philharmonic, 2015 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary 音乐 and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms. Other recent commissions include 钢铁的祈祷 for Chicago’s Gaudete Brass and These Inflected Tentacles for chamber quartet.
Newman’s ensemble transcriptions include arrangements of Beck, 乔治·哈里森, 普契尼, Sufjan史蒂文斯, 埃里克·惠特克, Led Zeppelin and electronica recorded on Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin.
As a MacDowell Fellow, he began work on an opera based on the 1962 cult horror film 灵魂狂欢节, also in collaboration with Winter. In early 2022 pianist Blair McMillen will premiere his newest work JRB变化, a large-form concert variations based on a musical theater theme by Jason Robert Brown.
部门:
音乐学院 学者
教育al 历史:
B.M., Boston University; M.M., The Juilliard School
Fields of Expertise:
音乐 composition, 20th- 和21st-century music, and new music performance. Academic interests include a humanities-driven approach to the arts—illuminating how music, 视觉艺术, 跳舞, theater and philosophy consistently intersect with each other and the relative popular and vernacular culture. 专业 composition work explores how disparate vernacular music styles and popular culture coincide with the music of the contemporary concert hall.
Recommended Link(s):
OK Feel Good 音乐
JonathanNewman.com
Shenandoah New 音乐
ShenandoahNew音乐.org