30 Facts About Maria Newman

Maria Louise Newman was born on January 18,1962 and is an American composer of classical music, as well as a violinist and pianist.

Maria Newman is the youngest child of Alfred Newman, a prominent Hollywood film composer.

Maria Newman is a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music.

Maria Newman has been recognized for her contributions with numerous awards and commissions.

Maria Newman has received musical commendations from the United States Congress, the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, the City of Malibu, and the Annenberg Foundation.

Maria Newman is the youngest child of nine-time Academy Award-winning composer and conductor Alfred Newman and former Goldwyn Girl and businesswoman Martha Louis Montgomery.

Maria Newman is part of the Hollywood Newman family dynasty, known for its musical contributions to film.

Maria Newman's father was the conductor of the original Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

Maria Newman grew up in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and began studying piano at the age of six.

Maria Newman started violin lessons at eight and was composing by the time she was nine.

Maria Newman graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Music degree, earning high honors.

Maria Newman pursued graduate studies at Yale University from 1984 to 1986, where she studied violin with Syoko Aki and composition with Martin Bresnick.

Maria Newman earned a Master of Music degree in 1986 and received the Yale School of Music's George Wellington Miles Award.

Maria Newman's works have been performed in unique venues, including the United States Capitol, Hearst Castle Private Theatre, the Washington State Capitol Building Rotunda, the National Archives Building, the Kennedy Center, and the Marine Barracks, Washington, DC.

Maria Newman comes from a large family of prominent Hollywood film composers:.

Maria Newman is an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow and received a grant from the foundation in 2012.

In 1991, Maria Newman began using her own name as a composer.

Maria Newman held the position until the end of the summer season in 2004.

Since 2005, Maria Newman has held the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at MAHMA and the Malibu Friends of Music.

The ensemble continues to present concerts today, with Maria Newman serving as Composer-in-Residence.

Maria Newman was the viola soloist on the Grammy Award-winning album Symphonic Hollywood, performing Miklos Rozsa's Viola Concerto with the Nuremberg Symphony.

Maria Newman performed the unofficial premiere of Rozsa's unpublished first Violin Concerto and made the first recording of his late Introduction and Allegro for Solo Viola.

Maria Newman has collaborated as a soloist with celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan, Billy Crystal, Paul Reiser, and Daniel Stern.

Maria Newman has performed as a featured soloist at the United States Capitol Building Complex on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, headlining a special event representing the highly debated Victim's Rights Bill.

Additionally, Maria Newman has been featured as a commissioned composer and performer in the private theater inside the historic Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, where she was introduced by William Randolph Hearst III.

December 16,2009: Composer Maria Newman conducting a live chamber orchestra to her original score for the fully restored Mary Pickford silent film classic, Daddy-Long-Legs, hosted by Pickford Foundation curator Hugh Munro Neely.

Maria Newman has received recognition and commendations from the Annenberg Foundation, the United States Congress, the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Malibu, and The Malibu Times newspaper.

Maria Newman has been featured in spotlight articles by noted newspapers and magazines.

Maria Newman's works are featured on both private and public radio, as well as on Turner Broadcasting.

Maria Newman's works have been performed and recorded by cellist Andrew Shulman, violist Paul Coletti, double bassist Nico Abondolo, artist Randy Maria Newman, flutist Hal Ott, and pianists Wendy Prober, Delores Stevens, Peter Longworth, and Bryan Pezzone.