James_Newton

Composer of the Month August 2024: James Newton
James Newton is a world-renowned composer, flutist, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA. His work encompasses chamber, symphonic, choral, jazz, and world music. The 2024 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award for composition, Mr. Newton's works have been performed at prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Cité de la Musique Paris, Blas Galindo Auditorium, Mexico City, Teatro Strehler, Milano, Parco Concert Hall, Tokyo, DIRECTV Music Hall, Rio De Janeiro, Community Arts Centre, Johannesburg, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, and the Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation, Guggenheim, NEA, Rockefeller Fellowships, Montreux Grande Prix Du Disque, and Downbeat Magazine's International Critics Jazz Album of the Year. In 2005, Newton began composing a trilogy of large-scale sacred works: Mass, St. Matthew Passion, and a setting of Psalm 119. Mass premiered at the 2007 Metastasio Festival in Prato, Italy, and in the U.S. in 2011 with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. St. Matthew Passion premiered with Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino in 2015. His Psalm 119 was completed in 2021. Newton is currently completing a recording of new chamber works for New World Records. View all compositions by James Newton
Listen to 'Mass' for Four Voices and Chamber Ensemble