Cellist Andrew Shulman performs:
Maria Newman's CELLO CONCERTO
(Concerto for Cello & String Orchestra)
Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra
Scott Hosfeld, Music Director
Commissioned by: Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival

Cello Soloist Andrew Shulman
Ensemble: Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO)
Music Director: Scott Hosfeld
Recording Engineer/Mixer: Damon Tedesco
Recorded at Montgomery Arts House
Photographer: Juan Tallo (juantallo.com)
(Photography used by permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED).

Sheet music for Maria Newman's "CELLO CONCERTO"
("Concerto for Cello & String Orchestra")
is available at the music store at:
www.malibufriendsofmusic.org
www.marianewmancomposer.com

00:01 Opening Credits

00:23 Largo, poco intensivo
06:00 Cadenza
09:19 Come prima, ma piu intensivo
(Performed in one continuous movement)

14:20 End Credits

"CELLO CONCERTO"...MARIA NEWMAN (composer)

American composer Maria Newman’s "Cello Concerto" ("Concerto for Cello & String Orchestra") was commissioned by cellist Andrew Cook/Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival, and premiered in July 1998 with the Gold Coast Festival Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles, California USA. The work is set in one large movement performed without pause, consisting of five contrasting sections, including a solo cello cadenza. The cello, as the primary voice, is nonetheless matched as co-collaborator with the string orchestra in true chamber music fashion. Newman’s "Cello Concerto" has also been scored for cello and piano in what the composer describes as a duo for the two instruments, rather than a more typical “piano reduction.”

Hailed as, “This is real genius,” by Fanfare Magazine, MARIA NEWMAN is an award-winning American composer, violinist, violist, pianist, conductor, and educator who performs internationally as a musical artist, as well as in the role of featured composer, and has been recognized as a “Variety American Music Legend.” Commended by the United States Congress for her work in the field of classical music composition and performance, Newman has been celebrated by NPR’s on-air icon of musical opinion, Jim Svejda, (Host of The Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire) as, “Hugely musical, bewitching, witty, profound and playful, with an instantly recognizable and unusually appealing musical personality, Maria Newman is one of the most charming and distinctive composers of her generation.”

Interview and live performance spotlights on such programs as CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s From the Top, and The Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire, reveal Newman as no stranger to elite venues around the globe, as well as to the Music Scoring Stages of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. Named a George Wellington Miles Scholar of Yale University, Newman is an elected member of the American Academic Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda.

A visible symbol in modern classical music, Newman's original library of compositions have earned her accolades as an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow, a Mary Pickford Library Composition Fellow, a Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Composition Fellow, among many others. Her compositions, performances, and frequent interviews represent a range of genres - from symphonic, choral and ballet music - to chamber, solo works, narrative compositions, and scores for historic silent film. Newman is Composer-in-Residence with the Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Malibu Coast Silent Film Orchestra, and Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble. She holds the Louis & Annette Kaufman Composition Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music & Architecture (MAHMA) for the Malibu Friends of Music. Newman is the acclaimed concert soloist in Mikos Rozsa’s Viola Concerto with the Nuremburg Symphony on the GRAMMY Award-winning Symphonic Hollywood CD (Varese Sarabande). Newman is the youngest of the seven children of 9-time Academy Award-winning film composer and original Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conductor, Alfred Newman.

Maria Newman's CONCERTO FOR CELLO & STRING ORCHESTRA
is ca. 14 minutes in duration.

©2003 original music by Maria Newman.
©2003 original sheet music/performance
by Montgomery Arts House Press.
©2010/2023 recorded performance and master audio/video recording
by Montgomery Arts House Modern Masterworks Recordings.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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