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Composer Jonathan Newmark, born New York City in 1953, pianist, violist, and conductor, received his MM degree in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2015. His teachers have included Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, and Michael Fiday, at CCM, as well as Jonathan Kolm, Gloria Wilson Swisher, and James McVoy. He played viola in the Tacoma (WA) Symphony for four seasons, and has guest conducted the Independence Sinfonia of Philadelphia. He has participated at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington, VT since 1981 and worked there with composers including Allen Shawn, Martin Bresnick, Daniel Strong Godfrey, Kurt Rohde, Paul Moravec, Chen Yi, Jesse Jones, Pierre Jalbert, Donald Crockett, Marc Mellits, and Ted Hearne. He has also participated in and composed for the Creative Musicians’ Retreat of the Walden School, the Charlotte New Music Festival, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, and Connecticut Summerfest. His bass clarinet trio (2015) won the Boston New Music Festival competition in 2017. His work is published by TrevCo Varner Music and BrassArts Unlimited. A CD of four of his chamber works was released in 2009 on the Music Unlimited label.

A 1974 graduate of Harvard College, he earned his MD degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1978, and is a board-certified neurologist, professor of neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, staff neurologist at the Washington VA Medical Center, retired Colonel in the US Army Medical Corps, former Chemical Casualty Care Consultant to the Army Surgeon General (2002-2012), consultant to the National Institutes of Health’s Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats program, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on medical response to chemical warfare and terrorism. He lives in Burke, Virginia.