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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 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 Allen Shawn, Martin Bresnick, Daniel Strong Godfrey, Kurt Rohde, Paul Moravec, Chen Yi, Pierre Jalbert, Jesse Jones, and Ted Hearne. Works of his have premiered at the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, and the Walden School Creative Musicians’ Retreat. Trinity Chamber Orchestra of Washington, DC premiered his orchestral overture in 2015. His work is published by TrevCo Varner Music and BrassArts Unlimited. His horn Chaconne received honorable mention at the Wright State University horn competition (2015), his Serenade for wind quintet (2013) was performed at the 2016 Festival of New Music at Ball State University in Indiana, and his Piano Quintet (2015) was semifinalist for the 2016 American Prize in chamber music composition. A CD of four of his chamber works was released in 2009 on the Music Unlimited label. His works are published by TrevCo Varner and

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