CURRICULUM VITAE
JONATHAN NEWMARK, M.D., M.M. COLONEL (ret.), MEDICAL CORPS, US ARMY
Part I: official curriculum vitae, pages 1-25
Part II: musical curriculum vitae, pages 26ff
ADDRESS: 5606 Herberts Crossing Drive Burke, Virginia, 22015
PHONE: 513 2676137 Email: jnviola@verizon.net
DATE OF BIRTH: 21 October 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
PRE-COLLEGE EDUCATION: Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey, 1967-70
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION: Exchange student, Chuo University High School, Koganei, Tokyo-to, Japan - 1969
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A.B. Magna cum laude in history and science, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1974
MEDICAL EDUCATION: M. D. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York – 1978
GRADUATE EDUCATION: M.M. in music composition, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio -- 2015
POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION:
1978-79 Intern, internal medicine, Roosevelt Hospital (now part of Saint Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center), New York, New York
1979-80 Resident, anatomic pathology, Kings County Hospital Center and State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
1980-82 National Research Service Award post-doctoral research fellow, Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, under Roscoe O. Brady, M.D. Research on problems in biochemistry of enzymes and glycolipids 1982-84 Resident, neurology, joint program: Boston City Hospital, Lahey Clinic Medical Center (Burlington) and New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1984-85 Fellow, neuro-oncology and occupational neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, under Fred H. Hochberg, M.D. 1990-91 Fellow, neuromuscular disease, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under Mark J. Brown, M.D.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
1985-90
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 1988-90 Associate, Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 1991-93 Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1994-98 Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 1998-2006 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 2006- Adjunct Full Professor, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 2017- Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
CERTIFICATIONS:
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1979
Certified in Adult Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1987
Certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support, American College of Surgeons, 1992
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION:
1980-82 Courses in biochemistry, Graduate School of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1979-80 Emergency physician, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York 1980-82 Emergency physician, Prince George's General Hospital and Medical Center, Cheverly, Maryland
1982-85 Premedical advisor and nonresident tutor, Quincy House of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1985-87 Director, residency program in Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1987-90 Director of outpatient neurology clinic, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1991-92 Private practice, Swarthmore Neurology Associates, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1992-93 Staff Neurologist, Walson Air Force Hospital, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1993-97 Staff Neurologist, Neurology Service, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington. Served as chief, quality assurance; chief, outpatient neurology clinic; and chief, readiness 1997-05 Chief, Operations, Chemical Casualty Care Division, and scientific coordinator, neuroprotection research, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 2004-05 Detailed as Senior Medical Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 2005-13 Deputy Joint Program Executive Officer for Medical Systems, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical/Biological Defense, US Department of Defense, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 2014-16 Special Government Employee (Expert ED), Office of Health Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 2014-15 Attending Neurologist, Hoxworth Clinic, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016- Attending Neurologist, Washington DC Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC 2016- Consultant, Joint Research and Development Inc., Stafford, Virginia 2018-2026 Appointed by Gov. Ralph Northam to Virginia Secure and Resilient Commonwealth advisory panel, Richmond, Virginia; reappointed to second four-year term by Gov. Glenn Youngkin
2019- Senior Medical Advisor (contractor through Preferred Services Group, Inc. and Kelly Government Services, Inc.), Office of Biodefense Research and Surety, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
ACADEMIC HONORS:
1974 Senior election, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College
1978 Awarded Harold Lamport Memorial Biomedical Research Prize, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, for best medical student thesis, reporting original biomedical research, for work under William G. Johnson, M. D., Department of Neurology, on allelic forms of hexosaminidase deficiency
1995 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
2002 Only uniformed officer ever invited to give plenary talk before the American Academy of Neurology at its annual meeting, Denver, Colorado
2008 Elected Fellow, American Neurological Association
2015 Inducted, National Society of Leadership and Success, University of Cincinnati
MEDICAL LICENSURE:
Active: State of Ohio 35.122403 - 11 October 2013
Inactive: State of New York 138576 - 2 Jul 1979
State of Maryland D25199 - 17 Jul 1980
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 49378 - 24 May 1982
Commonwealth of Kentucky 24165 - 30 Jul 1985
State of Indiana 01034812 - 12 Dec 1985
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania MD-041556-L - 14 May 1990 State of New Jersey 58745 - 2 Nov 1992
NPI: #1285727750
DEA: #FN7084611 (for the District of Columbia)
MILITARY SERVICE, US Army:
US Army Reserve:
1989-1990 Staff neurologist, Troop Program Unit drill status, 5010th US Army Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
1990-1991 Staff neurologist, First US Army Physician Management Branch, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
1991-1993 Staff neurologist, Troop Program Unit drill status, 348th General Hospital, Folsom, Pennsylvania
US Army active duty:
1993-1997 Staff neurologist, chief of quality assurance, chief of neurology clinic, and chief of readiness for neurology service, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington
1997-2005 Chief of Operations, Chemical Casualty Care Division, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 2002-2012 Army Surgeon General’s Consultant for Chemical Casualty Care (original appointment 2002, reappointed in 2006, 2008, and 2010)
2004-2005 Detailed as Senior Medical Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (twelve months half-time)
2005-2013 Deputy Joint Program Executive Officer, Medical Systems, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical/Biological Defense, Falls Church and Fort Belvoir, Virginia
HIGHEST RANK ACHIEVED: Colonel (date of rank 22 JUN 2000)
RETIREMENT DATE: 1 November 2013
SECURITY CLEARANCE: Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (2011) (recertified 2012-17); Secret 2016-
DEFENSE ACQUISITION CERTIFICATION: Level 2 Program Management, February 2007
LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE:
1982-1985 Sergeant, Auxiliary Police, City of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1986-1990 Special Deputy Sheriff, Jefferson County, Kentucky
OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS:
1993 Task Force physician (solo), Operation Fuertos Caminos, Rice Station, Belize, Central America (one month)
1996 Deputy Surgeon, TF 2-1 Air Defense Artillery and Army Forces Central Command Saudi Arabia), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (5 ½ months)
SHORT TACTICAL DEPLOYMENTS:
Domestic:
1999 Army Chem/Bio Rapid Response Team assigned to pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II, Saint Louis, Missouri (one week)
1999 FBI Domestic Emergency Support Team, Operation Westwind 1999, Los Angeles, California (one week)
2000 Army Chem/Bio Rapid Response Team, Operation TOPOFF 1, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (one week)
2001 Domestic Emergency Support Team, Exercise Wasatch Rings, Salt Lake City, Utah (dress rehearsal for 2002 Winter Olympics) (one week)
2005 Domestic Emergency Support Team, Operation TOPOFF 3, New London, Connecticut (one week)
Overseas: 1999-2000 Department of State Foreign Emergency Support Team, assigned to cover Millennium changeover in Europe (Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany)(two weeks)
2002 Deployed to Camp As-Sayliyah, Doha, Qatar, as augmentee to US Central Command Surgeon’s Office for Exercise Internal Look (two weeks)
2005 Exercise Eagle Resolve, US Central Command, Doha, Qatar (two weeks)
REPRESENTING UNITED STATES OVERSEAS AT MULTINATIONAL FORUMS:
2004 NATO Technical Group 004 (Chemical Medical Defense), Rijswijk, The Netherlands
2007 (April) US-Japan Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group, Tokyo, Japan
2007 (December) US-Japan Chemical/Biological Defense Medical Response Seminar, Tokyo, Japan
2007 US-Poland preliminary meeting for NATO Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group, Warsaw, Poland
2008 US-Singapore-Australia Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group, Singapore 2009 (April) US-Japan Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group plenary, Tokyo, Japan
2009 (September) US-Japan Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group meeting, Yokota Air Base, Japan
2011 (December) US-Japan mini-Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group meeting, Tokyo, Japan
2012 (November) US-Korea Counterproliferation Working Group meeting, Seoul, Korea
2012 (November) US-Japan Chemical/Biological Defense Working Group meeting, Tokyo, Japan
MILITARY EDUCATION:
1990 Army Medical Department Officer Basic Course (Reserve Component), Ft. Sam Houston, Texas
1992 Combat Casualty Care Course, Camp Bullis, Texas
1992 Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Course, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
1993 Army Medical Department Officer Advanced Course (Reserve Component), Ft. Sam Houston, Texas
1993 Deployable Medical Systems Operational Training Certificate, Ft. Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania
1995 Combat Casualty Management Course (Echelon III), Ft. Sam Houston, Texas
1996 Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas (correspondence option)
1996 ARCENT-SA Field Sanitation Team Certification Course, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2003 Fundamentals of Acquisitions System Management Course (ACQ 101), Defense Acquisition University (online)
2005 CBRNE Fundamentals course (online)
2005 Intermediate Systems Acquisition Course (ACQ 201a), Defense Acquisition University (online)
2005 Intermediate Medical Acquisition Course (ACQ 201b), US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Frederick, Maryland
2007 Program Management Tools (PMT 250), Defense Acquisition University (online and teleconference)
MILITARY AWARDS:
Defense Superior Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters
National Defense Service Award (2)
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Army Reserve Ribbon Army Service Ribbon Army Reserve Overseas Training Ribbon
Army Superior Unit Award (Task Force 2-1 Air Defense Artillery)
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Physical Fitness Excellence Award
Marksmanship Badge: Pistol Expert Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator
8Z (Medical Research and Development) Additional Skills Identifier
8X (Medical Acquisition) Additional Skills Identifier
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia for Former Wartime Service (Afghanistan theater)
Order of Military Medical Merit
MEDICAL STAFF APPOINTMENTS:
1985-90
Humana Hospital - University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1985-90 Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Louisville, Kentucky
1985-90 Norton Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
1985-90 Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
1986-90 Harrison County Hospital, Corydon, Indiana
1985-90 Orange County Hospital, Paoli, Indiana
1986-90 Amelia Brown Frazier Rehabilitation Center, Louisville, Kentucky 1991-92 Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
1991-92 Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania 1991-92 Springfield Hospital, Springfield, Pennsylvania 1991-92 Riddle Memorial Hospital, Media, Pennsylvania 1990-93 Walson Army/Air Force Hospital, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1993-97 Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington 1997-2011 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 2009-11 National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 2011-13 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 2011-13 Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 2014-15 University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 2016- Washington DC Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC
SCIENCE MANAGMENT: Research coordinator and task area manager for neuroprotection, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, 2000-2005
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: COR (Government Contracting Officer’s Representative) on the following Department of Defense contracts: 1999-2002 $3,000,000 to Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, from US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Research Program, for basic work on Parkinson disease, PI Stuart Sealfon, MD 2005-2008 $350,000 to Ripple LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, from US Army Small Business Innovative Research program, to develop a field seizure detector, PI K. Shane Guillory 2005-2008 $550,000 to Cleveland Medical Devices, Cleveland, Ohio, from US Army Small Business Innovative Research program, to develop a field seizure detector, PI Mo Modarres, PhD 2008-2012 $850,000 to NeuroWave Systems, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, from US Army Commercialization Pilot Program, to develop a field seizure detector, PI Stéphane Bibian, PhD
MILITARY AND INTERAGENCY BODY MEMBERSHIPS 1997-2015:
White House Homeland/National Security Council: Sub-Interagency Policy Committee on Domestic Chemical Defense Army Biosurety and Biosecurity Task Force (Lennox Task Force)
Defense Medical Standardization Board: Working group on chemical and biological agents
US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Emergency Countermeasures Enterprise:
Chemical Requirements Working Group Chemical Integrated Process Team Biological Requirements Working Group
US Department of Homeland Security:
Interagency Biological Risk Assessment Working Group
Interagency Chemical Risk Assessment Working Group
Integrated Threat Risk Assessment Working Group
VIRGINIA STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BODIES:
Appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to four-year term as physician member of the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel, 2018-2022
Reappointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin to four-year term as physician member of the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel, 2022-2026
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Newmark J, Brady RO, Grimley PM, Gal AE, Waller SG, Thistlethwaite JR: Amygdalin (laetrile) and prunasin beta-glucosidases: distribution in germ-free rat and in human tumor tissue. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 78:6513-6516, 1981.
2. Newmark J, Abuchowski A, Murano G: Preparation and properties of adducts of streptokinase and streptokinase-plasmin complex with polyethylene glycol and pluronic polyol F38. J Appl Biochem 4:185-189, 1982.
3. Newmark J, Levy SR, Hochberg FH: Somatosensory evoked potentials in the thoracic outlet syndrome (letter). Arch Neurol 42:1036, 1985.
4. Merriman L, Newmark J, Hochberg FH, Shahani B, Leffert RT: A focal movement disorder of the hand in six pianists. Med Prob Perf Art 1:17-19, 1986.
5. Newmark J, Hochberg FH: Isolated painless manual incoordination in 57 musicians. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 50:291-295, 1987.
6. Newmark J, Lederman RJ: The incidence of overuse syndromes amongst amateur instrumentalists. Med Prob Perf Art 2:142-144, 1987.
7. Newmark J, Hochberg FH: "Doctor, it hurts when I play:" painful disorders among instrumental musicians. Med Prob Perf Art 2:93-97, 1987.
8. Hochberg FH, Lavin P, Portney R, Roberts D, Tinney C, Hottleman K. Wanger F, Newmark J, Cavanaugh K, Noonan M: Topical therapy of localized inflammation in musicians: a clinical evaluation of Aspercreme versus placebo. Med Prob Perf Art 3:9-14, 1988.
9. Salmon P, Newmark J: Clinical applications of MIDI technology. Med Prob Perf Art 4:25-31, 1989.
10. Newmark J, Venna N: Myasthenia gravis. In: Heffernan JJ, Witzburg RA, and Cohen AS, eds.: Clinical Problems in Acute Care Medicine. Philadelphia: WB Saunders & Co., 1989.
11. Newmark J, Reid KH: Calcium reverses lidocaine-induced conduction block in rat fimbria in vitro. Comp Biochem Physiol 94A:183-186, 1989.
12. Newmark J, Rybock JD: Post-traumatic cervical disc herniation in a professional bass player: the importance of occupational pain. Med Prob Perf Art 5:89-90, 1990.
13. Newmark J, Salmon P: Playing-related complaints among non-classical instrumentalists: a pilot questionnaire study. Med Prob Perf Art 5:106-108, 1990.
14. Newmark J, Thomas CV, Jones HR, Freidberg SR, Aretz HT, Baker RA: Vertebral hemangioma causing acute recurrent spinal cord compression (letter). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 54:471, 1991.
15. Newmark J, Iyer V: Recurrent brachial plexopathy in successive puerperial periods (letter). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 54:184-185, 1991.
16. Newmark J, Reid KH: Increasing extracellular calcium improves conduction in partially demyelinated rat fimbria in vitro. Comp Biochem Physiol 100A:385-391, 1991.
17. Payne T, Newmark J, Reid KH: The focally demyelinated rat fimbria: a new in vitro model for the study of acute demyelination in the central nervous system. Exp Neurol 114:66-72, 1991.
18. Salmon P, Newmark J: Applications of MIDI technology in assessment of performance skills. In: Spintge R and Droh R, eds.: Music Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri: MMB Music Inc., 1992.
19. Newmark J, Clayton WL: Persian Gulf Illness: preliminary neurological impressions. Military Medicine 160:505-507, 1995.
20. Newmark J, Weinstein MS. A proposed standard music medicine history and physical examination form. Med Prob Perf Art 10:134-136, 1995.
21. Weinstein MS, Newmark J. Canary in the coal mine: how a performing arts medicine program adapts to the changing medical marketplace. Med Prob Perf Art 11:12-14. 1996.
22. Newmark J, Halliday AW. Field neurology: the role of the US Army neurologist under MedForce 2000. Military Medicine 161:367-368, 1996.
23. Newmark J. Thoracic outlet syndromes: a non-surgeon's perspective for those caring for musicians. Work 7:95-107, 1996.
24. Newmark J, France LO. Lessons from Saudi Arabia: specialty consultations in a military operation other than war. Military Medicine 163:278-282, 1998.
25. Dawson WL, Charness ME, Goode DJ, Lederman RJ, Newmark J. What’s in a name? -terminologic issues in performing arts medicine. Med Prob Perf Art 13:45-50, 1998.
26. Newmark J. Focal dystonia in a pianist: the case of Gary Graffman. Seminars in Neurology 19 (suppl. 1):41-46, 1999.
27. Newmark J, Richards TL. Delayed unilateral post-traumatic tremor: localization studies using SPECT and MR spectroscopy techniques. Military Medicine 164:59-64, 1999.
28. Newmark J. Response to chemical terrorism: an overview. US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense: Proceedings of the 1998 BioScience Review. United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 1999.
29. Newmark J, Newmark HL, Marden LA. Antiphospholipid antibodies, ischemic stroke in young adults, and calcium supplementation: a hypothesis. Military Medicine 154:489-491, 2000
30. Chemical Casualty Care Division. Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook, 3rd edition. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, July 2000
31. Cieslak TJ, Rowe JR, Kortepeter MG, Madsen JM, Newmark J, Christopher GW, Culpepper RC, Eitzen EM. A field-expedient algorithmic approach to the clinical management of chemical and biological casualties. Military Medicine 165:659-662, 2000
32. Newmark J. Unresolved issues in the management of nerve agent casualties. In: US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense: Proceedings of the 2000 BioScience Review. United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 2001
33. Newmark J. Chemical warfare agents: a primer. Military Medicine 166 (suppl. 2):9-10, 2001
34. Romano JA, Hurst CG, Newmark J. Training and education in the medical management of chemical casualties: in support of medical readiness and homeland defense. Army Medical Department Journal, Apr-June issue, p. 46-52, 2002
35. Petruccelli BP, Barker TL, and Woods JA, eds.; Gasser RA, Magill AJ, Smoak BL, Rush VC, Kortepeter MG, Christopher GW, Weese CB, Hauschild VD, Maliner BI, Newmark J, Kolka MA, Kinty S and Norton SA, contributors. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of tactical importance to US Central Command. United States Army Center for Health
Promotions and Preventive Medicine, USACHPPM Technical Guide 273, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 2002
36. Rotenberg J and Newmark J. Nerve agents in children: diagnosis and management. Pediatrics, 112(3):648-658, 2003
37. Hurst CG, Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In: Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Longo DL and Jameson JL, eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Sixteenth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004, p. 1288-1294
38. Newmark J. Nerve agents. In: Roy ML, ed.: Physician’s Guide to Terrorist Attack. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 2004, p. 297-310 39. Newmark J. Therapy for nerve agent poisoning. Arch Neurol 61:649-652, 2004
40. Newmark J. Nerve agents: pathophysiology and therapy of poisoning. Seminars in Neurology 24:185-196, 2004
41. Newmark J. The birth of nerve agent warfare: lessons from Syed Abbas Foroutan. Neurology 62:1590-1596, 2004
42. Newmark J, Hurst CG. Chemical emergencies (letter). N Engl J Med 350:2102-2103, 2004 43. Newmark J. Nerve agents. Neuro Clin N Am 23(2):623-641, 2005
44. Anderson DR, Holmes WW, Lee RB, Dalal SJ, Hurst CG, Maliner BI, Newmark J, Smith WJ. Sulfur mustard-induced neutropenia: treatment with granulocyte colony stimulating factor. Military Medicine 171:448-453, 2006
45. Newmark J, Langer JM, Capacio B, Barr J, McIntosh RG. Liquid sulfur mustard exposure. Military Medicine 172:196-199, 2007
46. Newmark J. Nerve agents: Review. The Neurologist, 13(1):20-32, 2007
47. Newmark HL, Newmark J. Vitamin D and Parkinson’s disease: an hypothesis. Movement Disorders 22(4):461-468, 2007
48. Hurst CG, Tuorinsky S, Madsen J, Newmark J, Hill B, Boardman C, Dawson J. USAMRICD Chemical Casualty Care Division’s Field Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook, 3rd edition. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, 2007
49. Hurst CG, Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In: Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Seventeenth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008
50. Sidell FR, Newmark J, McDonough JH. Nerve agents. In: Tuorinsky SR, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine, Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General and Borden Institute, 2009
51. Ballough GPH, Newmark J, Filbert MG, Levine ER. Neuroprotection as a treatment for nerve agent survivors. In: Tuorinsky SR, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine, Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Washington, DC, Office of the Surgeon General and Borden Institute, 2009
52. Vesely K, Newmark J. Acquisition programs in medical chemical defense. In: Tuorinsky SR, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine, Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General and Borden Institute, 2009
53. Newmark J. Neurological aspects of chemical and biological terrorist threats. Continuum Lifelong Learning in Neurology (American Academy of Neurology), 14 (5): 150-178, 2008
54. Newmark J. Neurological problems of famous musicians: the classical genre. J Child Neurol 24:1043-1050, 2009
55. Newmark J. Military bands as a population for studying musicians’ health (letter). Med Prob Perf Art 24:50, 2009
56. Newmark J. Nerve agents. In: Dobbs MR. Clinical Neurotoxicology: syndromes, substances, environments, pp. 646-659. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Saunders-Elsevier, 2009
57. Urbanetti JS and Newmark J. Clinical aspects of large-scale chemical events. In: Koenig KL and Schultz CH, eds. Koenig and Schultz’s Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practices, pp. 430-454. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010
58. Gavin CS, Bell M, Campbell S, Cieslak T, Dillon T, Eng R, Francis J, Green L, Harkins D, Newmark J. Categorizing Weapons of Mass Destruction Biological Agents into Postmortem Risk Groups. Fort Lee, Virginia: US Army Combined Arms Support Command, US Department of Defense, 2009
59. Loh Y, Swanberg MM, Ingram MV, Newmark J. Case report: long term cognitive sequelae of sarin exposure. Neurotoxicology 31:244-246, 2010
60. Hurst CG, Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In: Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Eighteenth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012
61. Kortepeter M, Newmark J. Sulfur mustard: a liquid, not a gas (letter). Clinical Infectious Diseases 54:885-886, 2012
62. Hurst CG, Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In Fauci AS et al., eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Nineteenth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2015
63. Newmark J. Clinical aspects of large-scale chemical events. In: Koenig KL and Schultz CH, eds. Koenig and Schultz’s Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practices, second edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 500-522
63a. Turkish-language translation by Kurtulus Akicsan posted on the website of Medeniyet University, Istanbul, 2017: www.medeniyet.edu.tr
64. Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In Fauci AS et al., eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Twentieth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2018
65. Cieslak TJ and Newmark J. Biological and chemical terrorism. In: Kliegman RM, S. Geme JW, Blum NJ, Shah SS, Tasker RC and Wilson KM, eds. Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2019, volume 2, chapter 741, pp. 3806-3815
66. Newmark J. Therapy for acute nerve agent poisoning: an update. Neurol Clin Pract 9(4):337-342, 2019.
67. Newmark J, Romano JA. Chemical warfare agents. In Fauci AS et al., eds. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Twenty-first Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, in press 2021
68. Cieslak TJ, Newmark J, Kortepeter M. Biological and chemical terrorism. In: Kliegman RM et al., eds. Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics, 22nd edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier, in press, 2022
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
1. Newmark J, Reid KH. Calcium reverses lidocaine-induced conduction block in rat fimbria in vitro. J Neurosci Meth 24:205, 1988
2. Payne T, Newmark J, Reid KH. Controlled local demyelination in rat fimbria: a new model for study of acute exacerbations in demyelinating disease. Neurology 40 (suppl. 1):216, 1990
3. Newmark J, Ballough GPH, Jaworski MJ, Filbert MG. Electrographic correlates of dexanabinol-induced neuroprotection following soman-induced status epilepticus. Neurology 56 (suppl. 3):286, 2001
4. Newmark J, Ballough GPH, Filbert MG. Dantrolene plus diazepam: a viable strategy for neuroprotection following soman-induced status epilepticus. Neurology 60 (suppl. 1):A385, 2003
5. Newmark J. The birth of nerve agent battlefield management: lessons from Dr. Syed Abbas Foroutan. Neurology 60 (suppl. 1): A87-88, 2003
6. Newmark J, Ballough GPH, Kan RK, Filbert MG. Pathology associated with nerve agentinduced seizures is greatly reduced by ketamine plus diazepam, a potential nerve agent neuroprotectant regimen. Neurology 68 (suppl. 1): A379, 2007
7. Newmark J. Neurasthenia due to World War I chemical warfare agent exposure: the opinions of COL Edward Vedder, MC, USA. Neurology 76 (Suppl.4):A194, 2011
8. Correa D, Newmark J Mercury exposure in ancient Peru: lessons for a changing industrial world. Neurology 76 (Suppl.4):A196, 2011
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES: These all appeared in Classical Overtones, published by Knolls Publishing Group, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. All single-authored.
1. Aphasia without amusia. 1:(2) 2-6, 1988
2. Thoracic outlet syndromes among musicians: Can symptoms a diagnosis make? 2(3):1113, 1989
3. Hermann Helmholtz and the physical definition of dissonance. 2(5):2-3, 1989
4. A commitment to new music: The Louisville Orchestra. 2(6): 5-14, 1990
5. Is the brain predisposed to melody? 3(1):2-10, 1990
6. Can composers produce musical descriptions of emotional states? 3(2):2-4, 1990
7. Controversy over the use of beta-blockers to curtail performance anxiety. 3(3):2-4, 1990
8. The Grawemeyer Award: The "Nobel Prize" of music composition. 3(4):2-10, 1991
9. Filling in the gaps: Reflections on Mozart, the Allegri Miserere, and Korsakoff's psychosis. 3(5):2-4, 1991
10. Focal dystonia among musicians. 3(6):3-5, 1991
11. Music as medical therapy: What use is it? 4(1):2-15, 199l
OTHER PRODUCTS
Hoffman KK, Weber DJ, Stopford W, Smith CG, Newmark J, Maliner BI, Clontz EP, Rutala WA. Chemical Terrorism Wall Chart. North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002 (issued to every emergency room in the state of North Carolina)
BROADCAST AWARDS:
These were all won by the 1999 satellite broadcast, “Medical Response to Chemical Warfare and Terrorism”, produced by the Chemical Casualty Care Division, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.
1. Bronze award, International Mercury Awards
2. Finalist, New York Festivals International Awards Competition
3. Second place, Aegis Award video competition
4. Crystal Award for Excellence given by The Communicator Awards
5. 1999 Excellence in Distance Learning Program Award for Healthcare/Telemedicine given by the United States Distance Learning Association
GRANTS AWARDED:
1. Effects of calcium ion upon rat fimbria conduction. Awarded 1 Jul 87, Research Committee, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, $4,500
2. Effect of calcium upon a demyelinated CNS fiber tract. Awarded 1 Apr 89, by Veterans' Administration Neurology and Neurobiology Review Board through Louisville Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, $25,000
3. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a unique patient with post-traumatic anticholinergicresponsive movement disorder. Awarded by Department of Clinical Investigation, Madigan Army Medical Center, 1 Nov 94, $900
ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Fall 1989: Led seminar on Music and the Brain, two credits, cosponsored by School of Music and Department of neurology, University of Louisville
Feb 1992: Served as Medical Corps Tactical Officer (evaluator for Combat Casualty Care Course), Camp Bullis, San Antonio, Texas
Spring semester, 1995: Subcontractor on Independent Study Student Contract at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington under Professor Ernestine Kimbro. Subject: Medical problems specific to instrumental musicians
1994-1997: Instructor in Introduction to Clinical Medicine, neurology section, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1997-present: Instructor in Introduction to Clinical Medicine, neurology section, and facilitator, course in medical ethics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
1997-2013: Instructor in Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties Course and Field Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties Course, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Have also presented iterations of these courses at:
1997: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) annual meeting, Nashville, Tennessee
1997: Buckley Air National Guard Base, Aurora, Colorado
1997: I US Army Corps, Fort Lewis, Lakewood, Washington
1998: Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas (two iterations)
1998: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
1998: 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1998: Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sigonella, Sicily, Italy
1998: Regional Training Site – Medical, Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia (two iterations)
1998: Ramstein Air Base, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany
1998: AMSUS annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas
1999: Regional Training Site – Medical, Camp Parks, Dublin, California
1999: Kuwait Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait
1999: 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing, Prince Sultan Air Base, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia
1999: Bahrain Military Hospital, Al-Riffa, Bahrain
1999: Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas (two iterations)
1999: 121 Station Hospital, Yongsan Army Post, Seoul, Korea
1999: AMSUS annual meeting, Anaheim, California
2000: Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany
2000: 121 Station Hospital, Yongsan Army Post, Seoul, Korea
2000: AMSUS annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada
2001: 28th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2001: Multinational Brigade – East, Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo
2001: Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany
2001: 330th Medical Brigade, Fort McCoy, Tomah, Wisconsin
2002: 339th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey
2002: 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Hopkinsville, Kentucky
2002: Naval Construction Battalion medical element, Port Hueneme Naval Base, Port Hueneme, California
2002: 21st Combat Suppport Hospital, Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas
2002: Reserve Officers Association of America annual meeting, Washington, DC
2002: 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Hinesville, Georgia
2002: Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany
2002: 330th Medical Brigade, Fort McCoy, Tomah, Wisconsin
2002: 3rd MEDCOM (forward), Camp Doha, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2002: US Army Hospital Afghanistan, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan
2002: AMSUS annual meeting, Louisville, Kentucky
2002: 909th Forward Surgical Team, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2002: 852nd Combat Support Hospital, Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia
2003: US Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2003: 10th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2003: 47th and 396th Combat Support Hospitals, Fort Lewis, Lakewood, Washington 2003: 31st Combat Support Hospital, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
2003: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 2003: 38th Parallel Medical Society, Seoul, Korea (both April and October meetings)
2003: 121st Station Hospital, Seoul, Korea
2003: 330th Medical Brigade, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois
2003: Nebraska Center for Bioterrorism Education, Omaha, Nebraska
2003: AMSUS annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas
2004: Medical NBC Unit of the Greek Armed Forces, 251 Air Force Hospital (Government of Greece), Athens, Greece
2005: 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas
2005: Nebraska Center for Bioterrorism Education, Omaha, Nebraska Co-host of satellite broadcast versions of this course, APR 99 (4000+ students), DEC 00 (4000+ students), NOV 01 (8000+ students), JAN 03 (6000+ students), MAY 03 (6200 students), AUG 03 (6500 students).
Starting in 2003, helped design and carry out the first Hospital Management of Mass Casualty Incidents course for US Department of State, also at Edgewood, Maryland. Assisted with two more iterations of this course in 2005.
2003-2009: Faculty and, 2005-2008, course director, of mini-course at American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, on neurological problems of famous musicians and composers.
2006: Faculty, mini-course at American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, on biological and chemical warfare agents of interest to neurologists
2006: First Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Neurology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
2013: Faculty, mini-course at American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, on lessons learned from the history of chemical warfare agents
OTHER PRESENTATIONS (not mentioned above):
1984: The Massachusetts General Hospital experience with medical problems of performing artists. First symposium in Biology of Music Making, Denver, Colorado
1985: Medical problems of performing musicians. Dean’s colloquium, Yale School of Music, New Haven, Connecticut
1985: Overuse syndrome in musicians. Annual meeting, International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, San Francisco, California
1985: Medical problems of performing musicians. New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
1986: Neurological problems of performing musicians. Grand rounds, occupational medicine residency, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
1989: MIDI technology as a tool for assessing playing-related complaints among keyboard players. Conference on performing arts medicine, Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California
1990: Neurological problems of performing musicians. Neurology grand rounds, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York
1990: Medical problems of performing musicians. Performing arts medicine symposium, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, New Jersey
1992: Neurological problems of performing artists. Neurology grand rounds, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
1992: Neurological problems of performing artists. Neurology grand rounds, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
1992: Neurological problems of performing artists. Neurology grand rounds, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
1995: Delayed unilateral post-traumatic tremor. Annual meeting, Performing Arts Medicine Association, Aspen, Colorado
1996: Delayed unilateral post-traumatic tremor. Neurology grand rounds, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
1996: Thoracic outlet syndromes. Grand rounds, King Saud University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1999: Nerve agents for neurologists. Neurology grand rounds, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
1999: Doctrinal issues in chemical casualty care. Shoresh bi-national data exchange symposium, Zikhron Ya’akov, Israel
1999: Case studies in special forces chemical casualty care. Special Forces medical symposium, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
2000: Unresolved issues in chemical casualty care. BioScience medical chemical defense review, Hunt Valley, Maryland
2000: Introduction to medical management of chemical casualties. Virginia Army National Guard Detachment, Camp Pendleton, Virginia Beach, Virginia
2000: Medical management of chemical casualties. Research Day, Phramongkutklao Hospital and College of Medicine, Royal Thai Army, Bangkok, Thailand
2000: Neuroprotection for nerve agent casualties. Technical Support Working Group binational symposium, Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Pudong, Republic of Korea
2000: Medical chemical defense overview. Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
2001: Introduction to medical management of chemical casualties. Army Reserve Section, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Anaheim, California
2001: Neuroprotection for nerve agent casualties. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Human Factors and Medicine Panel, Estoril, Portugal
2002: The neurologist’s role in chemical terrorism response. Plenary presentation, annual meeting, American Academy of Neurology, Denver, Colorado
2002: Incapacitating agents. Harvard School of Public Health symposium on domestic preparedness, Boston, Massachusetts
2002: Medical management of chemical casualties. Mid-Winter meeting, Reserve Officers Association of the United States, Washington, DC
2002: Treatment of chemical casualties. Annual meeting of National Association of Medical Examiners, Indianapolis, Indiana
2002: Nerve agents for neurologists. Neurology grand rounds, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
2002: Chemical agents as a threat to the food supply. Annual meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Orlando, Florida
2002: Introduction to chemical agents. Dean’s Day, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
2002: Nerve agents for paediatric neurologists. Child Neurology Society annual meeting, Washington, DC
2003: History of the medical response to chemical warfare and terrorism. Harvard Club of Washington, DC
2003: Medical problems of chemical and biological agents. Grand rounds, Frederick Memorial Hospital, Frederick, Maryland
2003: Nerve agents for neuroscientists. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland
2003: The birth of nerve agent warfare: lessons from Syed Abbas Foroutan. Section on the History of Neurology, American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawai’i
2003: WMD medical defense. US Strategic Command medical symposium, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
2004: Chemical warfare agents for neurologists. New York State Neurological Society, Beth Israel Hospital, New York, New York
2004: New developments in nerve agent casualty care. Faculty symposium, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
2004: Nerve agents for neurologists. Special address, neurology staffs of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas
2004: Introduction to chemical agents. Internal medicine grand rounds, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
2004: History of chemical warfare agents. ROTC Detachment, Columbia University, New York, New York
2004: Neuroprotection as a viable strategy for nerve agent survivors. BioScience medical chemical defense review, Hunt Valley, Maryland
2005: Medical management of casualties and preparedness for WMD terrorism. 8th Medical Brigade medical symposium, East Elmhurst, New York
2005: Operational medicine in the War on Terror. Dean’s Day, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
2005: Medical management of chemical casualties. Market*Access Domestic Preparedness Symposium, Washington, DC
2005: Nerve agents for neurologists. Neurology grand rounds, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2005: Nerve agents for neurologists. Neurology grand rounds, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
2005: Nerve agents for neurologists. Neurology grand rounds, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky
2006: Neurological problems in famous composers. Child Neurology Society annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007: Military acquisition perspective on defense against WMD agents for industry. Cambridge Associates industry-government symposium, Washington, DC
2007: Neuroprotection as a strategy for nerve agent poisoning. NIH working panel on neuroprotection, Washington, DC
2007: What neurologists should know about chemical warfare agents. Neurology grand rounds, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania
2007: Introduction to chemical warfare. Neurology grand rounds, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2007: Neurological problems in famous composers. Child Neurology Society annual meeting, Québec City, Québec, Canada
2007: Update on nerve agent countermeasures. 27th annual Army Medical Department Neurology Conference, Washington, DC
2008: Acquisition for the Medical Corps Consultant. Army Medical Corps Consultants’ meeting, Washington, DC
2009: What neurologists should know about chemical warfare agents. Neurology grand rounds, Sparrow Hospital and Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan
2009: Unified National Biodefense Portfolio. Advanced Program Briefing for Industry, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical/Biological Defense, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
2009: Targeting the nervous system: weaponized anticholinesterases. 14th annual meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Charleston, South Carolina
2009: Update from the chemical/biological defense pipeline. AMEDD/Triservice Neurology Conference, Tacoma, Washington
2010: Sulfur mustard injury. Clinical toxicology grand rounds, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
2010: Case report: cognitive difficulties following battlefield sarin exposure. Department of Veterans’ Affairs Research Advisory Group on Gulf War Illnesses, Washington, DC
2010: Cases of neurological disorders in famous composers and musicians. Grand rounds, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2011: The military healthcare system. Dean’s Day panel, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
2011: Neurobehavioral abnormalities in a battlefield sarin casualty. Neurology grand rounds, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2011: Weaponized anticholinergic agents. Neurology morning report, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2011: Updates from the medical chemical defense pipeline. North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology, Washington, DC
2012: Nerve agents for neurologists. Annual meeting, California Neurology Society, Anaheim, California
2012: Unanswered questions in chemical casualty care. 18th biannual Medical Chemical Defense BioScience Review, Hunt Valley, Maryland
2012: What neurologists should know about nerve agents. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York
2013: Introduction to the chemical threat. Military Medical Operations Symposium, ARCENT (Army Component, US Central Command), Washington, DC
2013: Pathophysiology of chemical agents. Masters 15 Death Investigation conference, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri
2013: Sarin on the battlefield. California Neurology Society annual meeting, Monterey, California
2013: Sarin on the battlefield. CounterACT seminar series, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California (web streamed at https://ucdavis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/CounterACT+CenterA+Colonel+Jonathan+Newmar k+10-7-13/0_dqjpa2y4)
2013: Sarin on the battlefield. Seminar series, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
2013: Sarin on the battlefield. Grand Rounds, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland
2014: What neurologists should know about nerve agents. Neuroterrorism course, California Neurology Society, Incline Village, Nevada
2014: Sarin on the battlefield. UC NeuroSociety, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2014: Introduction to the chemical threat. Disaster Preparedness Day, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015: Sarin on the battlefield. Resident seminar series, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015: Writing for amateur chamber musicians. Midwest Composers Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2015: Tales of a chemical casualty Subject Matter Expert. Resident seminar series, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015: What neurologists should know about nerve agents. Grand rounds, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015: Neurological problems of famous composers and musicians. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2017: Battlefield sarin exposure. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington DC
2018: Neurological problems of famous composers and musicians. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington DC
2018: Battlefield sarin exposure. Neurology teaching conference, University of Iowa Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa
2018: Writing for amateur chamber players. West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia
2019: Military/VA Medicine 101. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington DC
2019: Writing for amateur chamber players. New Music on the Bayou, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana
2019: Theodor Billroth is alive and well and living in Washington, DC. New Music DC, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
2020: Battlefield toxic exposure: a case discussion. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, George Washington University, Washington DC
2021: Nerve agents on the battlefield: 2021 update. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting on Demand (online)
2021: Battlefield toxic exposure. Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington DC (online)
2021: Music and P & S. Physicians’ Parlor, Alumni Association, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York (online)
2021: Military medicine. Fourth year elective, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York (online)
2022: Focal dystonia among musicians. Resident didactic series, Department of Neurology, George Washington University, Washington DC (online)
2022: World War I medicine. Fourth year elective, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York (online)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Neurological Association (elected 2008)
Member, International Outreach Committee, 2015-2018
American Academy of Neurology (fellow)
Elected Councilor, Section on the History of Neurology, 2004-06 and 2006-08
Elected Councilor, Government Services Section, 2010-2012
Performing Arts Medicine Association
Member, Committee on Standards Member, Nominations Committee, 2001-2003 Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Reserve Officers Association of the United States
Elected Department of Maryland Surgeon, 2000-2011
Elected Department of Maryland Army Senior Vice-President 2002-2003 Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces (organization disestablished 2014)
Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain) (overseas fellow)
College-Conservatory of Music Graduate Student Association (elected vice-president 2014-2015) National Society of Leadership and Success (inducted 2015) Society of Composers, Inc. 2014-present
MUSICAL Curriculum Vitae
Composition
Website: http://jonathannewmark.com
Study:
Study with Homer Keller, National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan (1968), James McVoy, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania (1992-93), Gloria Wilson Swisher, Shoreline College, Shoreline, Washington (1993-96), Jonathan Kolm, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia (2011-2013), all privately. Participant in the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East at Bennington College,
Bennington, Vermont since 1981, with only one missed summer. As composer student there, have had lessons with Martin Bresnick (Yale University), Allen Shawn (Bennington College), Lisa Bielawa, among others, and performed over a dozen world premieres by composers including Paul Moravec, Pierre Jalbert, Frank Retzel, Eleanor Cory, Eleanor Armer, Kay Kyurim Rhee, Ted Hearne, Ben Stonaker, Emily Praetorius, Scott Wheeler, and Kurt Rohde.
Composer-in-residence, Lyndon Baines Johnson Middle School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2010
Study under Christopher Theofanidis (Yale University) at the Accent11 Festival composition seminar, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011
Study under Caroline Mallonée, Walden School Creative Musicians’ Retreat, Dublin, New Hampshire, June 2014
MM in composition, College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio, degree awarded December 2015. Major teachers: Profs. Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, Michael Fiday. Participant composer, Charlotte New Music Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2015, including study with Armando Bayolo and Lawrence Dillon Participant composer, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, New York, New York, 2016, including study with Jeff Scott Participant composer, Connecticut Summerfest, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, 2017
Composer fellow, nief-norf festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2018, including study with Christopher Adler
Composer fellow, International Trombone Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2018, including study with Eric Ewazen
Composer fellow, artsonglab, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2019, including study with Jeffrey Ryan
Composer fellow, International Trombone Festival, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 2019, including study with Arthur Gottschalk
Composer fellow, June in Buffalo Festival (virtual), University at Buffalo, Amherst, New York, 2020, including study with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Hilda Paredes
Performer/composer fellow, Composer/Performer/Improviser Summit, nief-norf summer festival (virtual), 2021, including study with Carolyn Chen and Kendall K. Williams
Composer fellow, Operation Opera, 2022, Four Corners Ensemble, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
Artist residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, 2021 (three weeks)
Awards: Co-winner, Southeastern Composers Competition, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 2000, for String Trio (1997). Judges: Judith Shatin, Adolphus Hailstork Honorable mention, Wright State University Horn Competition, Dayton, Ohio, 2015, for Chaconne and Fugue (1993)
Selected for performance, Ball State University Festival of New Music, Muncie, Indiana, 2016, for Serenade for Wind Quintet (2013)
Semifinalist, 2016 American Prize, chamber music, student division, Danbury, Connecticut, for Piano Quintet (2015)
Selected for performance, TEMPO (The Epicenter Music Performance Organization), California State University Northridge, Northridge, California, 2017, Secret Atop the Bluff (2015)
Selected for performance, Phantom Brass, CalArts, Valencia, California, 2018, Introduction and Fugue for Brass Quartet (2015)
Winner of the 2017 Call for Scores, Boston New Music Festival (Juventas New Music Ensemble), Secret Atop the Bluff (2015)
Selected for performance, West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia, 2018 (Great Noise Ensemble), Etude for Jim and Laurie (2015)
Selected for performance, New Music on the Bayou, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana, 2019, Arithmetic (2018)
Selected for performance, West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia, 2019, Piano Sonata (2014)
Selected for performance, Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, 2020, Secret Atop the Bluff (2015)
Selected for performance, Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, held virtually, 2021, Arithmetic (2018)
Artist residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, 2021
Organizations: Baltimore Composers Forum, 1998-2006 and 2016Society of Composers, Inc. 2015Friday Morning Music Club Composers Group 2016Works: Cumberland Falls Trail, for English horn, bass clarinet, and piano. Premiere by Tri-County Musicians, Founders Hall, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2022. 2 movements, 5 min
Duo Sonatina for two bassoons. Premiere by the Sylvan Ensemble, Olympia, Washington, 1996. Has also been performed at Baltimore Composers Forum, Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1995; at an Interlochen alumni concert, National City Christian Church, Washington, DC, 2008; at Howard University, Washington, DC; at the Salvation Army Chapel, Germantown, Maryland, 2019, Victor Litz Music, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2019, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 2019, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 2019, and at IDRS National Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022 (last three by Thomas Priest and Daniel Lipori). Published 2012, TrevCo Music, Inc., Tallevast, Florida. Philip Myers, principal horn of the New York Philharmonic, has arranged this work for two horns. 4 movements, 18 min
Chaconne and Fugue in memoriam Dr. John C. Wood, Jr., for horn and piano. Premiered by Phillip Bonney and the composer, Fort Lewis, Washington, 1995. Has also been
performed at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2000; Saint Andrews Church, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2006; Baltimore Composers Forum, Catonsville, Maryland, 1999; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York (two different years); View from the Edge series, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2015; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland, 2018; Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia, 2018. Published by WaveFront Music, Saint Augustine, Florida, 2017. Also available in version for bass trombone and piano. 9 min
String trio for violin, viola and cello. Premiered by the Baltimore Composers Forum (composer as violist), Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, Maryland, 1999. Also performed at Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1999; Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 2000; Accent11 Festival, CollegeConservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011; and by Sybarite5 at Tutti Festival, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 2020. 3 movements, 15 min
Kosovo Diversion Waltz, for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, and bass, written for the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont and premiered there in 1999. 6 min
Topoff, for English horn, two bassoons, cello, and bass, written for the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont and premiered there in 2000. 5 min
Circles, text by Black Elk, for baritone and piano, written for the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, premiered by Daniel Snyder and the composer as pianist, Baltimore Composers Forum, First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001. Choral version performed at Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019. 4 min
Introduction and Scherzo for oboe, bassoon, and piano, commissioned and premiered by Jan Jakob Mooij, oboe, and Hans Cats, bassoon with the composer, at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, 2001. Also performed at Baltimore Composers Forum, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 2003. Ballet version choreographed by Molly Jean Kirkup Heer, performed online, Baltimore Composers Forum, 2020. Published 2011 by TrevCo Music Inc., Tallevast, Florida. 2 movements, 7 min.
Just Wait – a Major Second, for string orchestra, commissioned by Lyndon Baines Johnson Middle School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and performed by their orchestra at an allcity orchestra festival at Cibola High School, Albuquerque, 2010. 5 min
Serenade for woodwind quintet, 2013. Premiered by CCM Chamber Players, February 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio. Performed by Ball State University graduate quintet, BSU Festival of New Music, Muncie, Indiana, March 2016, The Georgetown Quintet, Fairfax Old Town Hall, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2017, and Patagonia Winds, Baltimore Composers Forum, Saint Matthew Church, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019. 3 movements, 9 min
Six Bones for Six Bones for six trombones (four tenor, two bass), 2014. Performed at View from the Edge series (composition department), College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2014. Subsequent performances at composition recital, CCM, 2015, at Midwest Composers Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015, and at International Trombone Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2018. Published by WaveFront Music, Saint Augustine, Florida, 2016. 6 movements, 12 min
TaylorMade for solo percussion, 2014. Premiered at Classical Revolution Cincinnati, Northside Tavern, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2014. Subsequent performance of revision for percussion and toy piano at composition recital, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. 4 min
Island in the Sky for tenor saxophone, percussion, and piano, 2014. Premiered (2014) by the Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat, Dublin, New Hampshire. 4 min
Sonata for piano solo, 2014. Two movements premiered at View from the Edge series (composition department), College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2014. Entire work premiered at composition recital, CCM, 2015. Performed at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, at nief-norf festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2018; at Composers Group of the Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC, 2018; at West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia, 2019; on an online concert of the Friday Morning Music Club of Washington, 2020; at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, 2021; at Composers Society of Montgomery County, Silver Spring, Maryland, 2022; at Friday Morning Music Club, Rockville, Maryland, 2022; and at New Music DC, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2022. Performed by pianist Martin Jones, Takoma Park, Maryland, 2018; Radford, Virginia, 2018; Arlington Heights, Illinois, 2019; WFMT-FM, Chicago, Illinois, live broadcast, 2019; North Manchester, Indiana, 2019; West Lafayette, Indiana, 2019; Jamestown, Rhode Island, 2019; and Radford, Virginia, 2019. Included on CD by Martin Jones, PnOVA label, American Piano Series volume 5, released November 2019. Semifinalist, New York City Contemporary Piano Symposium, 2021. 4 movements, 16 min
Hoffman 36 for piano trio, 2014. Premiere 2017, West Shore Trio, Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland. 2 min
Trinity Overture for small orchestra, 2014. Public reading, CCM Philharmonia, CollegeConservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. Formal premiere, Trinity Chamber Orchestra of Washington, Bethesda, Maryland, 2015. 4 min
Four Violas for four violas, 2014. 2 min
Introduction and Fugue for brass quartet (trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba), 2015. Also available in version for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones. Workshop reading, Open Scores, The
Westerlies quartet, New York, New York, 2016. Premiere, Phantom Brass, CalArts, Valencia, California, 2018. 4 min
Asking for It, setting of poem by Siegfried Sassoon, baritone and piano, 2015. Premiered at View from the Edge series (composition department, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. Subsequent performances, CCM recital, 2015; Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2016 and 2018; MSM recital, Manhattan School of Music, New York, New York, 2022. 4 min
Piano Quintet for string quartet and piano, 2015. One movement premiered at practicum concert, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. Whole work premiered at composition recital, CCM, 2015. Subsequent performances, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC, 2017; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland, 2018. Semi-finalist, The American Prize (student chamber music division), 2016. 3 movements, 17 min
Secret atop the Bluff for violin, bass clarinet, and piano, 2015. Premiered at Charlotte New Music Festival, Queen’s University Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2015. Subsequent performances by TEMPO Ensemble, California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, California, by Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia, and by Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cambridge, Massachusetts, all 2017, and by Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland, 2019. Winner, Juventas New Music Ensemble score call, Boston New Music Festival, 2017. Finalist, The American Prize (professional chamber music division), 2019. 9 min
Tom Dooley without the Fringe on Top for string quartet, 2015. Premiered by Beo Quartet at Charlotte New Music Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2015. Appears on upcoming CD (PARMA Recordings Inc.), Altius Quartet, Boulder, Colorado, 2019. 3 min
Etude for Jim and Laurie for C trumpet and bassoon, 2015. Premiered at View from the Edge series (composition department, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati), 2015. Canadian premiere, Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, 2016 (by the namesake dedicatees, Jim and Lauren G. Stubbs). Performed at Musicians for Refugees, Saint John’s Church, North Saanich, British Columbia, 2016. Performed at Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 2016. Performed by Great Noise Ensemble, West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont, West Virginia, 2018. Performed at West Shore Arts Council, Langford, British Columbia, 2019. Published, TrevCo Music Publishing, Tallevast, Florida, 2016. Selected as background music for book trailer, Amy Nathan, author, Making Time for Making Music, Oxford University Press, 2018. 3 min
Better on Slickrock for flute and guitar or percussion, 2015. Read by Duo Damiana (Molly Barth and Dieter Hennings), College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. Performances: Walden School Alumni Concert, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2018; Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019, both with vibraphone. 5 min
A Pebble from the Brook for oboe, horn, and piano, 2015. Semipublic reading (Alyssa Morris, oboe; Timothy A. Martin, horn; composer, piano) at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. Premiere at Composers Group, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC, 2018. 5 min
Duo for Al for vibraphone and marimba, 2015. Published in Allen Otte Folio, John Lane and Lauren Fink, eds., Media Press (mediapressmusic.com), 2017. Premiere online by Yarn/Wire Ensemble (Dennis K. Sullivan and Russell Greenberg), Walden School alumni forum, 2021. 4.5 min
Quasi-Palindrome for wind quintet, 2016. Premiered by Daraja Ensemble at Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017. 3 min
Village Saxtet for flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, horn, and bassoon, 2016. 7 min. Premiered at Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, Mannes School of Music, New York, New York, 2016.
Clara’s Song (from Haber’s Law) for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2017. Text by Don Bogen. 6 min. Studio recording, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 2017
Awakenings for horn and harp, 2017. 10 min. Also available for tenor trombone and harp. Premiered at Connecticut Summerfest, Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut, 2017, by Apple Orange Pair.
Speed Trap on Wide, Wide Dixie Highway, for bass trombone and piano, 2017. Premiered at International Trombone Festival, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 2019. 6 min
Arithmetic, setting of a Carl Sandburg poem, for soprano, flute, cello, piano, and percussion, 2018. Premiered at nief-norf summer festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2018. Performed at New Music on the Bayou, Monroe, Louisiana, 2019. Presented virtually at SCI National conference, 2021. 9 min
The Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman, for two violins and harpsichord, 2018. 6 min
Moon, Dog, Heart, for contralto and piano, to text by Athena Kildegaard, 2019. Premiered at artsonglab, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, 2019. 6 min
Dream of Pursuit and Fritz Haber Accepts his Nobel Prize (from Haber’s Law) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano, 2017. Studio recording 2020, June in Buffalo festival, SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst, New York. 6 min
The death of Fritz Haber, 1934 (from Haber’s Law) for baritone and piano, 2020. Studio recording, Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2021. 5 min
Crooked Brook for solo piano, 2020. Online premiere by composer, Baltimore Composers Forum (youtube), 2020. Studio recording, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC, 2022. 1 min
Outro 1,3,5 for piano quartet, 2020. Online premiere by Carnac Quartet, Friday Morning Music Club (Youtube), 2020. Live broadcast, Carnac Quartet, Jamkazam Classical Festival, 2021. 2.5 min
Five Scenes from Haber’s Law for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano, 2020. Text by Don Bogen. 21 min
Birthday Trio for flute and two violas, 2021. Premiere at house concert, Naperville, Illinois, by Trish Maxson, Cindy Buhse and Emma Buhse, 2021. 5 movements, 14 min
Alloy Saved by Bell for solo percussion, 2021. Online premiere by Turner McCabe, niefnorf virtual cpi summit, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2021. 6 min
Robin’s Birthday Waltz for viola and guitar, 2021. 3 min
Parlor Piece for unaccompanied cello, 2021. Online premiere by Drew Helmer, Columbia P & S Physicians Parlor, New York, New York (online),1 min
Haber’s Law, chamber opera in two acts to libretto by Don Bogen, 2021. Piano-vocal score, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and TTB chorus. Four scenes scored for Pierrot quintet and two singers premiered at Operation Opera, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, 2022. 65 min
Traffic (from Let It Be Said) for clarinet in Bb, vibraphone, and narrator, 2022. Text by Miescha Lowry. 3 min
CD releases
Trios and Duos, released on Music Unlimited label in 2009, including recordings of String Trio (1997), Duo Sonatina for two bassoons (1996), Introduction and Scherzo for oboe, bassoon, and piano (2001), and Chaconne and Fugue in memoriam Dr. John C. Wood, Jr. for horn and piano (1997). Performers include members of the Marine Chamber Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Quadrants vol. 3, released on Navona label in 2019, featuring the Altius Quartet (Boulder, Colorado) and including Tom Dooley Without The Fringe On Top (2015)
American Piano Series vol. 5, PNoVA label, released 2019, featuring Martin Jones, piano playing Piano Sonata (2014)
To-be-named release, Naxos label, in 2023, featuring flutist Iwona Glinka, and including Better on Slickrock (2015)
Recent performances
January 2016: Christ Church, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA: Etude for Jim and Laurie (Jim and Laurie Stubbs)
January 2016: Refugee Benefit Concert, Deep Cove, British Columbia, CANADA: Etude for Jim and Laurie (Jim and Laurie Stubbs)
March 2016: Ball State University Festival of New Music, Muncie, Indiana: Serenade for wind quintet
June 2016: Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, New York, New York: Village Saxtet
August 2016: Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East, Bennington, Vermont: Etude for Jim and Laurie (Jim and Laurie Stubbs)
September 2016: Open Labs, Westerlies Music, New York, New York: Introduction and Fugue for Brass Quartet
November 2016: Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland: Asking For It (Joseph Regan, Timothy McReynolds)
January 2017: The Georgetown Quintet, Bonita Lestina Performance Series, Fairfax, Virginia: Serenade for wind quintet
March 2017: TEMPO (The Epicenter Music Performance Organization), California State University Northridge, Northridge, California: Secret Atop the Bluff
April 2017: Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia: Secret Atop the Bluff
May 2017: Daraja Ensemble, Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland: QuasiPalindrome for wind quintet
June 2017: Apple Orange Pair, Connecticut Summerfest, Hartford, Connecticut: Awakenings September 2017: Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Secret Atop the Bluff
November 2017: West Shore Piano Trio, Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland: Hoffman 36
December 2017: Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC: Piano Quintet
March 2018: Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland. Chaconne and Fugue in memoriam Dr. John C. Wood, Jr.
April 2018: Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia. Chaconne and Fugue in memoriam Dr. John C. Wood, Jr.
April 2018: Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland: Asking For It
May 2018: College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York. Piano Sonata (portion)
May 2018: Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland. Piano Quintet
June 2018: nief-norf festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Piano Sonata (1 movt)
June 2018: nief-norf festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Arithmetic
June 2018: International Trombone Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Six Bones for Six Bones
July 2018: Alumni concert, The Walden School, Dublin, New Hampshire. Better on Slickrock
September 2018: West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia (Great Noise Ensemble). Etude for Jim and Laurie
November 2018: StageFree, Potter Violins, Takoma Park, Maryland; Martin Jones, piano. Piano Sonata (2 movts)
November 2018: Radford University, Radford, Virginia; Martin Jones, piano. Piano Sonata (2 movts)
December 2018: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; Phantom Brass. Introduction and Fugue for brass quartet
December 2018: Composers Group of the Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC. Piano Sonata (2014) (1 movt)
December 2018: Composers Group of the Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC. A Pebble from the Brook (2015)
February 2019: Private concert, Germantown, Maryland. Duo Sonatina for two bassoons (portion)
March 2019: West Shore Arts Council, Langford, British Columbia, CANADA. Etude for Jim and Laurie (2015)
March 2019: Victor Litz Music, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Duo Sonatina for two bassoons (portion)
April 2019: Better on Slickrock (2015). Baltimore Composers Forum, Baltimore, Maryland
June 2019: Arithmetic (2018). New Music on the Bayou, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana
July 2019: Moon, Dog, Heart (2019). Lynne McMurtry and Alison D’Amato, artsonglab, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA.
July 2019: International Trombone Festival, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Speed Trap on Wide, Wide Dixie Highway (2017).
September 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia
October 2019: Secret Atop the Bluff (2015). Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland
October 2019: Duo Sonatina (1993). Thomas Priest and Daniel Lipori, bassoons. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
October 2019: Duo Sonatina (1993). Thomas Priest and Daniel Lipori, bassoons. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
November 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Martin Jones, piano. First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Arlington Heights, Illinois
November 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Martin Jones, piano. Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana
November 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Martin Jones, piano. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
November 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Martin Jones, piano. Saint Matthew’s Church, Jamestown, Rhode Island
November 2019: Piano Sonata (2014). Martin Jones, piano. Radford University, Radford, Virginia
March 2020: String Trio (1997). Sybarite5, Tutti festival, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
September 2020: Crooked Brook (2020). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Baltimore Composers Forum (online, youtube)
November 2020: Introduction and Scherzo (2001), from the 2009 CD recording, with choreography by Molly Jean Kirkup Heer. Baltimore Composers Forum (online, youtube)
December 2020: Outro 1,3,5 (2020), Carnac Piano Quartet. Friday Morning Music Club (online, youtube)
December 2020: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Friday Morning Music Club (online, youtube)
January 2021: Outro 1,3,5 (2020), Carnac Piano Quartet. Jamkazam Classical Festival (online, youtube)
February 2021: Outro 1,3,5 (2020), Carnac Piano Quartet. Friday Morning Music Club 135th anniversary gala (online, youtube)
April 2021: Duo for Al (2015), Yarn/Wire Ensemble. Walden School alumni composers forum (online, youtube)
May 2021: Arithmetic (2018) (nief-norf festival performance). Society of Composers, Inc. national conference (online)
July 2021: Speed Trap on Wide, Wide Dixie Highway (2017) for bass trombone and piano (2019 ITF performance). Baltimore Composers Forum (online)
July 2021: The death of Fritz Haber, 1934 (from Haber’s Law). Jason Buckwalter, baritone; Bonghee Lee, piano. Baltimore Composers Forum concert (online)
August 2021: Alloy Saved by Bell (2021). Turner McCabe, percussion. Nief-norf summit concert (online)
September 2021: Birthday Trio (2021). Private house concert, Naperville, Illinois
December 2021: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
February 2022: Crooked Brook (2020). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC (online)
April 2022: Asking For It (2015). Henry Griffin, baritone. Manhattan School of Music, New York, New York
April 2022: Cumberland Falls Trail (1988). Tri-County Musicians, Founders Hall, Ridgefield, Connecticut
May 2022: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Composers Society of Montgomery County, Silver Spring, Maryland
May 2022: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. Friday Morning Music Club, Ingleside at King Farm, Rockville, Maryland
June 2022: Four scenes from Haber’s Law (2021). Four Corners Ensemble. Operation Opera, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
October 2022: Piano Sonata (2014). Jonathan Newmark, piano. New Music DC 2022, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Radio plays
Spring 2017: WZRD-FM, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Secret Atop the Bluff (two plays)
April 2017 and May 2017: WAMU-FM, Washington DC, Capital Soundtrack project, Secret Atop the Bluff
March 2018: Hawai’i Public Radio HPR-2, Honolulu, Singing and Other Sins, Asking For It
April 2018: WAMU-FM, Washington DC, Capital Soundtrack project, Island in the Sky
August 2019: WTUL-FM, New Orleans, Tom Dooley Without the Fringe on Top
November 2019: WFMT-FM, Chicago (live broadcast). Piano Sonata (2014), Martin Jones, piano
February 2020: Hawai’i Public Radio HPR-2, Honolulu, Singing and Other Sins, Moon, Dog, Heart Piano Study with: Lorina Havill, Juilliard Preparatory Division and Manhattan School Preparatory Division, New York, New York, 1967-70; Thomas Schumacher, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1982-84; Brenda Kee, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1985-90. Harpsichord study with George Lucktenberg, National Music Camp, Interlochen, 1968.
Participant at Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, every year since 1981 with one missed summer, as pianist and violist.
Works performed in the past 20 years (not complete):
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto, K. 488 (Beethoven Nightcappers, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC)
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and band (389th Army Band, Cecil Community College, North East, Maryland)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Choral Fantasy (piano solo) (University of Louisville School of Music, Louisville, Kentucky)
Leos Janacek: Concertino for piano and chamber ensemble (Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quintet op. 16 for piano and winds (BioScience conference, Hunt Valley, Maryland; 389th Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio, op. 11 for clarinet, cello, and piano (Saint Andrew’s Church, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, and also Bennington)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio op. 96 “Archduke” (Bennington)
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet #1, op. 15 (Festival of the Arts, Louisville, Kentucky)
Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Quintet for Piano and winds, op. 43 (Sylvan Ensemble, Olympia, Washington)
Bohuslav Martinu: Sextet for piano and winds, 1932 (Sylvan Ensemble, Olympia Washington, and Bennington)
Ludwig Thuille: Sextet op. 6 for piano and winds (Sylvan Ensemble, Olympia, Washington; 389th Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
Carl Maria von Weber: Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Bohuslav Martinu: Trio (1944) for Flute, Cello, and Piano (Bennington)
Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio (1923) (Bennington)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata from Der Musikalisches Opfer (Bennington) (harpsichord)
Kevin Wilt: Prelude and Passacaglia for flute and piano (Accent11 Festival, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Quartet #1, 1942 (Bennington)
Bohuslav Martinu: Bergerettes for piano trio (Bennington)
Peter Schickele: Serenade for Three for clarinet, violin, and piano (Bennington)
Peter Schickele: Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (Bennington)
Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio, op. 30 (Bennington; First Special Forces Chapel, Fort Lewis, Washington)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio op. 99 “Archduke” (Bennington)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio op. 67 (Bennington)
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio op. 65 (US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
Antonin Reicha: Trio for clarinet, horn, and piano, op. 364 (389th Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
Halsey Stevens: Sonata for trumpet and piano (389th Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for winds and piano (University of Louisville School of Music; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland; Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, New York)
Daniel Strong Godfrey: Dances in Checkered Shade, for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano (co-premiere, 2009) (Bennington)
Leanna Kirchoff: Trio Sonata for piano, flute, oboe, and bassoon, commissioned by the players, 2010 (Bennington)(premiere)
Paul Moravec: Benningtones, for small ensemble (premiere) (Bennington)
Francis Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano (Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts; BioScience conference, Hunt Valley, Maryland)
Erno Dohnanyi: Sextet, op. 37, for clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, and piano (Bennington)
Kevin Laba: At the Doorways I Repeated (2012), for five winds and harpsichord (premiere)(Bennington)
Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet (1876) (Bennington)
Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony, five-instrument reduction by Anton Webern (Bennington)
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio op. 63 (Bennington)
Xenia Beckstrom: Mango and Ice Cream (wind quintet + piano) (premiere) (Bennington)
Jonathan Newmark: Chaconne and Fugue for horn and piano (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland)
Lucas Strakowski: Klavierstuck (premiere) (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati)
Ben Stonaker: Past in Flood, for piano and wind quintet (premiere)(Bennington)
Ted Hearne: Three Rhythmic Studies (piano quartet)(premiere)(Bennington)
Gordon Jacob: Trio (1955) for flute, oboe, and harpsichord (Bennington)
Paul Hindemith: Sonata (1939) for horn and piano (Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland)
James Allen: Four Sketches (2012) for viola and piano (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati)
Kurt Rohde: Post-Igor (2015) for septet (premiere) (Bennington)
PDQ Bach: “Erotica” Variations for banned instruments and piano (CollegeConservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Christopher A. Kaminski: Catch Me (2016) for wind quintet + piano (premiere) (Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, New York)
Paul Hindemith: Three Pieces for Five Instruments (1925) (Bennington)
Jesse Jones: Scherzo for piano and wind quintet (2016) (premiere) (Bennington)
Nick DiBerardino: Song after Salkantay (2016) for mixed octet (premiere) (Bennington)
Jonathan Newmark: Secret Atop the Bluff (2015) for bass clarinet, violin, and piano (Friday Morning Music Club, Fairfax, Virginia; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland)
Igor Stravinsky: Septet (Bennington)
Leo Smit: Sextet for piano and wind quintet (1933) (Bennington)
Elliott Schwartz: Divertimento #4 for flute, bass, and piano (1980) (Bennington)
Emily Praetorius: what/alarmclock for wind quintet and piano (2017) (premiere) (Bennington)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Quintet (2015) (Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (portion) College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (portion) nief-norf festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Pierre Jalbert: Wind Dances (2018) (portion) (Bennington)
Alfred Uhl: Kleines Konzert (1937) (Bennington)
John Harbison: Variations (1982) for clarinet, violin, and piano (Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC; Rock Creek Chamber Players, Bethesda, Maryland)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (portion) Composers Group, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC
Jonathan Newmark: A Pebble from the Brook (2015) for oboe, horn, and piano. Composers Group, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC
Franz Josef Haydn: Piano Trio #31 in G (house concert, Bethesda, Maryland)
Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (portion) (house concert, Bethesda, Maryland)
Carl Maria von Weber: Trio op. 63 (portion) (house concert, Bethesda, Maryland)
Allen Shawn: Dialogue for Piano and Strings (2019) (premiere) (Bennington)
Scott Wheeler: Unclouded (2019) (premiere) (Bennington)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (West Fork New Music Festival, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia)
Jonathan Newmark: Crooked Brook (2010) (Baltimore Composers Forum, virtual concert)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (Friday Morning Music Club, Blue House Productions, Kensington, Maryland)
Hunter Long: Like sweet bells jangled out of time and harsh (2021) for left hand piano and right hand percussion (premere)(nief-norf summit, online)
Steven Schwarz: Variations on In the Garden (2021) for piano four hands (premiere) (New Music DC, Corcoran School of the Arts, Washington DC)
Paul Hindemith: Quartet (1938) for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (Friday Morning Music Club, Ingleside at King Farm, Rockville, Maryland
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (Composers Society of Montgomery County, Silver Spring, Maryland)
Jonathan Newmark: Piano Sonata (2014) (Friday Morning Music Club, Ingleside at King Farm, Rockville, Maryland)
Viola
Private study with Marjorie Bram-MacPhillamy, 1965-70
Member of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra (professional per service contract), 1993-97
Other orchestras: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-74; Jewish Community Center Orchestra, Rockville, Maryland, 1980-81; NIH Chamber Orchestra, Bethesda, Maryland, 1981-82; Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, Boston, Massachusetts, 198285; Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990-93; Trinity Chamber Orchestra, Washington, DC, 2006-present
Participant at Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, every year since 1981 with one missed summer, as pianist and violist.
Works performed in the past 15+ years (not complete):
Bela Bartók: Quartet #5 (Chamber Music Conference, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont)
Bela Bartók: Quartet #6 (Bennington)
Randall Thompson: Suite for Oboe, Clarinet, and Viola (Bennington; 389th Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Sylvan Ensemble, Olympia, Washington; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Carl Nielsen: Quartet op. 44 (Bennington)
Franz Schubert: Octet (Bennington)
Zoltan Kodály: Quartet #2, op. 10 (Bennington)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet op. 20 (Bennington)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Quartet op. 16 (American Academy of Neurology, Boston, Massachusetts)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quintet for piano and winds op. 16 (BioScience Review, Hunt Valley, Maryland)
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio op. 65 (US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
Johannes Brahms: String Quintet op. 88 (Bennington)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Quartet #4 (Bennington)
Gideon Klein: String Trio (1944) (Bennington)
Pierre Jalbert: Elegy for string quintet (premiere, 2010)(Bennington)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet #4 (Bennington)
Bohuslav Martinu: Serenade for two clarinets in C, violin, viola, and cello (Bennington)
Bohuslav Martinu: Trio (1944) for flute, viola, and piano (American Academy of Neurology, San Francisco, California)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Serenade for flute, violin, and viola, op. 25 (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet, op. 20 (Bennington)
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango for string quartet (Classical Revolution DC, Alexandria, Virginia)
George Gershwin: Lullaby for string quartet (Classical Revolution DC, Alexandria, Virginia)
Jonathan Newmark: String Trio (1997)(Accent11 Festival, University of Cincinnati)
Jean Francaix: Quartet for English Horn and Strings (Bennington)
Benjamin Britten: Quartet #2 op. 36 (Bennington)
Bernhard Heiden: Serenade (bassoon, violin, viola, cello)(Bennington)
Benjamin Britten: Quartet #3 op. 94 (Bennington)
Gregory Rowland Evans: String Trio #1 (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio) (premiere)
Max Reger: Serenade op. 141a for flute, violin, and viola (Bennington)
Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet (Bennington)
Erwin Schulhoff: Quartet #1 (1924) (Bennington)
Selvester Zhou: “Wild China” Suite (2018) (Bennington)
Dmitry Shostakovich: Quartet #9, op. 117 (Bennington)
Ian Rashkin: Elegy – Wood Moths (Baltimore Composers Forum, recording)
Steven Schwarz: Variations on “In the Garden” (2021) (New Music DC, George Washington University, Washington DC)(Friday Morning Music Club, Washington DC)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio op. 1 #3 (Colgate Chamber Music Conference)
Paul Hindemith: Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1938) (Friday Morning Music Club)
Conducting
Study with Orien Dalley at National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, 1968, with Prof. David R. Harman at the University of Louisville, 1980’s, and with Prof. Mark Gibson at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, at the Accent11 Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011.
Have conducted various groups at the Bennington chamber music conference over the years, including a full performance of the Mozart Requiem, many readings of the Janacek Mladi sextet; Hanns Eisler’s Nonet #1; Richard Strauss Serenade; Johannes Brahms Serenade #2 op. 16; many Bach Brandenburg concerti.
Guest conductor, 2001, Independence Sinfonia of Philadelphia, Abington, Pennsylvania: Bartók Rumanian Folk Dances, Bach Orchestral Suite #2, and Brahms Serenade #1 op. 11.
Other
Completed figured bass realization for a Bach aria whose Urtext contains only a bass line (2010)
Orchestra issues: Physician consultant to the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, representing the members of the 40 largest orchestras in the United States by budget, 1985-2000
Music/medicine teaching:
Course director and faculty for a dinner seminar at the American Academy of Neurology annual meetings 2003-2011, and also for two years at the Child Neurology Society annual meeting, on the neurology of famous composers. This was the highestrated of a large number of similar seminars offered by the AAN, the world’s largest neurology meeting. Included performing excerpts of the following on the piano:
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in C, L. 104
Randall Thompson: Suite for piano (1984) (movts. 2 and 5)
Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin: Sonatina #2 (1929) (movt. 1)
Charles Valentin Alkan: Barcarolle, op. 65
Wallingford Riegger: Toccata “Fourths and Fifths”
Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16 (movt. 5)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio for Glass Harmonica K. 617a
Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in B, op. 10
Frederick Delius: Prelude #2 (1923)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude #24 from 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
Created and led a semester seminar on Music and the Brain, School of Music, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1988-89