Work list: Jonathan Newmark, composer [Those marked with asterisk * appear on Trios and Duos, a CD of chamber music released in 2009 by Music Unlimited.] Cumberland Falls Trail, for English horn, bass clarinet, and piano. 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; and at Howard University, Washington, DC. 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), and View from the Edge series, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2015. Published by Brass Arts Unlimited, Inc., Lutherville, Maryland, 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; and College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011. 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. 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. 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, and by The Georgetown Quintet, Fairfax Old Town Hall, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2017. 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, and at Midwest Composers Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015. Published by Brass Arts Unlimited, Lutherville, Maryland, 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. 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. 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. 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 performance, Friday Morning Music Club, Washington, DC, 2017. 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. Winner, Juventas New Music Ensemble score call, 2017. 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. 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. Published, TrevCo Music Publishing, Tallevast, Florida, 2016. 3 min Better on Slickrock for flute and guitar, 2015. Read by Duo Damiana (Molly Barth and Dieter Hennings), College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2015. 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. 4 min Duo for Allen Otte for vibraphone and marimba, 2015. 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. 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. 6 min