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George Newson was born on 27 July, 1932, is an English composer and pianist. Discover George Newson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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1932

George Newson (born 27 July 1932) is an English composer and pianist who made important contributions to British electronic and avant garde music during the 1960s and 1970s and has subsequently composed large and small-scale works in many musical forms and styles, from songs and chamber music to choral works and opera.

As a photographer, Newson has taken portraits of many of his composer contemporaries.

Born in Shadwell, East London, Newson began studying piano at the age of 14 when he won a scholarship to the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music.

He started to play in modern jazz bands and to compose, while continuing his studies part time at Morley College with Peter Racine Fricker and Iain Hamilton.

1950

In post-graduate studies at Dartington and Darmstadt in the late 1950s he came into contact with more radical figures, such as Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono.

1951

His first publicly performed work was the Octet for wind of 1951, which shows the influence of the modern jazz bands the composer was playing with at the time.

1955

In 1955, he won a further scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music under Alan Bush and Howard Ferguson, where he also made contact with contemporaries such as Harrison Birtwistle and Hugh Wood.

1959

From 1959 he worked as a music teacher at Twickenham Technical College and Peckham Manor School.

1960

Electronic compositions followed in the 1960s, first with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where he worked with Delia Derbyshire and produced the music for an experimental drama, The Man Who Collected Sounds, with radio producer Douglas Cleverdon.

Derbyshire became a lifelong friend.

Newson's abstract electronic works of the 1960s evolved towards an avant-garde, post-modern style, incorporating radical collage and theatrical elements, although the basis of his music is often tonal, melodic and lyrical.

1967

In 1967 he embarked on a three-month journey across the US, stopping to work at various music studios, including Trumansburg, New York with Robert Moog and the University of Urbana.

He also met John Cage during the trip.

Back in the UK he produced his tape composition Silent Spring, inspired by Rachel Carson's book and using birdsong recorded at London Zoo.

1968

It was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Redcliffe Concert on 15th January 1968 - one of the earliest concerts of electronic music by British composers.

Other electronic pieces from this period include Canto II for clarinet and tape at RAI, Milan and Genus II at the University of Utrecht.

Using a collage of diverse vocal, textual, dramatic and political elements, the piece shows the influence of Berio's Sinfonia of 1968.

1970

During the 1970s Newson was appointed Cramb Research Fellow at Glasgow University and Composer-in-Residence at Queen’s University, Belfast.

1971

In 1971 came his highest profile commission, by the BBC's William Glock.

The staged oratorio Arena was written for the Proms, performed in the Roundhouse and conducted by Pierre Boulez, with Cleo Laine as soloist and The King's Singers.

1972

Another BBC commission followed in 1972: Praise to the Air for chorus and instrumental ensemble, setting poetry by George MacBeth.

1984

In 1984 he was invited by Boulez to work at IRCAM in Paris.

1989

The Ensemble intercontemporain, commissioned him to compose I Will Encircle the Sun (Aphelion/Perihelion), which they performed in 1989.

Newson has continued to compose.

1994

His more recent work includes the one act opera Mrs Fraser’s Frenzy, written for the Canterbury and Cheltenham Festivals in 1994, a percussion concerto Both Arms for Evelyn Glennie in 2002, and the piano trio Cantiga (2004), performed at the Rye Festival.

He lives in the village of Stone in Oxney in Kent, near the border of East Sussex.

There are few commercial recordings of his music but some excepts are available on SoundCloud.

Newson is also known for his photography, particularly for his portraits of composers.

There are two self-portraits at the National Gallery in London, and more than 50 others, including portraits of David Bedford, Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Hans Keller, Nicholas Maw, Andrzej Panufnik and Priaulx Rainier.

He is also an amateur ornithologist, something celebrated in Michael Longley's poem Stone-in-Oxney, which is dedicated to Newson.

Longley's poem 'Nightingale' was written in memory of the composer's wife, June.

(see also: List of works, British Music Collection)