凯文·牛顿

凯文·牛顿 is a GRAMMY® winning hornist, chamber musician 和 educator based in Manhattan. He is the horn player of Imani Winds 和 is an active freelancer in the greater New York area. While growing up in Virginia, his first music teacher, 他的母亲, instilled in him a love of music-making’s collaborative nature which persists to this day.

As a guest musician Mr. Newton has performed/recorded with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. 卢克的, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, Alarm Will Sound, Talea Ensemble, Sejong Soloists, Nu Deco Ensemble, Harlem Chamber Players, Gateways Festival Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Tredici Bacci, Gil Evans Project 和 Roomful of Teeth. He has also performed on Broadway as a substitute musician in the pits of 狮子王 和 的奇才. In addition to Imani Winds he is a member of the Metropolitan Horn Authority 和 Tsons of Tsunami.

An advocate for new music, Mr. Newton has premiered solo pieces for horn by Erin Busch 和 José Manuel Serrano 和 will premiere a new horn concerto from Anthony Plog. He has commissioned solo works by Tsuneo Imahori 和 杰夫•斯科特. As a chamber 和 orchestral musician Kevin has participated in premieres of works by Valerie Coleman, 杰夫•斯科特, Nathalie Joachim, 快乐古伯伯, 杰西卡·迈耶, 卡洛斯·西蒙, Damien得到, Simon Hanes 和 Saad Hadaad among many others.

作为一名作曲家, Kevin has written pieces for solo horn 和 piano, most recently fulfilling a commission from the Kayden Music Commissioning Program at the Juilliard School Pre-College with the piece Hill House.

Mr. Newton formerly served as principal horn of the Waynesboro Symphony 和, as an orchestral soloist, has performed works by Gordon Jacob, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 和 Franz Strauss. 作为独奏家, Kevin has also performed original works 和 Justinian Tamusuza’s Okukoowoola Kw’Ekkondeere for solo horn. He will be a featured artist at the 2024 International Horn Symposium 和 was a featured artist at the 2022 Southeast Horn Workshop.

Mr. Newton holds faculty positions at the Curtis Institute of Music 和 in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. He is also on the faculty of the Kendall Betts Horn Camp. Mr. Newton has delivered horn masterclasses at many institutions including Yale University, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Clevel和 Institute of Music 和 Boston Conservatory at Berklee among others. As a member of Imani Winds he has taught chamber masterclasses at colleges across the country.

Mr. Newton is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at SUNY Stony Brook. He holds a Master of Music in orchestral performance from Manhattan School of Music 和 a Bachelor of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University. His primary teachers have been David Jolley, Dr. Patrick Smith 和 Iffet Araniti-Davis.