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BIODescribed by Wynton Marsalis as "The High Priest of Bach", and by Time Magazine as "The High Priest of the Harpsichord," Newman continues his 50 year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist and Bach specialist.

His prodigious recording output includes more than 170 CDs on such labels as CBS, SONY, Deutsche Grammaphon, and Vox Masterworks. In 1989, Stereo Review voted his original instrument recording of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto as "Record of the Year". His collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on Sony's "In Gabriel's Garden" was the best selling classical CD in 1997.

As keyboardist, he has performed more than sixty times at Lincoln Center in New York, and has collaborated with many of the greats of music: Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, John Nelson, Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Levine, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seji Osawa, and Leonard Bernstein.

As conductor, he has worked with the greats of chamber music orchestras: St. Paul Chamber, LA Chamber, Budapest Chamber, Scottish Chamber, and the 92nd St. Y Chamber Orchestras. Larger symphonic groups include: Seattle (over 40 appearances), Los Angeles, San Diego, Calgary, Denver, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras.

No less prodigious a composer, his works have been heard in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, New York, and London. His output includes 4 symphonies, 4 concerti, 3 large choral works, 2 operas: Nicole, and Massacre (in collaboration with Charles Flowers), 3 CDs of piano music, and a large assortment of chamber, organ and guitar works. Complete works are published by Ellis Press. Newman has received 30 consecutive composer's awards from ASCAP.

Newman is music director of "Bach Works," New York's all Bach association, and Bedford Chamber Concerts; is on the Visiting Committee for the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and on the board of the Musical Quarterly Magazine. As a person committed to outreach, he was a volunteer for Stamford Hospital, a member of Hospice International from 1995 to 2004. Newman is music director of St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Bedford NY.

Newman is a Yamaha Artist, and a proud alumnus of Young Concert Artists.

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CRITICAL ACCLAIMTIME MAGAZINE"The High Priest of the Harpsichord."

WYNTON MARSALIS"The High Priest of Bach."

GAZETA KRAKOWKOSKA"I have never heard such a monumental and ravishing performance of Bach's great Passacaglia."

STEREO REVIEW"Magnificent. Simply an incomparably fine disc. Newman plays the very devil out of these sonatas. Run don't walk to buy this."

WASHINGTON POST"He amazed us throughout with his economy of gesture and per fect understanding of classical style. He has a genius for improvising in a manner both spontaneous and digitally immaculate."

EDMONTON JOURNAL, CANADA" N e w m a n ' s p e r f o r m a n c e s w e r e outstanding, well paced and intelligent."

SEATTLE TIMES"Newman, much-recorded, consistently inventive as a harpsichordist and capable of the most dazzling cadenzas (notably, of course, in the Fifth Brandenburg), kept the tempos brisk."

ALTE MUSIK ACTUEL"These Bach performances can only be described as incredible. What makes this recording so interesting is that it is so p a s s i o n a t e l y g r i p p i n g . T h e s e performances are always sparkling, inspiring, musical, and never boring."

WASHINGTON POST"Newman is an excellent pianist. He reminds me of Glenn Gould in his combination of intense intelligence and dazzling technique."

DIGITAL AUDIO"Newman's performance of Bach's organ works is a revelation. Newman never conquers Bach, but interprets him in the most tasteful and magnificent way possible."

NEW YORK TIMES"Newman's flair for the theatrical and propulsive is always exciting. His ornamentation is completely fluid and unmannered. His pedal playing in the Toccata in F was spectacular."

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE"Newman has recaptured the excitement that made his first recordings so memorable."

DALLAS MORNING NEWS"These performances offer continuous new excitement to those who thought that they had exhausted the pleasures of Bach's most famous works. What makes the recording so novel is Newman's app roach to o rnamen ta t i on and improvisation."

CHICAGO SUN TIMES" N e w m a n a p p r o a c h e d F r a n c k ' s registrational scenario, blending organ sounds with acute skill. He projects energy and insight. Everything he does captures the imagination."

WASHINGTON POST"Newman is one of the great keyboard players of our time. He is the 'only' organist I can listen to!"

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NEW YORK TIMES" N e w m a n a p p r o a c h e d F r a n c k ' s registrational contrasts with virtuosic fluidity, drawing on a wide timbrel palette. Franck's music benefited by robust performances of an almost cinematic variety and breadth."

WASHINGTON POST"It was a midnight Mass of the brightest colors, a celebration of music itself. Newman played Bach on the Kennedy Hall Concert Organ until midnight. Over 1000 people stood and cheered."

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE"Newman's new recordings of the Goldberg has dazzling finger work, and bold ideas about ornamentation and rhythmic rhetoric. There is an air of total conviction. Newman's new version is likely to remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future."

BILBAO DAILY, SPAIN"Newman was completely compelling and brilliant is his performances of the Brandenburgs with the Bilbao Orchestra."

HI FIDELITY MAGAZINE"With Anthony Newman, we have to invent a whole new category in which to place Bach performances, so fresh and original are his ideas, that the result is basically unlike any other performance. Coupled with his youthful impetuosity is a brilliant and analytical mind that is able to project more of the essence of Bach's music than any other performer I know.”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS"These performances offer continual new insights to those who thought they had exhausted the pleasures of these most famous of all Bach's works…so novel and exciting is Newman's approach to ornamentation and improvisation."

NEW YORK TIMES"Newman had his forces on edge, their nerves alive. Textures were light, rhythms crisp, tempi fast. But they were always energized and intensely focused.”

BOSTON GLOBE, BY MICHAEL STEINBERG"Newman is full of ideas, and his performances are characteristically individual confrontations with the music, owing nothing to lazy habit or the tyranny of received ideas. He is remarkably concerned about clarity, about sheer intelligibility. Newman is worth going to hear any time."

THE WASHINGTON POST"Newman’s e rud i t ion ( in spoken introductions) and fastidious digital clarity have marked his performances for decades, and they were on full display here. His solo offering, the Bach 'Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,' was the concert’s high point, drawing out every possible shade of expression from the instrument through subtle timing and imaginative register changes."

STEREO REVIEW"One has only to compare the intimacy of Liszt's Ave Maria with the driving force of the Widor movements to appreciate Newman's combination of technical ability and musicianship. In the Reubke sonata, moreover, and especially in the Liszt Fantasia and Fugue, he demonstrates his understanding of large musical structures and keen sense of pacing appropriate registration. His performance here is enhanced by a recording that beautifully captures the sound of the Trinity Church instrument."

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