​Jonathan Newmark

Composer Jonathan Newmark, born New York City in 1953, pianist, violist, and conductor, received his MM in composition from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2015.  His teachers have included Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, and Michael Fiday, at CCM, as well as Jonathan Kolm, Gloria Wilson Swisher, and James McVoy.  He has participated at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington, VT since 1981 and worked there with composers including Allen Shawn, Martin Bresnick, Daniel Strong Godfrey, Kurt Rohde, Paul Moravec, Chen Yi, Pierre Jalbert, Jesse Jones, and Ted Hearne.  His works have premiered at the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, Connecticut Summerfest, nief-norf summer festival, International Trombone Festival, artsonglab, and Walden School’s Creative Musicians’ Retreat.  His bass clarinet trio Secret Atop the Bluff won the Juventas New Music score competition at the Boston New Music Festival in 2017.  A CD of four chamber works was released in 2009 on the Music Unlimited label.  His string quartet appears on a 2019 CD by the Altius Quartet; his piano sonata appears on a 2019 CD by British pianist Martin Jones.   His chamber opera Haber’s Law received its workshop premiere at the Operation Opera festival in Spokane, Washington in 2022.  

A 1974 graduate of Harvard College, he earned his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1978.  He is a board-certified neurologist, staff neurologist at the Washington DC VA Medical Center, full professor of neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, retired Colonel, US Army Medical Corps, former Chemical Casualty Care Consultant to the Army Surgeon General, consultant to the National Institutes of Health, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on medical response to chemical warfare and terrorism.  In 2022 he was appointed by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to a second four-year term on the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel of Virginia.   He lives in Burke, Virginia.