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Chris Newman

Chris Newman (born 1958 in London) is a composer, painter, author and performance artist who lives in Berlin. He studied music at King's College London (1976-1979) and in 1980 moved to Cologne to study with Mauricio Kagel. At university he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and began translating Mandelstam and Khlebnikov, and in 1979 he started writing his own poetry. Mode has issued Piano Sonatas (Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 10, played by Michael Finnissy) and Ghosts, with Ensemble KNM conducted by Steffen Tast.

Chris Newman (born 1958 in London) is a composer, painter, author and performance artist who lives in Berlin. He studied music at King's College London (1976-1979) and in 1980 moved to Cologne to study with Mauricio Kagel. At university he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and began translating Mandelstam and Khlebnikov, and in 1979 he started writing his own poetry. Mode has issued Piano Sonatas (Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 10, played by Michael Finnissy) and Ghosts, with Ensemble KNM conducted by Steffen Tast.

Ghosts
Four chamber works by Chris Newman, all first recordings, played by Berlin's Ensemble KNM conducted by Steffen Tast, with Newman as vocal soloist in Cologne.
Piano Sonatas
First recordings of four Piano Sonatas by Chris Newman (Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 10, composed 1982-2004), played by Michael Finnissy, a collaborator of the composer for over twenty-five years, in composer-supervised recordings.
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* 2021 stock * The structures of Chris Newman's music are apparently simple, like his music pictures: large, thick dots of notes, but a lot of space in between: "The raw and the cooked" (Roland Barthes). He himself likes to cook well and with pleasur…
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