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GEORGE NEWSON (1932 - ) 'George Newson is an artist of considerable talent and is certainly to be placed amongst Britain's foremost contemporary composers.' (Pierre Boulez, Paris, February 1983) Born in London in 1932, as a child George Newson taught himself to read music and to play the piano. At 14 years old he was awarded a scholarship to the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music in London. On a second scholarship nine years later he began the study of composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Alan Bush and Howard Ferguson. At Dartington and Darmstadt during the late 50's and early 60's he came into contact with the Americans Carter and Cage and studied with the Italians Berio, Maderna and Nono. In 1967 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research electronic music in the U.S. He worked principally with Robert Moog in Trumansburg and at the University of Urbana, Illinois where he made his first tape composition. The success of his research brought invitations from Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig to work in the studios of the RAI in Milan during 1968 and the University of Utrecht in 1969. Other major awards included an Arts Council of Great Britain grant in 1965 and 1988, British Council tours of Hungary/Romania in 1977 and Bulgaria in 1991, research fellowship at Glasgow University, and he was lecturer in electronic music at Goldsmiths' College, London, and composer-in-residence at Queen's University Belfast. His commissions, many of which are represented in this catalogue, have been for the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, and other prestigious groups, as well as for the Proms and the BBC. Newson's compositions have been extensively played in Great Britain, the USA and continental Europe. SOME
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