Maria Newman, composer\conductor\violinist\ violist\pianist, was born into one of the most famous and influential musical families in Hollywood. Though she is the youngest daughter of the late 9-time Oscar -winning Film Composer\Conductor, Alfred Newman of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Newman has been highly honored as a concert composer in her own right.
Newman was educated at the prestigious Eastman School of Music and Yale University, and graduated both institutions with high honors. Maria Newman has since become known as a serious composer in the field of concert music and continues to receive acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Newman has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including sixteen consecutive ASCAP Awards, as well as Composition Grants from the California Arts Council, the Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble and the Composer?s Guild, among many others. She was honored with the Debut Award from the Young Musicians Foundation in 2001, and was named Variety?s 1997 Composer of the Year. She has been commissioned by numerous organizations and has developed a large library of original works for chamber ensemble (vocal and instrumental), orchestra, choral, ballet and opera\oratorio. This season features commissions from the New West Symphony, Pacific Serenades, the Angeli Trio, Colburn School for the Performing Art?s Orchestra da Camera, and the Kairos String Quartet. Composer-in-Residence at the Icicle Creek Music Center in Washington for a decade, Newman currently holds that position with the Orchestra da Camera of the prestigious Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Newman has also held residency positions with the Brevard Music Center, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, SongFest, Solisti New York, the Eastern Sierra Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of St. Matthew?s in Los Angeles, Central Washington University, California Institute of Technology, Azusa Pacific University, the Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival and Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble, among others.
Newman has received numerous commissions from the Mary Pickford Foundation to compose original music for newly restored vintage classic films of the silent era. She has also received commissions by Turner Classic Movies (?Mr. Wu? 1929, starring Lon Chaney), and by the Library of Moving Images (?Tom Sawyer? 1917, starring Jack Pickford). These compositions continue to receive live concert performances (with picture), appear on video\DVD format, and are frequently aired on television.
As solo violist, Newman recorded Miklos Rozsa?s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Nuremburg Orchestra for the Grammy Award-winning Symphonic Hollywood CD, and continues to perform concerts nationwide. Newman is the mother of four beautiful children: Martha, a violinist (age 10); Isabella, a ?cellist (age 8); and Sonny, a violinist (age 7) and vocalist Noah (age 2). She is married to conductor/violist Scott Hosfeld.
Scott Hosfeld Conductor, Violin, & Viola
Acclaimed conductor and music director of the Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO), Scott Hosfeld is a favorite among his professional colleagues and students. Hosfeld has been principal conductor of the Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestra, the Kairos Festival Orchestra, the Dorian Festival Orchestra, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestras, the Icicle Symphony Orchestra, the Central Washington University Chamber Orchestra and the Eastern Sierra Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Hosfeld has led concerti for premiere soloists Nathaniel Rosen, Camilla Wicks, Andrew Shulman, Delores Stevens, Steven Doane, Darol Anger, David Perry, Peter Longworth, Hal Ott and Mike Marshall.
As an entrepreneur, Hosfeld was the founding executive and artistic director of the Icicle Creek Music Center (ICMC) in Leavenworth, Washington. Hosfeld’s vision enabled ICMC to grow from an annual summer festival into a year round chamber music center, complete with 15 buildings (including a gorgeous concert hall) on a 9-acre campus. Hosfeld’s decade-long tenure at ICMC made possible that organization’s still flourishing curriculum of intense chamber music and orchestral programs for elite professional and highly qualified student musicians in a unique alpine setting.
In great demand as an educator, Hosfeld has served as Faculty/Artist-in-Residence for the University of Arizona, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Louisiana State University, Central Washington University and California State University at Long Beach, and continues to direct his popular conducting and chamber music clinics across the continent. Further dedicated to the education of highly qualified pre-college musicians in inspirational environs, Scott Hosfeld founded two highly successful and now long-standing youth orchestras in the 1980’s, one in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the other in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
Wendy Prober Piano
Wendy Prober has performed throughout the United States and Canada as a critically acclaimed chamber musician and soloist. She is the founding pianist of the award-winning Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble, and has served as Artist-in-Residence at Loyola Marymount University, the prestigious USC Imposition Department, "Sunday's Live" on KMZT FM, the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture (MAHMA), as well as Tarzana's SPaCE Salon. Prober recently recorded Morton Lauridsen's "Cuatro Canciones" on the RCM label, which received a coveted Grammy nomination. She has served as Faculty-in-Residence for Loyola Marymount, and the University of Judaism, and for two seasons was Executive Director of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, with whom she continues to solo frequently.
Carla Bates Visual Artist
Malibu Artist, Carla Marlenée Bates, is a California native whose talents span the fields of both commercial and fine art. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from California State University in Fullerton. She also studied under the late, Myrna Mckee at the prestigious, California Art Institute. For the past ten years she has worked as Creative Director and Product Designer for Fireship Souvenir Company, based in the Caribbean, as well as for her own Souvenir Company, Zuma Design Inc., based here¬ in California.
Also an illustrator, her illustration projects have included children?s books, book jacket covers and product design. Carla often collaborates on projects with other artists, and has designed logos and CD covers for such artists as drummer, Jack Irons, jazz singer, Nancy Osborne and classical composer, Maria Newman.
Although busy with her commercial artwork and the everyday business of raising her two children with husband Bruce, she still finds time to create fine art. As a past member of the Malibu Art Association, Carla has taken home awards for both her pastel and acrylic paintings. Recently her paintings were exhibited as part of a group show for the Art Institute of Portland Gallery. The exhibit showcased past Disney Artists and was entitled, Beyond The Mouse.
Her reverence for the Pacific coastline has inspired her most recent series of paintings, which depict ocean vistas and the local Malibu surf culture. Her artwork has universal appeal and hangs on the walls of art lovers in such places as Malibu, Montana, New York, and Paris. Ms. Bates currently stands as Artist-In-Residence for The Montgomery Arts House For Music and Architecture (MAHMA) located in Malibu.
Adrianna Fiori Artistic Director & Choreographer
Adrianna Fiori, MCCB director and choreographer, has an expressivity and motion to her art that is enchanting and absolutely moving to audiences. She was educated at UCSB and LMU where she earned her B.A. in Dance and is highly trained in the Royal Academy of Dance techniques and styles. Ms. Fiori served as Director of the Malibu Concert Dancers for several successful seasons before coming on board full time with the MCCB in 2007. She has since choreographed two original world premiere ballets to wide audience acclaim, and continues to create new and exciting works for the MCCB, featuring professional dancers, budding soloist and youth.
