Maria Newman Composer-in-Residence Violinist, Violist and Pianist
American composer and violinist, Maria Newman, was born in 1962 into one of the most famous and influential musical families in Hollywood. The youngest daughter of nine-time Academy Award-winning film composer, Alfred Newman (1900-1970), who was also the celebrated conductor of the original Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Maria Newman has been highly honored as a concert composer in her own right, continuing to garner recognition from performers, audiences and critics alike. Educated at the prestigious Eastman School of Music and Yale University, Maria Newman has been presented with numerous awards and commissions from venerable organizations and ensembles around the globe for her critically acclaimed, scintillating and varied library of chamber music, vocal and choral music, music for chamber orchestra, concerti, symphonic music and highly discussed music for restored vintage silent film. She has served as Composer-in-Residence for many ensembles and institutions nationally. A bold and versatile performer, Newman’s compositions and performances of both her own highly regarded works and works of the great masters, are consistently programmed in concert halls and heard regularly on radio broadcasts worldwide. NPR’s Jim Svejda hails Newman as, “…hugely musical, bewitching, charming…one of the most distinguished composers of her generation.”
In her role as violinist and violist, Maria Newman has concertized around the world as a soloist, recitalist, and as a member of the Malibu Coast String Quartet and the Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble. As a concert soloist, Newman has premiered many new works for violin, as well as for viola (including many of her own) in some of the United States’ and Europe’s most celebrated concert halls, and was the critically acclaimed viola soloist for the Grammy Award-winning album, Symphonic Hollywood, in a performance of Miklos Rozsa’s Viola Concerto with the Nuremberg Symphony.
Newman is the mother of five beautiful children (Martha, Isabella, Samuel “Sonny”, Noah and Joaquin), and is happily married to conductor/violist Scott Hosfeld, with whom she frequently collaborates. The Newman-Hosfeld family resides in an organic craftsman structure built around the performance of music and dance. Designed by Eric Lloyd Wright of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright family of architects, Newman and Hosfeld host nearly forty concerts annually in this venue, attracting and presenting many of the world’s most celebrated musicians, architects and speakers.
Scott Hosfeld Conductor and Music Director, Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra Violinist and Violist
Acclaimed conductor and music director of the Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO), Scott Hosfeld is a favorite among his professional colleagues and students. Maestro 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, Maestro 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 exceptionally 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 Pianist
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 Composition Department, "Sunday's Live" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture (MAHMA), as well as the popular Los Angeles based, SPaCE Salon. Highly sought after as an expert in the performance of new music, Prober recorded Morton Lauridsen's "Cuatro Canciones" on the RCM label, receiving 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.
Wendy
Prober has been deeply connected with the music of Maria Newman from
the beginning, presenting the world premiere and many subsequent
performances of Maskil, (Newman’s sonata for solo piano), as well as many additional chamber and orchestral works by
Newman and other acclaimed living composers.
Malibu Artist, Carla Marlenée Bates, is a California native whose talents span the fields of both commercial and fine art. She holds a BFA from California State University, Fullerton. She 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 Malibu.
Also highly respected illustrator, her projects have included books for children, book jacket covers and product design. Bates 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 music 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 member of the Malibu Art Association, Carla has received awards for both pastel and acrylic paintings. Recently her paintings were exhibited as part of a 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 locales as Malibu, Montana, New York, and Paris. Ms. Bates currently serves as Artist-In-Residence for the Montgomery Arts House For Music and Architecture (MAHMA) in Malibu.
Adrianna Fiori Artistic Director and Choreographer, Malibu Coast Chamber Ballet Malibu Coast School of Dance
Adrianna Fiori, Artistic Director and Choreographer of the Malibu Coast Chamber Ballet and the Malibu Coast School of Dance, has an expressivity and motion to her art that is enchanting and absolutely moving to audiences. She was educated at UC Santa Barbara and Loyola Marymount University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance. Fiori is highly trained in the Royal Academy of Dance techniques and styles, and heads the Malibu Coast School of Dance at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu.
Ms. Fiori served as Director of the Malibu Concert Dancers for several successful seasons before coming on board with the Malibu Coast Chamber Ballet (MCCB) in 2007. She has since choreographed four original world premiere ballets to wide audience and critical acclaim, and continues to create new and exciting works for the MCCB, featuring professional dancers, budding soloist and youth.
