Baritone David Newman enjoys an active and varied concert career throughout North America. Hailed as “electrifying” by the Washington Post and noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer for his “eloquent, emotional singing,” he has a particular love for Baroque music in general, and Bach in particular. His long association as soloist with the Bach Choir of…

Noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer for his “eloquent, emotional singing,” David Newman has enjoyed long associations with The Four Nations Ensemble, Carmel Bach Festival and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. He performed with Opera Lafayette at Versailles, Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center, a French residency of Medieval music with Aziman, Messiah with Tafelmusik in…

I haven’t written a blog post here in almost two years. Shame on me. It’s not as if I’ve had no news… As mentioned in the previous, ancient, blog post, I did go to the Carmel Bach Festival to sing Jesus in the St. Matthew Passion. I had been an Adams Fellow there in 1995,…

The 2008-2009 season was a busy and turbulent one for me. I took on a second teaching position, which seemed like a wise financial move, while still maintaining a fairly busy performing schedule. It was too much. I am grateful that JMU gave me enough students this year that I could afford to drop the…

We’ve had some rainy weather recently, but the last couple days have been just beautiful. I’ve been enjoying the outdoors and having the windows open while indoors. Taxes are now out of the way, and we’re entering the last week of classes at JMU, so I’m looking forward to a slightly slower pace over the…

I’ve been remiss at keeping this updated, but I’m headed to Philly shortly for another concert with Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. This one will be a first for me in several ways. For one, I’ve never been a participant in a puppet opera before. Secondly, it will be the first time I’ve…

I’m excited about my next performance with Bach Sinfonia, which happens this Saturday, October 20. I’ve performed with this group several times, and I was the bass soloist for their recent Dorian release of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. While that was a rather small role, this concert features me rather prominently in two of my favorite…

At about the same time as I changed this website, I finally followed a dream I’ve had for about a decade of starting a free archive of sheet music on the Internet. Of course, there are quite a few such archives already in existence, but I’ve found none that really serve the needs of the…