Background
Newman was born in Albany New York in 1977, to Australian parents.
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Clancy Newman
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Newman went on to attend the Columbia-Juilliard combined program, receiving a Bachelor in English from Columbia and a Masters in Music from Juilliard.
Achievements
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In 2001 he won first place in the International Naumburg Competition, and in 2004 he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. At six he began taking cello lessons, and at 12 he received his first significant public recognition when he won a gold medal at the Dandenong Festival in Australia, open to ages twenty-four and under. In 2001, Newman won first place in the International Naumburg Competition, and as a result he played a recital in Alice Tully Hall.
Membership
Clancy Newman has attended the Marlboro Music Festival and has been a member of the Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center. He is currently a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman trio (with pianist Yael Weiss and violinist Mark Kaplan).
