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Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo Princeton Concert

My old pals, Michael Newman and Laura Oltman – collectively known as the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo – will be in Princeton tonight for a concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church.

The program will feature works by Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz and Manuel de Falla, Brazilian composers Paulo Bellinati and Celso Machado, Pulitzer Prize winner (and Princeton-raised) Paul Moravec, and several pieces created specifically for the duo by Cuban master Leo Brouwer – including, from what I understand, a world premiere.

Nassau Presbyterian Church is located at 61 Nassau Street. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., and admission is free.

The event is part of the Princeton Summer Chamber Concerts series. For more information and a complete schedule, visit princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org.

Brouwer’s “Through the Looking Glass”

PHOTO: Joined by Newman & Oltman in my radio daze

July 6, 2023
Newman & Oltman Premiere Brouwer’s New Work

Here’s another one for your Classic Ross Amico pin-up collection:

At WWFM – The Classical Network with Michael Newman and Laura Oltman, of the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo.

Newman and Oltman dropped by the WWFM studios on Monday to share conversation and music, including a generous live performance – the world broadcast premiere, as a matter of fact – of two movements from Leo Brouwer’s “The Book of Imaginary Beings.” This was music written expressly for them by arguably Cuba’s foremost living composer.

Newman and Oltman will perform the complete work for the first time in concert this weekend, on the final program of this year’s Raritan River Music Festival. The concert will take place on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at Stanton Reformed Church, in Stanton, NJ. For details, look online at raritanrivermusic.org.

Newman and Oltman will then take the piece to New York City for a second performance, at the New York Guitar Seminar, with the composer in attendance, on June 26. You’ll find more information by following the link at N & O’s website, guitarduo.com.

And if you missed it, here’s our interview, complete with in-studio musical teasers:

May 23, 2019
Guitar Duo Concert at TCNJ & Princeton

If you’re in the area and you’d enjoy a musical serenade to go along with your peanut butter and banana sandwich, head on over to The College of New Jersey in Ewing for today’s “brown bag” concert.

Laura Oltman, who has taught guitar at Princeton University for over three decades, will join her husband, Michael Newman, who is new to the TCNJ faculty. Newman & Oltman will perform works for guitar duet by Ferdinando Carulli, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Astor Piazzolla.

In addition, flutist Jayn Rosenfeld will join Oltman for Mauro Giuliani’s Gran Duetto Concertante, Op. 52. The hour-long concert will be held at Mayo Concert Hall in the college’s music building, beginning at 12:30. Bagged lunches are welcome.

Oltman and Rosenfeld will repeat the Giuliani work on Sunday, as part of concert by Richardson Chamber Players, to be held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, beginning at 3. The predominantly wind program will also include works by Mozart and Francis Poulenc. Oltman will preface Poulenc’s Sextet with a late guitar work, the “Sarabande,” from 1960.

Newman also teaches at Mannes College of Music in New York, and Oltman at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo is ensemble-in-residence at Mannes.

Husband and wife will reunite for a Christmas concert at Villa Milagro Vineyards in Finesville, NJ, on Dec. 6 at 6:30 p.m.

To learn more about it – and them – check out my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/classical_music_newman_oltman.html

PHOTO: Newman & Oltman: Zing! go the strings of their art

November 21, 2014

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