Clancy Newman, Cellist
Winner Washington Chapter award 1992
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Awards
After winning the NSAL, Washington Chapter competition, Clancy won the
Anthony R. Stefan Competition (1992), the Ithica College High School Competition
(1992), The National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists Competition (1994),
the Barandiaran Prize (1994), the Juilliard Pre-College Cello Competition
(1995), and the Juilliard Cello Competition (1997).
Clancy Newman, from Albany, NY, began playing the cello at the age of six.
May 2000, he received his Masters degree from The Juilliard School, becoming
one of the first people ever to complete the five year exchange program
between Columbia University and Juilliard, having received his B.A. in
English from Columbia U in 1999.
Born of Australian immigrant parents, Clancy has travelled back to their
home country many times, including an eight-month period when he was twelve
years old. It was during this visit that he received his first significant
public recognition: he won the Gold Medal for Strings at the Dandenong
Yought Festival near Melbourne and he won first prize at the Australian
National Youth Concerto Competition in Brisbane. He also developed his
interest in compostion, an activity to which he still devotes much of his
time and energy.
Since then, Clancy has won many other competitions. In May 1999, he won
the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition giving him two years
of concert engagements all over the United States.
Since April 2000, he has been affiliated with Astral Artistic Services.
Clancy has attended the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia, the New York
Strings Seminar, the Meadowmount School for Strings, the Encore School
for Strings, the Taos School of Music, the Verbier Academy in Switzerland,
the Piatagorsky Seminar, and the Marlboro Music Festival. Clancy's primary
teachers have been David Gibson, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro.
These pages are dedicated to the memory of Suzanne Mullett Smith who
spent years collecting historical information on the former winners of
NSAL scholarships and awards and produced the first three Who's Who directories
of former winners.
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