Kevin Newton

Kevin Newton is a GRAMMY® winning hornist, chamber musician, composer, and educator. He is the horn player of Imani Winds and is an active freelancer in the greater New York area. While growing up in Virginia, his first music teacher, his mother, instilled in him a love of music-making’s collaborative nature which persists to this day. An advocate for new music, Mr. Newton has premiered solo pieces for horn by Erin Busch and José Manuel Serrano, and will premiere a new horn concerto from Anthony Plog. He has commissioned solo works by Tsuneo Imahori and Jeff Scott. As a chamber and orchestral musician Kevin has participated in premieres of works by Valerie Coleman, Jeff Scott, Paquito D’Rivera, Nathalie Joachim, Unsuk Chin, Joy Guidry, Jessica Meyer, Carlos Simon, Damien Geter, Danny Elfman, Simon Hanes and Saad Hadaad among many others. As a composer, Kevin has written pieces for solo horn and piano, including this publication which fulfilled a commission from the Kayden Music Commissioning Program at the Juilliard School Pre-College.

Learn more about Kevin at kevinnewtonhorn.com.