Gregory C. Newton

Biography

Mr. Newton is one of New England’s most active musicians, having performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. His performance schedule regularly includes the Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Musica Viva, New Hampshire Symphony, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Granite State Symphony, Symphony New Hampshire, the Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He has also performed with the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra and the Prague Radio Symphony.  Mr. Newton performs regularly in the Boston theater orchestras for many of the Broadway touring companies including the pre Broadway break-in of Tony Award winning The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

In addition to his orchestral duties, Mr. Newton maintains an active chamber music schedule as founding member of the Northwinds Quintet (affiliate with Young Audiences of America, and for many years on the Artist Faculty of the Brevard Music Center. Currently, he is a faculty member of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and Phillips Exeter Academy.

Mr. Newton has been featured soloist with the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society Orchestra, the Radius Ensemble, Symphony New Hampshire, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, the Nashua Chamber Orchestra the Granite State Symphony and can be heard on the BMOP (where he has been involved in several Grammy nominated and award winning recordings) A&M, Gasparo, North Eastern,  Pickwick Masterworks, and New World labels.

Mr. Newton is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Sherman Walt, former principal bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.