In 2001, cellist CLANCY NEWMAN won the coveted First Prize of the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg Competition, which presented him in a debut recital at Alice Tully Hall. Clancy is a winner of many competitions and honors, including the 2004 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Astral Artistic Services year 2000 National Auditions, National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists Competition, the Juilliard School Cello Competition, the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition in Brisbane, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition. He has appeared on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts, NPR’s Performance Today and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center. Mr. Newman began playing cello at the age of six, and at twelve, received his first significant public recognition when he won the Gold Medal for Strings at the Dandenong Youth Festival in Australia, competing against instrumentalists twice his age. He developed an interest in composition at an early age, an activity to which he still devotes much of his time and energy.  Mr. Newman attended the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia, the Taos School of Music, the Verbier Academy in Switzerland, the Piatigorsky Seminar, and participated for several seasons in the Marlboro Music Festival. He also frequently tours as a part of the Musicians from Marlboro series. Upon receiving a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, he became one of the first students to complete the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Mr. Newman’s teachers included David Gibson, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro.