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Performance |
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Cultural venues and museums |
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Summer 2000: Guggenheim Museum "Worldbeat" series (with Rob Curto)
2000: The 3rd Street Music Settlement concerts (Quartet with Rob Curto)
2000-2002: Bloomfield Harvest Festival (3 successive years)
2001: Queens Libraries performance series
2001: Played cavaquinho with the Julliard Orchestra for the Summergarden Series
of the Museum of Modern Art
2002: The Jewish Museum (duo with Vanderlei Perreira)
2000: Conservatory of Music of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
1999: The Brooklyn Museum of Art "First Saturdays" program
1998: Museum of the City of New York
1997: Museu del Barrio
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College performances and talk/workshops |
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2002: Brooklyn College (duo with violin: music of Bach, Piazzolla and Gnatalli)
2002: Columbia University (duo with classical vocalist: show on Iberian and Iberian-influenced music)
2001: Marymount College (duo with Rob Curto)
2001 and 2000: St. Josephs College, Brooklyn
2001: City College of New York
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With dancers |
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1998: P.S. 122 Dancespace: solo guitar for Brazilian Tap Dance
1997: Fred Darsow Dance Company at The KITCHEN
1987: Bill T. Douglas Dancers with Billy Newman Quartet at Douglas Dunn Performance Space
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Other |
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- Billy has performed solo and with ensemble at numerous New York City clubs and restaurants, including Blue Water Grill, Park Avalon, Club Tatou, China Club, B. Smith's, and many more.
- He is highly sought after for private and corporate events
- He has participated in many performances for the New York City Parks Department and the Brooklyn Arts Council including Central Park, Governors Island, Marine Park, Prospect Park, Coney Island Boardwalk
- He regularly performs for children's shows throughout New York with singer/storyteller Alison DeSalvo (music for children, folksongs from around the world)
- He regularly performs in shows for Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI) throughout the New York City Shelter System, mental hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes
- In 2001 he participated in the Gospel/Jazz Broadway Performance with singers and choir in a musical for Organization to Stop the Violence against Children
- From 1997 to 2000 he had a regular solo guitar gig at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre
- In 1997 he performed frequently at the Internet Café performance space with his Brazilian Jazz Trio
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Composer/Author |
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| Soundtrack to short film by Dwight Smith "Now Run and Tell That" |
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| Author of "Guitar Atlas: Brazil" with 5 original compositions and all original etudes/exercises, published by Alfred Music with international Distribution. In stores since July 2002 |
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| Author of many original compositions performed in shows at Izzy Bar, 92nd Street Y, Brooklyn Museum, 3rd Street Music Settlement, Den of Cin, many more. |
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| A CD of original music is in production. |
