BEN NEWMAN

Raised in a musical family with strong ties to the Armenian, Deaf and Jewish communities of metro Detroit, Ben Newman is a seasoned performing arts executive with experience in artist management, consulting, fundraising, marketing, and production. He recently served as Executive Producer for Song of The Ambassadors, a neuroscience based sound healing opera which debuted at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in October 2022 and received an excerpt presentation in April 2023 at TED 2023: Possibility. Ben also served as General Manager for singer, creator and Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of The Year, Davóne Tines, during which he produced Strange Fruit for Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope Festival, VIGIL Screening & Conversation and OpenProcess an immersive spatial audio performance, both at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. 

During his career Ben has collaborated with many notable artists including Teddy Abrams, Refik Anadol, Matthew Aucoin, Mark Campbell, George Condo, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Helga Davis, Jennifer Koh, Missy Mazzoli, K Allado-McDowell, Justin Peck, Patricia Racette, Wayne Shorter, Carlos Simon, Esperanza Spalding, Dalia Stasevska, and Royce Vavrek at some of the world’s most renowned performance venues including The Barbican, The Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Academy of Music, and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall REDCAT Theater. 

Ben holds as a Masters in Creative Leadership in addition to degrees in French, and Violin Performance. He pursued further studies in Classical Voice, French and German at the Institut de Touraine in Tours, France and the Katholische Hochschüle Gemeinde in Würzberg, Germany, after which he returned to the United States and earned an Introductory Sommelier Certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers.