# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-newman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:12:19.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-newman"
name: "Maria Newman"
slug: "maria-newman"
description: "Maria Louise Newman is an American composer of classical music, as well as a violinist and pianist. She is the youngest child of Alfred Newman, a prominent Hollywood film composer. Maria holds the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu, California. She is also a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music."
tagline: "American composer of classical music, violist and pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Newman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.31
  momentum:             3.237885462555066
  historical:           6.670776
  currentAttention:     17.98825256975037
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628190/"
    handle:    "nm0628190"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.malibufriendsofmusic.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/420891"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ماريا نيومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ماريا نيومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Newman"
    title: "Maria Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "ماریا نیومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ماریا نیومین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1ccdfdc2-a49b-482c-9932-e6b5ec2fc616"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16194721"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1313191"
    title: "Maria Newman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump