Gregory Lee Newsome pursues the disciplines of music composition and software development, the latter focussing on computer-assisted composition applications and digital audio, the former on creating interesting music that tempers structure with intuition.
He holds degrees in music composition from Capilano College and the University of British Columbia, and studied privately with Nikolai Korndorf and Kaija Saariaho. He is essentially self-taught as a computer programmer, save for significant early instruction from Keith Hamel.
He has composed music at the request of Ensemble Symposium, Ian Hampton and the Langley Community Music School, Redshift Music Society, Standing Wave, Tiresias, Vancouver New Music Society, and Vancouver Pro Musica, and his music has received performances and broadcasts in North America and Europe.
He is the developer of reSonans, a computer-assisted composition environment for Mac OS X.
He is a previous Coordinator of the Canadian Music Centre's British Columbia Regional Office, past director of the Vancouver New Music Society, and former host of the CiTR radio programme "Are You Serious? Music." He has toured throughout North America as a bassist/vocalist in various pop and rock bands.
Currently, he holds the position of Music Services Manager at the Canadian Music Centre's National Office, where he oversaw the development of Composer Portraits - Influences of Many Musics. He is a director of Victoria's Aventa, a member of the experimental Music Collective, and lives in Toronto with his wife, musicologist Sherry Lee.