With purity and beauty University of Oregon’s graduate student Torrey Newhart has crafted his first professional jazz album.

The new album entitled “Marmara” consists of six original compositions by Newhart as well as an original arrangement of the single Optimistic by English Rock Band Radiohead. The album strives to combine two of Newhart’s interests: art and philosophy. By corresponding a painting to each composition as well as related his correlations with philosophy, Newhart strives to create an experience that is “both complex and approachable for the average listener.”

The inland sea of Marmara, which Newhart visited in high school, also motivated him and soon became the inspiration of the album’s title track.

“It gives me an opportunity to show people what I have been doing,”  Newhart said. ” I have got a lot of community support and this is my way of thanking them, by giving them a final product.”

Newhart began his professional music career his sophomore year of high school, performing at local events including the Be-Bop Biscotti coffee house in Bend, Oregon. It was there he got his first official start performing for live audiences.

Newhart continued his dream of music and is now a masters student in the Jazz Studies program at the University of Oregon studying both composition and arrangement.

He believes that “music has the potential and power to remove people from themselves and take a step back from everyday issues in life, allowing one to reflect on and fully experience the diversity of humanity.”

Newhart was able to embrace these beliefs and present them through his album with the help of fellow musicians Eddie Bond on guitar, Adam Harris on the saxophone, Tony Glausi on the trumpet, Adam Carison on the drums and Sean Peterson on Bass.

“It is cool to be a part of something that is completely original,” Carison said. The two have played music together since before they came to the University of Oregon.

The album — set to release in June 2013 — is an exciting stepping stone in Newhart’s music career and a wonderful representation of the successes that arise from his inspiration.