Michael Noble, DMA, is a pianist, composer, and festival director renowned for his commitment to engaging and inspiring audiences through innovative projects and insightful programming.

Since his debut at the age of six, he has developed an international reputation as a pianist whose performances and initiatives have engrossed audiences throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

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A prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including the Carmel Music Society Competition, Crescendo Music Awards, Chopin International Competition of the 1000 Islands, The Plowman Chamber Music Competition, and the Harold Protsman Competition, Michael has been called “a pianist to remember” and “poetic” by Het Nieuwsblad. His playing has also been hailed as “elegant, stylish, and powerful” (Peninsula Reviews), and as “a pianist with an admirable ability to serve the music at times with the subtlety of a master chamber music player, and also at times to blaze forth with commanding virtuosity and to carry us to dramatic climaxes” (Peninsula Reviews).

Michael has performed in renowned venues, including Weill and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, the Preston Bradley Center in Chicago, Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis), the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, DC, the National Academy for the Performing Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, and the Sunset Center in Carmel, California. Additionally, he is a sought-after guest artist, appearing regularly at festivals including the Gentsche Festspiele (Belgium), the Kwadrofonik Festival (Poland), the Forum de la Création Musicale (Belgium), Musiksommer Schloss Rosenegg (Austria), Thailand International Composition Festival, and the Lake George Music Festival.

Michael also co-founded and directed the Brussels-based Music of Changes festival, which presented adventurous thematically-based programs of new and traditional works. A passionate advocate of new music, he has commissioned works by Claude Ledoux and Jesse Limbacher and is one of the foremost scholars of the music of Frederic Rzewski. Additionally, his upcoming album, “Silver Screen” will feature works by Philip Glass, Max Richter, and Ólafur Arnalds, among other contemporary composers.

Michael has been featured as soloist with the Monterey and Tulsa Symphonies, and the Idyllwild Arts Academy Alumni Orchestra, among others. Additionally, he has worked with the most renowned artists in the field, including Gary Graffman, Claude Frank, John O’Conor, Christopher Elton, Ursula Oppens, Ransom Wilson, Boris Berman, Hung-Kuan Chen, Robert McDonald, and members of the Brentano and Tokyo Quartets.

Michael holds a doctoral and two masters degrees from the Yale School of Music and a BM and BA in English Literature cum laude from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester respectively. In addition, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal Ghent Conservatory, the latter as a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. His principal teachers and mentors include Peter Frankl, Nelita True, Melvin Chen, Daan Vandewalle, and Nicholas Angelich.

Highlights of current and recent seasons include solo and chamber performances throughout Austria, Belgium, and the United States; residencies at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, The University of British Columbia, Mahidol University College of Music (Bangkok), Montclair State University, and Marshall University; a tour of Thailand featuring lectures and performances; and the creation of a new music festival, Conflux, in Washington, DC that will debut in 2024. In September 2023, he released his second album, Ascension, which features his transcriptions of medieval and Renaissance vocal works juxtaposed with music from 1965 to today, including his compositional debut. His first album, American Dissident, features political works by Rzewski and Margaret Bonds.

Michael resides in Washington, DC where he serves as the artistic director of Conflux and as a faculty member at The International School of Music in Bethesda, MD. Previously, he resided in New York City where he was on faculty at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts, and Wetherby-Pembridge School New York.

 

Schedule

march 2024

29feb01marResidency at Virginia TechGuest Professor for Richard Masters' Studio

april 2024

01apr7:00 pm8:30 pmSolo Recital at Christopher Newport UniversityWorks by Beethoven, Berg, Bonds, Janáček, Mompou, and Rzewski

september 2024

09sep(sep 9)5:00 pm15(sep 15)8:00 pmTour of ThailandPerformances and Lectures at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Chulalongkorn University, and Mahidol Universities. Programs TBD.

29sep7:30 pm9:30 pmAndrea’s Salon Concerts, PhiladelphiaSalon concert with works by Ravel

october 2024

15oct12:10 pm1:00 pmSolo Recital on Epiphany Tuesday Concert Series, Washington, D.C.Works by Beethoven, Debussy, Janáček, Rzewski, Glass

18oct6:00 pm7:30 pmRoerich Museum Concerts, NYCWorks by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Janáček, and Glass

 

 

 

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