Born and raised in the city of Chicago, Noah Gideon Meites is a composer and trumpet player in the D.M.A. Composition program at the University of California Santa Cruz where his primary teachers are Paul Nauert and Hi Kyung Kim. His compositions have been performed in Japan, South Korea, France, and the United States. Winner of the 2009 BMI Student Composer Award for his chamber work, bioskop, Noah was also a featured composer/performer at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium as well as a finalist for the 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. In his concert music, Noah draws from a diversity of influences—African American traditions (jazz, gospel, funk/soul, etc.), “classical” music (particularly J.S. Bach and Igor Stravinsky), electronic dance music, and a range of “world” music traditions from Korean Sanjo to Afrobeat—with the goal making creative music which is personal, honest, artistically rigorous, and (hopefully) of some value to those who hear it.
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