Born and raised in the city of Chicago, Noah Meites is a composer active in a variety of mediums including chamber, orchestral, and electronic music. His work has been recognized nationally by BMI (Student Composer Award Winner, 2009), SCI/ASCAP (Commissioning Contest Regional Winner, 2010), the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Composer Fellow, 2011) and has received performances in South Korea, Japan, Guatemala, and throughout the United States. Noah has been a featured composer at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (where his work was showcased at the Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music), the Pacific Rim Music Festival (California), Seoul National University’s NONG Festival, the April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, the University of Michigan, the University of California Los Angeles, and the Festival de Musica Antigua (Guatemala). He is currently finishing work on his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Composition at the University of California Santa Cruz where he studies primarily with Paul Nauert and Hi Kyung Kim. In addition to his work as a composer, Noah is also active as a performing trumpet player and has appeared on the David Letterman Show, the Lollapalooza Festival, and a variety of renowned performance venues ranging from the Bowery Ballroom in New York to Paris’s Eiffel Tower.
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