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University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2007-present.
Currently pursuing D.M.A. in Composition. Private study with Paul Nauert and Hi Kyung Kim.
Porter College Graduate Arts Research Grant, 2009
UCSC Music Department Discretionary Funds Award, 2009
UC Regents’ Fellowship, 2007-2008

Brown University, Providence, RI 2001-2005.
B.A. with honors in English literature and Africana Studies. Private study with Gerald “Shep”
Shapiro (composition) and Edward Tomassi (improvisation).
Weston Prize for Instrumental Performance (trumpet), 2005

Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood, Dammarie-les-Lys, France 2003-2004.
Performance certificate in jazz trumpet. Private study with Jean Gobinet and Claude Egéa.

Master classes and additional private study with John Appleton, Chinary Ung, Olly Wilson,
Karlton E. Hester, David Evan Jones, Peter Elsea, Lei Liang, Daniel Goode, Mark Turner, Kurt
Elling, Daniel Yvinek, Orlando Poleo.

BMI Student Composer Award 2009 Winner for Bioskop

ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award 2009 Finalist for Here and There

April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festival 2009 official selection for Bioskop; 2008 official selection for A Gleaming, May Rain.

Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium 2009 selected composer/performer

60×60 Project (Pacific Rim Mix) 2008 official selection for Hiver/Printemps.

soundSCAPE Festival (Pavia, Italy) 2008 first alternate.

Graduate Teaching Associate UC Santa Cruz, 2007-present.
Courses taught: Introduction to Music Theory Sequence, Jazz Harmony, Intro to Jazz, History of Popular Music.

Assistant to the Director, Pacific Rim Music Festival UC Santa Cruz, 2009-present.
Coordinating musicians and composers for the 2010 Pacfic Rim Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz (Hi Kyung Kim, Artistc Director.) Participants will include Chou Wen Chung, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, Del Sol String Quartet, New York New Music Ensemble, and many others.

Professional trumpet performance in California, New York, Paris, New England, and Chicago, 1998-present. Selected performance experience: the David Letterman Show, Lollapalooza Festival, Bowery Ballroom, The Eiffel Tower, AS220 Art space (Providence, RI), Chicago Cultural Center.

Freelance music engraving and sequencing (Sibelius 5, Logic Pro), 2005-present. Clients: Chinary Ung (UC San Diego), The Los Angeles Master Chorale, Manhattan School of Music.

Bioskop (2009) for violin, cello, clarinet, piano, and percussion, 9ʼ
premiere: April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festival (AiSC), April 3rd, 2009,
Phil Collins, conductor – Rebecca Jackson, violin – Judy Roberts, cello – Michael McGushin, piano – Jim Kassis, percussion.

Sonate (2009) for viola solo [3 movements], 14ʼ
premiere: ʻNew Music By Noah Gideon Meitesʼ (Masterʼs level recital), May 3rd, 2009, Santa Cruz, CA. Linnea Jeanne Powell, viola.

Here and There (2008-09) for amplified SATB quartet, piano x2, percussion x3 (vibraphone,
celesta, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel), electric guitar x2, and electric bass, 15ʼ
premiere(s): AiSC 2008 (1st mvt.), ʻNew Music By Noah Gideon Meitesʼ (2nd mvt.). Sara Hancock, conductor.

The Lake in the Ocean (2009) for unaccompanied SATB choral ensemble, 4ʼ
for select members of the UCSC Chamber Singers
premiere: ʻNew Music By Noah Gideon Meites,ʼ May 3rd, 2009, Santa Cruz, CA.

Sanjo Blue (2009) for two-channel stereo fixed media with live trumpet improvisation, 7ʼ
premiere: UCSC World Music Composers Concert, March 18, 2009, Santa Cruz, CA. Noah Meites, trumpet.

Three Chorales (2008) for string quartet, 6ʼ
premiere: February 2008 at Nexus of Noise II, Santa Cruz, CA. Emma Heffernan and Adrian Delmer, violins – Linnea Powell, viola – Sam Araya, cello)

Wave Dream (2008) for two-channel stereo fixed media, 6ʼ30”
Premiere: May 2008 at “Playing Around With Electronics” (UCSC Electronic Music Studios Showcase), Santa Cruz, CA

“As a composer I try to create works that reflect the diversity of my influences: African American traditions (jazz, gospel, funk/soul, etc.), “classical” music (particularly Bach and Stravinsky), post-war American minimalism, electronic dance music, and a range of “world” music (Balinese Gamelan, Afro-Beat, Korean Pansori and others). With each new piece, I hope to learn something new and in the process advance my artistic development. Ultimately, my goal is to make creative music which is personal, honest, artistically rigorous, and of some value to those who hear it.”