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Noam Faingold
Noam Faingold‘s music career includes composing, performance, lecturing, curating and conducting/coaching. His music has been praised as “…lyrical…”, “…exhilarating…”, and “…a tour-de-force…” by sources as varied as the New York Times, Anoushka Shankar for the BBC, Downbeat Magazine, Aamulehti (Finland) and others. Noam received his PhD in composition in 2015 from King’s College London on a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Fellowship.
Noam currently serves as Director of the Barthelmes Conservatory, Oklahoma’s advanced music college preparatory program at the bART Center for Music in Tulsa. He directs the composition curriculum and teaches chamber music/new music performance and aural skills at Tulsa Community College and the bART and teaches the history of film music at The University of Tulsa. Noam is also the curator for the OK Electric music festival. As the composer-in-residence at the Midtown School for the Performing Arts in Tulsa he recently directed a composition workshop together with the Tulsa Camerata. Noam’s music can be heard on NYC’s WQXR podcast “Q2,” (“Knife in the Water” for violin and cello duo), on London-based violin duo Mainly Two‘s 2014 album Synergy (“Dark Conscience” for violin duo, Turquoise Coconut Records), and on Burning City Orchestra‘s full length album, exploring chamber music and pop song-writing, featuring guest performances by Nonesuch records pianist/composer Timothy Andres and electric bassist Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Tea Leaf Green, Medeski, Martin and Wood). |
The BCO first received attention from the BBC by placing in the top 20 (out of 2,000 entries from 88 countries) in its “Next Big Thing 2007” competition, and can be heard every summer at theLower East Side Festival for the Arts in NYC. Other radio shows and podcasts that feature Noam’s music and interviews include various NPR affiliates (KWGS and KOSU), London Symphony Orchestra’s Soundhub, KCL Radio at King’s College London, Duke University’s WXDU, and WRIU at the University of Rhode Island.
Noam’s music has been performed by some of today’s great performers, including oboist Rob Botti (New York Philharmonic), violinist Dennis Kim (concertmaster, Buffalo Philharmonic), saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky, and organizations, festival and ensembles all over the world including ProQuartet Chamber Music Society (Paris), Gabriel Prokofiev’s Nonclassical Records (London), Christ Church Sinfonietta (Oxford), Voice of Argentina festival (Mar del Plata), the Tampere Philharmonic‘s chamber music series (Finland), the Jönköping Sinfonietta (Sweden), Cadillac Moon Ensemble (NYC), Juventas New Music (Boston), the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Festival’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, the OK Mozart festival, New Music on the Point Festival (Vermont), the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Tulsa International Mayfest and New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge.
In 2016 he is the commissioned composer for the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association conference, Oklahoma Oboe Day at Oklahoma State University, various events at Congregation B’nai Emunah, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and Boston trio Sound Energy. Other commissions include the International Double Reed Society, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concertmaster Dennis Kim, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, ambient label Unknown Tone Records, NYC’s TRANSIT new music ensemble, Tulsa Symphony principal violist Jeff Cowen, Joe Bongiorno (double bass, The Knights, ex-New York City Opera, Mostly Mozart and American Composer’s Orchestra) and others. Other current and upcoming projects include a double bass concerto for double bassist Kurt Muroki (Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center), a new piano trio for Trio Tulsa, collaborations with rapper Johnny Polygon (LA) and violinist/songwriter Adrianna Mateo (NYC), chamber works for his NY Times acclaimed composer’s collective Circles and Lines, and new songs and performances with his rock orchestra. Besides the JKC Graduate Fellowship, Noam has also held the Edward T. Cone Fellowship (Salzburg Seminar), and an Orchestral Bass fellowship (Atlantic Music Festival). For several summers, he held the Performance Associate Fellowship in Composition (Bowdoin International Music Festival), where his music was performed, he conducted chamber works by living composers and festival students, and performed in the orchestra.
As a lecturer, he has given lectures, masterclasses and presentations around the world through King’s College London, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, New York University, Chamber Music Tulsa’s Morgenstern Trio concert, The Oklahoma Music Theory Roundtable, and many others, especially around the city of Tulsa. As a conductor, Noam recently conducted Steve Mackey’s “Micro Concerto” (Tulsa Camerata), and the world premieres of Elliott Schwartz‘s “Echo Variations: Remembering David” for mixed quartet and tape (Bowdoin Festival), Matias Hancke de la Fuente‘s “Inner Outer Secret” for soprano and string quartet (King’s College London) and Brian Mark’s “We Interrupt this Broadcast” for mixed quartet and electronics (i = u festival). He has also conducted his arrangement of Webern’s notoriously challenging “Five Pieces for String Quartet” Op. 5 with his rock orchestra, as well as works by Ben Kapilow, Noah Meites, Elbert Liu, Eric Merten and his own chamber symphony, also with his rock orchestra. As a double bassist he has been the Principal bassist of the Atlantic Festival Orchestra, guest principal bassist of London’s Multi-Story Orchestra, London Euphonia Orchestra, I Maestri, London Medical Orchestra, London Youth Opera’s performance of Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride, and the world premiere of Erin Huelskamp’s chamber opera “The Year of the Serpent” with Boston-based new music ensemble Juventas. He has also played and premiered pieces with Nonclassical Records, London’s 12 Ensemble, New York’s One World Symphony, Manhattan Camerata, the Bowdoin Festival Orchestra and Tulsa Signature Symphony.
Noam is fortunate to count many great musical mentors in his life, including Samuel Adler, Kurt Muroki, George Benjamin, Silvina Milstein, Dennis Kim, Ezequiel Viñao, Claude Baker, Reiko Fueting, Joe Bongiorno and Roger Price.
Noam’s music has been performed by some of today’s great performers, including oboist Rob Botti (New York Philharmonic), violinist Dennis Kim (concertmaster, Buffalo Philharmonic), saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky, and organizations, festival and ensembles all over the world including ProQuartet Chamber Music Society (Paris), Gabriel Prokofiev’s Nonclassical Records (London), Christ Church Sinfonietta (Oxford), Voice of Argentina festival (Mar del Plata), the Tampere Philharmonic‘s chamber music series (Finland), the Jönköping Sinfonietta (Sweden), Cadillac Moon Ensemble (NYC), Juventas New Music (Boston), the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Festival’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, the OK Mozart festival, New Music on the Point Festival (Vermont), the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Tulsa International Mayfest and New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge.
In 2016 he is the commissioned composer for the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association conference, Oklahoma Oboe Day at Oklahoma State University, various events at Congregation B’nai Emunah, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and Boston trio Sound Energy. Other commissions include the International Double Reed Society, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concertmaster Dennis Kim, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, ambient label Unknown Tone Records, NYC’s TRANSIT new music ensemble, Tulsa Symphony principal violist Jeff Cowen, Joe Bongiorno (double bass, The Knights, ex-New York City Opera, Mostly Mozart and American Composer’s Orchestra) and others. Other current and upcoming projects include a double bass concerto for double bassist Kurt Muroki (Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center), a new piano trio for Trio Tulsa, collaborations with rapper Johnny Polygon (LA) and violinist/songwriter Adrianna Mateo (NYC), chamber works for his NY Times acclaimed composer’s collective Circles and Lines, and new songs and performances with his rock orchestra. Besides the JKC Graduate Fellowship, Noam has also held the Edward T. Cone Fellowship (Salzburg Seminar), and an Orchestral Bass fellowship (Atlantic Music Festival). For several summers, he held the Performance Associate Fellowship in Composition (Bowdoin International Music Festival), where his music was performed, he conducted chamber works by living composers and festival students, and performed in the orchestra.
As a lecturer, he has given lectures, masterclasses and presentations around the world through King’s College London, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, New York University, Chamber Music Tulsa’s Morgenstern Trio concert, The Oklahoma Music Theory Roundtable, and many others, especially around the city of Tulsa. As a conductor, Noam recently conducted Steve Mackey’s “Micro Concerto” (Tulsa Camerata), and the world premieres of Elliott Schwartz‘s “Echo Variations: Remembering David” for mixed quartet and tape (Bowdoin Festival), Matias Hancke de la Fuente‘s “Inner Outer Secret” for soprano and string quartet (King’s College London) and Brian Mark’s “We Interrupt this Broadcast” for mixed quartet and electronics (i = u festival). He has also conducted his arrangement of Webern’s notoriously challenging “Five Pieces for String Quartet” Op. 5 with his rock orchestra, as well as works by Ben Kapilow, Noah Meites, Elbert Liu, Eric Merten and his own chamber symphony, also with his rock orchestra. As a double bassist he has been the Principal bassist of the Atlantic Festival Orchestra, guest principal bassist of London’s Multi-Story Orchestra, London Euphonia Orchestra, I Maestri, London Medical Orchestra, London Youth Opera’s performance of Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride, and the world premiere of Erin Huelskamp’s chamber opera “The Year of the Serpent” with Boston-based new music ensemble Juventas. He has also played and premiered pieces with Nonclassical Records, London’s 12 Ensemble, New York’s One World Symphony, Manhattan Camerata, the Bowdoin Festival Orchestra and Tulsa Signature Symphony.
Noam is fortunate to count many great musical mentors in his life, including Samuel Adler, Kurt Muroki, George Benjamin, Silvina Milstein, Dennis Kim, Ezequiel Viñao, Claude Baker, Reiko Fueting, Joe Bongiorno and Roger Price.