Noah Meites

Born and raised in the city of Chicago, NOAH MEITES (b. 1982) writes dramatic, rhythmically-charged music that draws upon his wide-ranging interests in literature, visual art, and the natural world. Noah’s music has been recognized nationally by BMI, NewMusic USA, SCI/ASCAP and has been featured at the LAPhil’s Noon to Midnight Festival, June in Buffalo, the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, the DiMenna Center, Tuesdays@Monk Space, the Carlsbad Music Festival, the Pacific Rim Music Festival, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague’s Spring Festival. His past residencies include the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, and the Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Noah’s current and recent commissions include works for Aperture Duo, Maggie Hasspacher, Arkora, and Brightwork New Music.

Noah’s major teachers include Louis Andriessen (with whom he worked closely during a year of intensive postdoctoral study), Diderik Wagenaar and Martijn Padding (the Royal Conservatory of The Hague), and Paul Nauert, Hi Kyung Kim, and David Cope (the University of California Santa Cruz).

Noah resides in Los Angeles where he serves on the Music Theory faculties of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Colburn Conservatory of Music.