| Noah
began piano lessons while in kindergarten, but “did not discover
jazz” until the fourth grade when he heard a local student
all-star band perform Ellington. Now 15 he plays jazz piano in a
combo he founded, performing frequently in Central New York. The
band has had three repeat invitations to the Syracuse Jazz Festival.
Noah also runs a weekly Friday night jam session at a local club
with fellow musicians and friends. He has received 4 Down Beat Student
Jazz Awards and other awards include an IAJE scholarship and an “Outstanding
Musicianship Award at the national Berklee High School Jazz Competition.
Noah was accepted as one of three pianists nationally to attend the
Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in 2005. Noah donates his time playing
at benefits and fundraisers such as a Katrina benefit and fundraisers
for his school’s music department. He will be sophomore this
fall at Manlius Pebble High School in DeWitt, New York. In addition
to taking home information and experience to work on and think about
in order to improve his playing, another of his goals in attending
the Vail Jazz Workshop is to spread enthusiasm for jazz among his
peers. |
