As a conductor whose work has been praised as “superb” (The New York Times), “well-prepared and joyful” (Detroit Free Press), “excellent,” and “fluent and fresh” (Opera News), Noah Horn serves as Music Director of Cantata Singers, a Boston-based choir and orchestra that is “one of the city’s most treasured ensembles.” (The Boston Globe) His performances with Cantata Singers have displayed “masterful virtuosity and expressivity” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), and were “well prepared and fervently delivered.” (Boston Classical Review)

 

Noah is Artistic Director of Audivi, a Detroit-based professional vocal ensemble, which he founded in 2013. Audivi has appeared as a featured ensemble at the ACDA Central, North Central, and Michigan conventions, the AGO New England convention, and gave the Detroit-area historical-performance premieres of Bach’s Mass in B minor and Monteverdi’s Vespers. The ensemble’s first album, The Stolen Child, was listed as the third-best classical album of 2017 by textura, who noted that it was “exceptional; performed with exquisite grace.” Audivi also serves as the professional symphony chorus for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. As the DSO chorus master, Noah has prepared numerous choirs for music directors Leonard Slatkin and Jader Bignamini since 2015. Audivi’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 was “triumphant” (Detroit Free Press), featuring a “rich tapestry of voices resounding.” (Bachtrack)

 

Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Noah co-founded and performs with Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble, a group that celebrates racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Kaleidoscope has performed across North America, including headliner appearances at Podium (Canada’s national choral conference) and ACDA’s Southern Regional Convention. The ensemble presents “a rich mix of possibilities” (Cleveland Classical), and its performances and educational outreach efforts are “inspiring.” (The Miscellany News) Focused on the context around music-making, Kaleidoscope encourages musicians to bring their whole selves to the stage; according to the Yale Daily News, “their musicianship was fantastic, but their storytelling was just as good, if not better.”

 

A passionate educator, Noah has taught at numerous colleges and universities, most recently on the faculty of Harvard University as conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. He has been the director of orchestral activities at Wesleyan University; director of choral activities at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Williams College, Amherst College, Western Michigan University, and Wayne State University; and conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum, with some of these positions on an interim basis. He has also taught in the music departments of the University of Michigan and Hampshire College as a collaborative pianist and theorist. Other areas of collegiate teaching have included conducting, voice, choral literature, composition, music history, and a comprehensive music theory and ear training curriculum.

 

As a tenor, Noah has sung with professional choirs and orchestras across the world, including four which have won GRAMMY or Gramophone Awards. A Carnegie Hall concert in which he sang one-on-a-part with the Tallis Scholars was “magnificent...simply beautiful.” (The New York Times) Another Carnegie Hall appearance was a “powerful performance” and “exciting...beautifully sung.” (The New York Times) Noah was featured on MLB.com when he sang the national anthem at the Detroit Tigers Opening Day ceremony after Aretha Franklin was unable to perform. He also sang for Gordie Howe’s memorial service in Detroit with Wayne Gretzky and other NHL players in attendance. After a viral choral-orchestral video which had three million views and reached YouTube’s homepage, his group 3Penny was invited to perform on the TODAY Show. This performance was followed by an invitation to compete on America’s Got Talent, where the ensemble was watched by 54 million viewers over several episodes, and advanced to the quarterfinals in Radio City Music Hall. 3Penny was “wonderfully uplifting” (Howard Stern) and “took [the music] to the moon and back.” (Mel B)

 

Noah has appeared in numerous commercial recordings, including five albums released on Naxos Records. An album on which he conducted Etherea Vocal Ensemble reached #5 on the iTunes Classical chart and #14 on Billboard’s Traditional Classical chart, and was “sublime” (Times Union) and “gorgeous.” (Opera News) He has conducted over two thousand choral and orchestral works, and commissioned and premiered approximately one hundred pieces of new music by composers from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. He has worked with ensembles in fifteen countries, and has served on the boards of ten nonprofit organizations.

 

Noah holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting and a Master of Music in organ performance from Yale University. He has performed as an organ soloist in twenty states, Canada, Germany, and the Philippines. He won the S. Lewis Elmer Award and the AAGO Prize from the American Guild of Organists in a national competition. Noah has served as music director at several churches, and currently works in that capacity at Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst, MA. He is additionally active as a pianist, harpsichordist, trumpet player, and composer, and played solo jazz trumpet for President Bill Clinton during his time in office. Outside of music, he was profiled in The New York Times (2022) and in Nerds per Minute (2021) by Sean Wrona for his competitive typing achievements.