MEET NOAH
Noah Marconi was born in the Bronx, NY, and raised in Vermont. From a very early age, he was involved in music, taking piano lessons by the age of five with Deb Tursi at Fox Music Studio (2000-2004) and cello lessons by seven with Steven Olson and the Lake Champlain Waldorf School (2003-2010). He later took cello lessons with John Dunlop, principal cellist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (2011-2019), and piano lessons with Victor Gould (2009-2012). He discovered the sound of film music very early and developed a deep love of John Williams, Howard Shore, Thomas Newman, and Hans Zimmer. From there, he eventually discovered the music of Beethoven and the world of classical music. In high school, Noah began composing and his first orchestral composition, Cataclysmic Lament, won the Vermont Youth Orchestra Composition Competition, receiving its first performance in 2012.
Noah received his first composition lessons from Vermont composer Erik Nielsen from 2012 to 2013 and briefly with Nicolas Scherzinger during a summer at the Kinhaven Music School in 2013. He received formal composition training at The Hartt School in Connecticut, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Composition (graduated ‘18) under the tutelage of Larry Alan Smith, the late David Macbride, Ken Steen, and Robert Carl. In 2017, Noah attended the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy where he met accomplished composers Daron Hagen and Gilda Lyons. He was subsequently invited by Mr. Hagen to enter his private composition studio, working with the composer from 2017 to 2022.
A post-stylist composer of concert, incidental, multi-media, and film music, Noah is comfortable composing for all types of forces — including orchestra, chamber and contemporary ensembles, chorus, band, and electronics.
His large and varied catalog includes incidental music for the Hartt Theater Division’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Subsequently, Here for choreographer Daniella Parisot and Picture Palace for conductor Edward Cumming and the Hartt Orchestra. He has also conducted performances of his music with the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the Burlington Civic Symphony Orchestra. His music is informed by the classical tradition but demonstrates and embraces contemporary trends.
An accomplished cellist, Noah has extensive orchestral and chamber music-playing experience. He was a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association (2006-2013), the Burlington Civic Symphony Orchestra (2012-2014), the University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra (2013-2014), and the Hartt Orchestra (2014-2018), where he has served as principal cellist. Additionally, he has participated in numerous coached chamber ensembles, primarily string quartets, and has been a part of pit orchestras such as On Your Toes, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Addams Family. In college, he was a student of cellist Mihai Tetel (2014-2018). As a cellist, Noah has enjoyed stints at the Vermont All-State Festival (2010-2013), the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (2012), and the New England Music Festival (2012-2013).
In addition to the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy, he has been invited to participate as a composer in the Connecticut Summerfest Contemporary Music Festival (2016), the Atlantic Music Festival (2018), the NYU Film Scoring Workshops (2020), the Rick Baitz/BMI Composing for the Screen Workshop (2020). He was invited as an auditor to the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive (2021) and received a six-week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2019).
Noah Marconi’s commissions have come from the Hartt School, the Lake Champlain Waldorf School, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and the Vermont Music Teachers Association. His honors include receiving the Burton Family Scholarship for Excellence in Composition from the Hartt School. He is a member of ASCAP and The SCL.
