Biography

 

Noah Barkan, currently at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has performed around the New England area, Pittsburgh, Italy, and Colorado. In the fall of 2008, Noah Barkan performed the Schumann Quintet with members of the Carnegie Mellon Symphony Orchestra. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Barkan gave concerts for the Brie Foundation charity concerts benefiting childhood cancer research. Noah Barkan has been a soloist with the orchestras of Carnegie Mellon, and participated in a recital in Perugia, Italy given for Italian nobility with a performance of Liszt's Vallee D'obermann. Mr. Barkan has participated in the masterclasses of Enrique Graf, Ilana Vered, Sergey Schepkin, Sean Duggan, Sandra Shen, Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Norman Krieger.

Noah Barkan's training began at the early age of 8, studying violin with Tatiana Oslanova in Boston. In high school, he was an active participant in orchestra as concertmaster, playing in chamber concerts, charity benefit concerts, and musicals, earning the Music Award from the faculty in 2002. Mr. Barkan switched to piano at the age of 16, and in 2004 was accepted into the Bachelors of Music program at Carnegie Mellon University under the tutelage of Enrique Graf and Sergey Schepkin, pedagogy with Hannah Wu Li. In 2006, Mr. Barkan performed Mozart's Concerto in G major with the Sinfonio Perugia under the baton of Enrico Marconi. In 2007, Mr. Barkan performed J.S. Bach's concerto in F minor with the Baroque Ensemble under Stephen Schultz. Through the summers of 2007 and 2008, Mr. Barkan was accepted as a Head Resident, full tuition plus a stipend included, to the prestigious Brevard Music Center. At the BMC he studied with Norman Krieger of USC and Sandra Shen of SIU, participated as a chorus member in Carmina Burana under the baton of Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops director, and took taught sixteen young adults. Upon successful completion of his BFA with honors in 2008, Noah Barkan was accepted into the University of Colorado's Graduate School for Piano Performance with Doris Pridonoff Lehnert, whose teaching style descends directly from Rhosanna Lhevine of Juilliard.

Noah Barkan actively pursues other interests such as bonsai trees, tennis, having taught younger age tennis players at the Kinyon Jones Tennis camp for years, and especially teaching. He strives to maximize his students' abilities, help them achieve their goals, and most importantly let them grow musically in their respective ways, whether it's stride piano in the style of Jell Roll Morton or playing a Bach suite.