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NOAH JENKINS

Noah Jenkins is a composer and violinist/violist from Oregon, now living in Chicago. His music is inspired by tuning, field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic phenomena, and experiences of deep sound in deep time.

In 2022 Wild Up premiered Spirits Hover as part of the LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival. In 2023 Jenkins developed and premiered After Life (a 40-minute piece with original text for vocalist and ensemble) in Chicago with Après L’Histoire. In 2024 he released Without Persistent Environments (Sawyer Editions), an album of two electroacoustic trombone pieces recorded by Chicago trombonist and composer Riley Leitch. Peter Margasak (Bandcamp) praised the music’s “sustained lines awash in luxurious overtones” and its “focus on the dynamic interaction of sound drifting into eternity.”

In January 2025 John Adams conducted the LA Phil New Music Group in the premiere of Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard, a work for string orchestra, keyboards, and antiphonal percussion (an LA Phil Commision). In February 2025, ~Nois saxophone quartet and Varo String Quartet will premiere Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry in Chicago as part of Frequency Festival.

Noah holds a PhD in Composition and Music Technology from Northwestern University and teaches classes in composition, music theory, and aural skills at both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Northwestern.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

April 10, 2025
Guest presenter
UW-M composition studio
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

April 17, 2025
Guest presenter
NU composition colloquium
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

April 26, 2025
Chicago Composers Orchestra
World Premieres by Carlos Bandera, Ephraim Champion, and Ania Vu
St. James Cathedral
Chicago, IL

June 3, 2025
After Life (excerpts)
The Renaissance Singers
First United Methodist Church
Evanston, IL