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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 sound in space and time.

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 Commission). In February 2025 Nois saxophone quartet and Varo String Quartet premiered Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry in Chicago as part of Frequency Festival.

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 2023 Jenkins developed and premiered After Life (a 40-minute piece with original text for vocalist and ensemble) in Chicago with Après L’Histoire and in 2022 Wild Up premiered Spirits Hover as part of the LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival.

Noah holds a PhD in Composition and Music Technology from Northwestern University and teaches classes in composition, music theory, and aural skills both privately and at Northwestern.

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