Kyung-Ah Noh
Biographie Kyung-Ah Noh
Kyung-Ah Noh
was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the piano at the age of seven and studied with Eun Kyung Park at Deokwon Art High School, playing in the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Exhibition Hall in Seoul as a representative of the Music Department. From 2001 until 2005 she took a Bachelor’s degree at the Kyung Hee University with Leda Kim and Joo Hyun Cho and received her Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, with Bruce Brubaker, in 2008. ere she was a winner in the Honor Competition, playing Busoni’s Toccata in Jordan Hall – a performance included on a CD of the New England Conservatory in 2009, NEC: It’s about the music. She participated in a Messiaen centenary concert in Jordan Hall and played as a representative of the piano department in an NEC ‘Commencement’ concert. She continued her studies with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas in Denton, where she held a teaching fellowship for three years.
At home she has won a number of piano competitions, including those held by e Korea Daily News, the National Filial Piety Music Contest and the Korean Piano Academics Association in South Korea. Further a eld, she won rst prize in the International Piano Workshop Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2010.
Her interest in chamber music was encouraged by coaching from Mai Motobuchi and Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music and with Igor Borodin, George Papich and Susan Dubois at the University of North Texas. She has participated in master-classes with Balázs Fülei, Joseph Standford, Mihail Milkov and Murray McLachlan. She holds the Peggy Boston Duggan piano scholarship at the University of North Texas, where in August 2014 she was awarded a doctoral degree, with a dissertation on Gordon Binkerd’s Intermezzo from Essays for the Piano (1976): A Comprehensive Analysis of Brahmsian Compositional Influence and Stylistic Elements.
