With a trumpet sound possessing a "beyond-category beauty” (Dan Bilawksy, All About Jazz), Australian-born trumpeter/composer Nadje Noordhuis’ deeply-felt, clarion tone and evocative compositional gift meld classical rigor, jazz expression, and world music accents into a sound that is distinctively her own.

Noordhuis was one of ten semi-finalists in the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition and was selected as a Carnegie Hall Young Artist in 2010. Based in New York City since 2003, she is a member of the multiple GRAMMY-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra and GRAMMY-nominated ensembles Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Anat Cohen Tentet.

Noordhuis has four albums of original compositions on her record label, Little Mystery Records. Her eponymous debut jazz quintet album featuring GRAMMY nominees Sara Caswell and Geoffrey Keezer was released to critical acclaim in 2012. Her 2015 contemplative duo album of miniatures with pianist Luke Howard, Ten Sails, has garnered much international attention with over eight million streams on Spotify. Her duo album with vibraphonist/synthesist James Shipp, Indigo, was premiered at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival in Australia in 2017. Her latest release, Gullfoss, was recorded live in Switzerland in 2019 for a vinyl-only box set on Newvelle Records. Re-released digitally on Little Mystery Records, this record has garnered multiple five star reviews, and was listed as one of the best albums of 2021 by Jazz Times magazine.

Noordhuis is on the jazz trumpet faculty at Manhattan School of Music, Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music Precollege, and maintains a busy private studio.