Hailed as “ter-RIFF-ic!” by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and “a technically gifted young virtuoso” (Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), pianist Noah Alden Hardaway is forging a multifaceted career as far afield as Spain, Sardinia and Lithuania, as well as Canada and the United States. He is a regular on the festival circuit, including Art of the Piano in Cincinnati, Ohio, and two summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he performed as soloist with the Aspen Sinfonia Concertante. Noah won first prize at the 2022 Mary Graham Lasley Scholarship associated with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and was a finalist in the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition and the 2019 Frances Walton Competition in Seattle, Washington. He has performed on WUSF 89.7 FM and has appeared in the Houston Chronicle as well as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Winchester Star and Texas Signal. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Noah has given online concerts and lecture-recitals for Literary Music Series, Emerson Avenue Salons and St. Boniface in Sarasota, among others, as well as in-person performances in Virginia, Florida, Texas and his Philadelphia debut.

Noah works as assistant head of piano at tonebase, a company producing innovative and high-quality teaching videos featuring the world’s top pianists. He is passionate about curating unconventional projects, including assembling large student ensembles, hosting radio programs and leading interdisciplinary performances. At Shenandoah University’s 2018 ShenCoLAB, Noah received a grant to direct and perform in the Virginia premiere of Schnittke/Kandinsky’s Der gelbe Klang (“The yellow sound”). Noah serves as head of the project committee at the Adamant Music School in Vermont and teaches piano at the Wakefield School in Virginia.

Since 2014, Noah has studied intensively with Moscow Conservatory artists Vadym Kholodenko, Sergei Glavatskih and Pavel Nersessian, and his senior thesis is the first English-language exploration of Vera Gornostaeva’s life and work: a transformative approach to the art of teaching in the grand tradition of Heinrich Neuhaus. Noah graduated magna cum laude from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music with Distinction in Research and Creative Works. Esteemed Irish pianist John O’Conor has been a key mentor since 2012, and Noah recently completed his master’s degree at Shenandoah University as a student of O’Conor, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate as a full assistantship recipient.