Noah Simon is a composer-performer, sound technician, and educator currently based in Bowling Green, Ohio. His work as a pianist, guitarist, accordionist, songwriter, sound engineer, and electronic musician inform his compositions, which range in style from classical chamber music and opera to noise music, guitar-pop, and country, and often contain many layers that reflect his multifaceted musical identity. A lyricist as well as a composer, words, speech, song are an essential part of his musical practice, which often explores themes of personhood, creativity, and the artistic process. Recent projects include doing surgery on a dobro, writing a mini-opera about how God made Salamanders, learning guitar parts to Jimi Hendrix songs, and coding instruments and songs in Pure Data and SuperCollider.

Noah currently studies composition with Dr. John Eagle at Bowling Green State University. Growing up in Austin, Texas, he played classical piano and self-taught guitar as a child. He earned a B.M. in Music Composition and a B.A. in Plan II Honors and Spanish at UT Austin, where he studied composition with Yevgeniy Sharlat, Januibe Tejera, Russell Podgorsek, Chris Trapani, and Omar Thomas, and piano with Sophia Gilmson and Andrew Brownell. During his time in Austin, he taught and maintained an active piano studio that grew to thirty-five students from 2019-2024, he served as UT New Music Ensemble pianist from 2019-2022, and he played keyboard and accordion in rock, blues, and salsa bands in Austin. He also started his own noise-music solo project, The Podcast, where he plays mixer and sings.

In the summers, Noah works at Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont as Stage Crew, helping produce Marlboro’s concerts and assisting classical musicians such as Mitsuko Uchida and Anthony McGill. In his free time, Noah loves to backpack, camp, and travel. In the summer of 2024, he brought his backpack, tent, and guitar overseas, hiked across Basque Country and also became certified as an official street performer in Munich, Germany, among other adventures. Most of all, he loves spending time in México and Colombia. These days, you can find him biking the streets of Bowling Green, Ohio, working in the BGSU Music Building, or cooking up southern food and Mexican food in his apartment.