Zrikhat Hashemesh, "Sunrise" for string quartet - ii. grating
Andie Springer, violin i
Patti Kilroy, violin ii
Rick Quantz, viola
Alex Greenbaum, cello
(recorded live at Roulette Gallery NYC, May 31 2009)
Continuums for Solo Cello: Intermezzo - Etiquette
Leat Sabbah, cello
(recorded live at Le Poisson Rouge, September 2 2009)
Tango Variations: two short pieces for double bass duet - ii
Matthew Weber, double bass i
Matthew Rosenthal, double bass ii
(recorded live at Bowdoin International Music Festival, August 2 2009)
Chamber Symphony
Noam Faingold, conductor
Noam Faingold Orchestra
(recorded live at NYU, Nov. 2nd 2008)
Zrikhat Hashemesh, "Sunrise" i - tranquil
Micah Gangwer, violin i
Julia Loucks, violin ii
Rachel Sanders, viola
Elise Hughey, cello
(recorded live at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine July 28 2008)
Influences
give my regards to 8th street, the aesthetics of survival, harmonielehre, stocktakings from an apprenticeship, fugazi, andre breton, at the drive-in, webern, miles davis, diaspora y exilio, giuseppe di lampedusa
Noam Faingold’s unique sound stems from growing up playing rock music, eventually broadening his interests to classical and jazz. He combines these musical idioms with music heard growing up as an Israeli born to Argentinean and Brazilian parents. Aside from writing chamber music, current projects include an orchestral collaboration with the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey for the OKMozart festival and writing and performing with his rock orchestra The Noam Faingold Orchestra, which has recently had the honors of opening the Lower East Side Festival and placing in the top 20 (out of 2,000 entries from 88 countries) in the BBC’s “Next Big Thing 2007” competition. Noam also works as a performer and conductor, most recently conducting the premieres of new works by composers at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and his arrangement of Webern’s notoriously difficult “Five Pieces for String Quartet” for the rock orchestra. As a double bassist he has played with New York’s One World Symphony, the Manhattan Camerata, Bowdoin Festival Orchestra and the Boston-based new music ensemble Juventas. He is in his first year of his PhD in music at King’s College London on a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Fellowship.
Upcoming projects include a concerto for virtuoso double bassist Kurt Muroki (Chamber Music at Lincoln Center), a new work for NYC's Transit new music ensemble and new pieces for the Circles and Lines and Syzygy composer’s ensembles also in New York City. Noam is the composer-in-residence at the Midtown School for the Performing Arts in Tulsa, OK.
This page is the home for all information on performances of Faingold's works as well as the works of others. For info on the Noam Faingold Orchestra please go to myspace.com/noamfaingold or click on the icon below. Thank you very much for visiting!
hey noam, i was just creeping on JFJO's page and looking at these new NYC winter tour pictures they put up and an extreme close-up of the top half of your face is in a couple of them! check it out.
i'm way creepy, by the way.
i saw them here on new year's eve, it was pretty wild. best cover of 'billie jean' i do believe i've ever heard.
Hey, Noam! It's nice to finally hear some of you works since you've been in NY. They sound great- the singer on struggle has a great voice. How are things in NY?
