NOAH GELLER : VIOLIN

Violinist Noah Geller, winner of numerous competitions and prizes, has performed throughout the United States and abroad.  A laureate of the 2007 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Mr. Geller recently performed recitals in Queenstown, New Zealand and chamber music with the New Zealand Trio in Auckland’s Town Hall.  Previously he received top prizes in the 2006 Corpus Christi International String Competition,the Skokie Valley Symphony Young Artists’ Competition and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Neale-Silva Young Artists’ Competition in Madison, Wisconsin.  Mr. Geller has also won competitions at the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara) and the Chicago Youth Symphony, resulting in solo performances with those orchestras.  Following performances at the Tanglewood Music Center, he was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize.

In recital, Mr. Geller has appeared at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago as part of the Chicago Youth Symphony’s Distinguished Alumni Recital series.  He has also performed in a live Wisconsin Public Radio broadcast at the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison.  Mr. Geller is enthusiastically involved in new music; he recently performed the world premiere of Eugene O’Brien’s Two Inventions for Violin and Cello, broadcast on WFMT radio Chicago, and has commissioned a piece for solo violin and digital acoustics from composer William Neil.  As a chamber musician, Mr. Geller has appeared on the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series, at the Marlboro Music Festival, Alice Tully Hall, and the Taos School of Music in New Mexico.         

Mr. Geller has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has served in concertmaster and principal positions for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra under James Levine.  Mr. Geller joined the first violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra in January 2008. 

Mr. Geller received his Bachelor’s and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School where he studied with Hyo Kang, Cho-liang Lin, and Donald Weilerstein.