Composer Noam Faingold (b. 1984) is passionate about composing and collaborating in traditional, multi-disciplinary, and cross-genre projects. Faingold’s music has been praised as "...lyrical...", "...exhilarating...", and "...a tour-de-force of Jazz melded with Classical" by The New York Times, The BBC, and Downbeat Magazine, among others. Highlights include works composed for Leilehua Lanzelotti (Pulitzer Prize finalist), cellist Inbal Segev (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), Oboist Rob Botti (New York Philharmonic), and violinists Domenic Salerni (Attacca Quartet), Jesse Mills (Horszowski Trio), and Itamar Zorman (Lysander Trio), and the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival, performances by chamber ensembles the Argus Quartet, PubliQUARTET, and Fidelio Trio, pianists Michael Brown (CMS) and Peter Dugan (Host of NPR’s From the Top), and arrangements for the London Symphony Orchestra, OK Mozart, and Pentatone Records. Faingold is most excited by multi-stakeholder collaborations, composition projects, and special events. Current projects include a new piece for DC’s Sumner Museum 150th anniversary and Duke Ellington School of the Arts students and faculty. His “A Prayer for Those Who Look Away” for Inbal Segev, was turned into a video collaboration with YouTuber The Cello Doll, and featured as an installation at the Sumner Museum. “The Defiant Poet: Elegy in Memory of Yevgeny Yevtushenko” brought together the late 20th century poet and Shostakovich collaborator’s family, multiple orchestras, and Navona Records to commemorate Yevtushenko upon his passing. “We Persist,” one of the first original virtual orchestra pieces, collaborated with the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the Tulsa Symphony, and has been viewed over 50,000 times on multiple platforms. His music can be found in the Sphinx catalogue of Latin American Cello Works and the Latin Orchestral Music catalogue. As an educator, Faingold is excited about providing composition mentorship and generating enthusiasm for new music. In 2023 the US Navy Band performed a piece he co-composed with 9 DC Public Schools students, and he mentored DCPS’ student composer’s first orchestral piece for the year’s 100+ student/teacher district Honor Ensemble. He also mentors and advocates as composer-in-residence with Washington Musica Viva and Oklahoma State University’s Community Music School and Cellofest, and as arts mentor with the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Music Teachers National Association. Previous roles include Visiting Artist in Composition at The University of Tulsa, and creator/director of the composition programs at Tulsa Community College and The bART. Faingold has held fellowships through the Salzburg Global Seminar, The Bowdoin International Music Festival, The Atlantic Music Festival, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, who funded his Music Composition PhD at King’s College London.