Noah Perkins, Trombone

Born and raised in Iowa, USA, Noah Perkins is a trombonist and educator. Raised by a family of musicians, he can recall waking up in the morning to the sound of Remington scale exercises played on tuba and euphonium by his father and stepmother. These sounds are what inspired him to, for a short time, take up viola before realizing he made a mistake, and pick up the trombone one year later. In his short career, Noah Perkins has experienced success across a wide array of genres. Soon after finishing his undergraduate studies, he was cast in the touring show ›Blast!‹, touring extensively in Japan throughout 2019 as an onstage multi-instrumentalist in a tour that included an extended stay in the Tokyu Orb Theater in Shibuya, Tokyo. In this past year in Boston, he was a member of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, the Eureka! Ensemble, and the DuBois Orchestra. He is also a founding member of the contemporary music trio nexbloom which has been commissioning and premiering new works by young composers. As a soloist, Noah Perkins was the first non-pianist or violinist to win the Iowa City Music Study Club Recital Scholarship and the first-ever trombonist to be named a finalist in the Brookline Concerto Competition. He was also invited as a performer to the Carsten Svanberg Seminar in Boston (2022), performed in the Divergent Studio Festival in Boston (2022, 2023), and was a member of the prestigious Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in Switzerland, also in 2022 and 2023. Noah Perkins holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the Longy School of Music of Bard College and has studied with Jonathan Allen and William Lang.