Kevin Noe is Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and founder of A Heretic’s Guide to Musicianship, a professional development organization dedicated to strengthening the skills, imagination, and courage of musical leaders everywhere. His annual score study, interpretation, leadership and conducting retreats, now held at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, draws professionals and students from all around the US and internationally. Under his brand Heretic’s Guide, Noe also does professional development residencies working with both students and teachers in universities, secondary school programs, and in tandem with national presenters.

Noe is the founder of Heretical Sound, an audio recording and post-production company dedicated to producing immersive classical music recordings for the modern world.  As an audio and mixing engineer, he is currently working on projects with Sandbox Percussion, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and composers Amy Beth Kirsten, Steven Bryant, Chris Cerrone, Jim Mobberley, Gilda Lyons, and Kevin Puts.  With the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, he has likewise been bringing new ideas to the world of immersive music performance using binaural sound technology in tandem with the audience in headphones.

A passionate promoter of the arts of our time, Noe has commissioned and premiered over one hundred new works to date. Having a background in the theatre, he has served regularly as writer, stage director, singer, actor, conductor, and filmmaker for a variety of mixed-media productions with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.  As a longtime teacher and orchestra trainer, he has worked at Michigan State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Duquesne University, the Pittsburgh Opera, the Melbourne Conservatory, the Oberlin Conservatory, SUNY at Stonybrook, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and has conducted All-

State and honors orchestras all across the US.

As a conducting teacher, Noe’s students have held positions internationally with professional orchestras, conservatories, and universities around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, The Colorado Symphony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, George Mason University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of New Mexico, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Grand Valley State University, the National Orchestra of Bolivia, HSPVA School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and the Orchestre National de France.

Noe is currently working on his first book, entitled:

A Heretic’s Guide to Musicianship

Courage, Heresy, and the Lost Art of Interpretation