Art Base

Three generations of Belgian composers share this program with the music
of Frederic Rzewski, who was among Ledoux’s own teachers. Jesupret’s
Lueurs immergées and De Glace trace light and ice; Ledoux’s You, Lonely
Japanese Woman, and Saveur de Ciel grow from his lifelong engagement
with Japanese music and culture; Deleuze’s Espaces Oniriques I pursues
the harmonically colored, microtonal language he has developed since his
early encounter with Messiaen. The program closes with the great
American composer, Frederic Rzewski, who resided in Brussels from 1977
until his death in 2021. Michael presents his four North American
Ballads (Dreadful Memories, Which Side Are You On?, Down by the
Riverside, Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues), music of protest and pianistic
force.

Michael Noble is "a pianist with an admirable ability to serve the music
at times with the subtlety of a master chamber music player, and also at
times to blaze forth with commanding virtuosityand to carry [the
audience] to dramatic climaxes."
(Lyn Bronson,  Peninsula Reviews).

A prizewinner of numerous international competitions, Michael has been
called "a pianist to remember" (Het Nieuwsblad) and "exceptional" (New
York Concert Review). His most recent accolades include nominations in
the Best Classical Artist and Best Classical Song categories at the 2024
and 2026 Wammie Music Awards, the DC metro area's counterpart to the
Grammys.
Michael's discography includes three critically acclaimed solo albums,
American Dissident, Ascension, and Silver Screen, which together have
surpassed 1.3 million streams across major platforms.
He has performed in renowned venues, including Weill and Zankel Halls at
Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis), the Museum of the History
of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, and
the Preston Bradley Center in Chicago. He is a sought-after guest
artist, appearing regularly at festivals including Cremona Musica
(Italy), Gentsche Festspiele (Belgium), the Kwadrofonik Festival
(Poland), LOOP (Belgium), Musiksommer Schloss Rosenegg (Austria), and
the Thailand International Composition Festival. Michael has been
featured as soloist with the Monterey and Tulsa Symphonies, and the
Idyllwild Arts Academy Alumni Orchestra, among others. Michael holds a
doctoral and two master's degrees from the Yale School of Music and a BM
and a BA in English Literature cum laude from the Eastman School of
Music and the University of Rochester respectively. He attended the
Paris Conservatoire and the Royal Ghent Conservatory, the latter as a
Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. His principal
teachers and mentors include Peter Frankl, Nelita True, Melvin Chen,
Daan Vandewalle, and Nicholas Angelich.
A strong advocate for new music, he has commissioned pieces by Claude
Ledoux and Jesse Limbacher and is widely recognized as a leading
interpreter of Frederic Rzewski's music. His 2026-27 season features
solo and chamber performances throughout Belgium, Italy, and the United
States, including at the Italian Embassy and the European-American
Cultural Foundation, along with residencies at Georgetown University and
the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, and the release of Homage and
Resonance, his fourth and fifth solo albums. Michael is on faculty at
Levine Music and a frequent guest lecturer at Georgetown University. He
is a Voting Member of The Recording Academy (the GRAMMYs) and is
represented by BMI.

For more information visit michaelnoble.net.

Program order:

Jesupret: Lueurs immergées

Ledoux: You, Lonely Japanese Woman, Saveur de Ciel

Jesupret: De Glace

Deleuze: Espaces Oniriques I

Rzewski:

North American Ballads:
Dreadful Memories, Which Side Are You On?,
Down by the Riverside, Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

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