Visiting Artist Residency: Noam Aviel

Residency schedule includes: 

• Graduate Choral Conducting II - Noam will provide insight, coaching, and resources to graduate conducting students about instrumental conducting, using Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, known as the Unfinished Symphony, as teaching piece.
• Master Singers - Noam will coach Jilin Dong (MM Choral Conducting) as she prepares her recital repertoire.
• First Year MM Choral Conducting Private Lessons - First Year graduate conducting students will have the opportunity to be coach one on one with Noam.
• Westminster Choir - Noam will coach Ben Shively (MM Choral Conducting) as he prepares his recital repertoire.
• MECHaT Forum - The department of Music Education, Composition, History, and Theory (MECHaT) holds a weekly forum for theory, composition, voice, and education students. Noam will discuss the challenges and successes of inventive programming or working with living composers and other special topics!
• Undergraduate Conducting - Noam will work with our undergraduate conducting students
• Opera Literature - Noam will speak with students about her work in opera, about the preparation necessary for both singers and conductors, and related topics.
• Jubilee Singers - Noam will work with the Jubilee Singers on repertoire for their spring concert including Zanaida Robles Mass in E Minor.
• Chapel Choir - Noam will work with the Chapel Choir
• Graduate Conducting Forum

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Hailed for her artistic excellence, versatility and charismatic stage presence, Noam Aviel has emerged on the international scene as one of the most dynamic young conductors. She has been recognized for her musicianship, deep understanding of stylistic approaches in a wide range of repertoire from opera and symphonic to jazz, and sensitivity to the needs of the artists with whom she collaborates.

Following her recent debut with the Symphony in C in the US, Noam Aviel has been appointed the orchestra’s Music Director starting from the 2023/2024 season.

Former Associate Conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, Noam Aviel has made successful appearances conducting the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic and Johannesburg Philharmonic orchestras in South Africa as well as San Antonio Philharmonic. In 2022, Noam made her debuts at Opera Orlando with Thomas Albert’s contemporary music drama Lizbeth and at Mobile Opera in Alabama conducting L’elisir d'amore.

Noam Aviel’s future engagements include concerts with Symphony in C, German symphonic debut with Dortmund Philharmoniker, a debut at Opera Tampa conducting Hansel and Gretel, as well as returns to Mobile Opera conducting Marriage of Figaro and Opera Orlando for Massenet’s Cendrillon. Noam Aviel has worked on numerous opera productions including La Traviata, La Bohème, Macbeth, Carmen, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement at the Illinois Festival Opera.

Born in Israel, Noam Aviel studied voice performance and orchestral conducting at Tel Aviv University, and later continued her studies in orchestral conducting at Illinois State University in the US. In 2017 Noam Aviel was appointed Assistant Conductor, later promoted to Associate Conductor, of the San Antonio Symphony where she has led the orchestra’s extensive educational, community and outreach concerts programme working closely with Sebastian Lang Lessing. In this role she quickly gained recognition for inventive programming and has been praised in the US press as one of 25 “Renaissance Women” who have shaped the city of San Antonio.