KEN NODA
(piano)

Ken Noda is Musical Assistant to James Levine on the Artistic Administration of the Metropolitan Opera. He began his work there in l991 after he retired from a full-time performing career as a concert pianist. He studied with Daniel Barenboim and made his London debut in l979 with Barenboim conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. Since then, he has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the Berlin, Vienna, New York, Israel, and Los Angeles Philharmonics; the London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, and National Symphonies; the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Philharmonia Orchestra of London, under such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Chailly, Kubelik, Levine, Mehta, Ozawa, and Previn. He has also collaborated as chamber musician with James Levine (at two pianos), Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Nigel Kennedy; and as lieder accompanist to Kathleen Battle, Hildegard Behrens, Maria Ewing, and Jessye Norman. Since l999, he has been a participant every summer at the Marlboro Music Festival.