Noah Meites, composer and continuing lecturer in music theory, has just released his new album “Counting” with New Focus Records. This collection of chamber music “chronicles his vibrant artistic voice and his role as an active member of that city’s fertile contemporary music community. Featuring performances by Brightwork New Music, HOCKET, violist Linnea Powell, pianist richi valitutto, New Thread Quartet, and Meites’ own ensemble LA Signal Lab, COUNTING is a vital snapshot of a prolific artist in one of the United States’ most vital new music scenes.”
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“The release of this first full-length recording of the music of Noah Meites is a genuine musical event, not merely for the composer but for the Los Angeles new music community as a whole, as Meites draws from the talents of a range of innovative, imaginative, and spellbindingly proficient ensembles and soloists working in the city.”
– Brian Kim Stefans
A number of school of music faculty were also involved in the album’s production. The title track features performances by saxophonists Hitomi Oba and Jan Berry Baker and trumpeter Dan Rosenbloom. The track “Fracture Mechanics” was recorded by New Thread Quartet while at residence at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in early 2024. The album was produced by Nick DePinna and liner notes are by UCLA poetry professor Brian Kim Stefans.
About Noah Meites
Noted for his “lyricism and complexity” (SF Classical Voice), composer Noah Meites (b. 1982) writes dramatic, often rhythmically charged music that forges unexpected connections across musical traditions and historical eras.
He is a co-founder of LA Signal Lab, a composer-performer collective formed with Hitomi Oba, Nick DePinna, and Dan Marschak, dedicated to presenting stylistically diverse work with a particular emphasis on the intersection of improvised and pre-composed music. He is on faculty at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.