Kevin Noe, executive artistic director

Kevin Noe is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. A passionate supporter and promoter of composers, creators, and the arts of our time, Mr. Noe has commissioned and premiered over thirty new works written for new music ensembles and orchestras in the last five years alone. He has a particular interest in works which employ a variety of art forms including music, dance, theater, film, and visual arts, and he serves regularly as conductor, stage director, actor, and filmmaker for a variety of mixed-media, operatic, and theatrical productions. Mr. Noe is a co-founder of the newly formed company Now Here This which creates and performs new works in a wide variety of forms, and is currently in creation of its first multi-disciplinary work entitled Glass Witness.

Mr. Noe has held conducting posts at the University of Texas at Austin, Duquesne University, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Opera Center and he works regularly as a guest conductor with a wide variety of ensembles. Noe completed his graduate studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas where he received the prestigious Sally Shepherd Perkins Prize in Music and was awarded the Maurice Abravanel Fellowship as a conductor at the Tanglewood Festival. Mr. Noe’s principal conducting teacher was Larry Rachleff, and he also studied conducting with Robert Spano, Gunther Schuller, and Seiji Ozawa.

Danielle Brewer, audience enrichment specialist

Danielle Brewer has previously served the PNME as the administrative assistant factotum, a performer, and the in-house massage therapist. Currently, she is serving as the Audience Enrichment Specialist through PNME's very own Audience Enrichment Initiative; a new program funded through the Heinz Endowments.

Danielle is currently working towards a degree in Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is particularly interested in cultural and linguistic anthropology, and hopes to write about her anthropological research in a way that is both accessible and interesting to the public abroad. Danielle resides in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her best friends in the universe and enjoys the heat as well as the fantastic Mexican food.

Paul Ford, technical director

Paul is an actor who resides in Pittsburgh. Most recently he appeared in Julius Ceasar with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and Baby’s Blues at The Pittsburgh Playhouse. Paul also appeared in Richard The II for Quantum Theatre, Coriolanus with Unseamíd Shakespeare co. and a host of productions at City Theatre Co. His favorites there include The Baltimore Waltz and Master Class.

Paul is currently the Technical Director at City Theatre and is entering his 17th season with the company. Paul is proud and excited to be joining Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble this season and would like to thank his partner Jerry for the well of love and support he provides.

Lindsey Goodman, flute

Lindsey J. Goodman has been described as a “legitimate virtuoso” who performs with “agility and emotion” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and “impressive artistry." An avid performer of new music, “flutist Lindsey Goodman appears to know no fear in tackling the most demanding music” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). Lindsey is an active commissioner of new works and has given over thirty world premieres, including solo and chamber pieces composed especially for her by such PNME favorites as David Stock, Jeffrey Nytch, and Brett Dietz. She takes great pleasure in being part of the PNME family, not only as a performer in her seventh season with the ensemble, but also as an audience enrichment specialist through the Audience Enrichment Initiative.

As an orchestral musician, Goodman is the acting principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and frequently performs with the Toledo and Lima (OH) Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Fort Wayne (IN), Erie (PA), and Tuscarawas (OH) Philharmonics. Lindsey is also a co-founder of VOX, a contemporary trio dedicated to commissioning music for a new sound combination, and a member of the interdisciplinary company Now Here This. Additionally, she has performed with Alarm Will Sound and the New World Symphony.

A student of New York Philharmonic principal flutist Robert Langevin, Goodman also studied with Walfrid Kujala, former principal piccolo of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She received her masters degree from Northwestern University, her bachelors degree summa cum laude from Duquesne University, and a professional studies diploma from the Manhattan School of Music’s orchestral performance program. Raised in Ohio, Lindsey currently resides outside Columbus with her husband, percussionist and educator Chris Carmean, and their dog Jack. There, she maintains an active teaching studio and moonlights as a fashionista, poet, and party-giver extraordinaire.

Jim Johnston, piano

James Johnston is an American pianist whose abilities range from fresh interpretations of the classic literature to new music, improvisation, and jazz. With degrees from the Juilliard School and Yale University, Mr. Johnston is active both as a solo performer and chamber musician. As a recent soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart's Concerto K.453, Mr. Johnston performed a different original cadenza at each of the four performances.

Highlights of Mr. Johnston’s recent new music activities include New York performances of Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto and John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music, solo performances of Nancarrow’s Canons for Ursula, John Adams’ China Gates, and Thomas Ades’ Darknesse Visible, and chamber collaborations with David Rakowski, Martin Bresnick, Paul Ruders, and the Minimum Security Composers Collective.

Mr. Johnston’s chamber music activities include concerts with the Proteus ensemble, winners in the Yellow Springs and Fischoff National Chamber Music Competitions and recent residents as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. In 2006, Proteus made its Lincoln Center debut at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Great Performers at Lincoln Center Series.

Mr. Johnston also performs with the new music group Fireworks, whose recent performances have included a west coast tour, a concert of surrealist music at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the complete Berio sequenzas at the Tenri Cultural Institute, and a portrait of Frank Zappa’s music at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. The group has also performed its rock arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Springat the Knitting Factory in New York City.

Mr. Johnston also performs with the new music focused rock quartet Electric Kompany, which just completed a week-long residency at the Utrecht Conservatory and a concert of commissioned pieces with the Ethel Quartet. Upcoming concerts include a concerto performance with the Cleveland Youth Symphony in a new work for rock band and orchestra by Ryan Gallagher. He is also a founding member of the politically-oriented chamber band Newspeak, a participant in the 2005 Free Speech Zone tour with upcoming perfoemances of new pieces at Princeton University and as part of the MATA series.

Mr. Johnston has also arranged several works for his ensembles, including Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Eric Dolphy’s Hat and Beard, Gershwin’s Three Preludes, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring.

Mr. Johnston recently completed his Doctoral Studies at the Manhattan School of Music. He currently lives in New York.

Timothy Jones, bass-baritone

Acclaimed in concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe, Timothy Jones is rapidly emerging as one of the leading bass-baritones of his generation. His eagerly anticipated performances combine intelligent musicianship, commanding vocal technique and a unique ability to connect with audiences. He is a champion of opera, the concert stage, chamber music, solo recitals and the premieres of contemporary works.

Jones has performed under Craig Hella Johnson, Martin Katz, David Mairs, Nicholas McGegan, Gustav Meier, Kevin Noe, Laurence Leighton Smith, and Christopher Wilkins. A favorite of contemporary composers, he has commissioned and premiered numerous compositions including works by Robert Avalon, James Balentine, Derek Bermel, Laura Carmichael, John Vasconcelos Costa, Ellwood Derr, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Heuser, Jeffrey Nytch, Doug Opel, and Joe Stuessy.

Jones is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano and voice at Centenary College and earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan, where he studied under the tutelage of distinguished professor George Shirley. He was the winner of the Alice Baird Award, the Joy Whitman Weinberger Award, the Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee Award for academic study and the Friends of Opera Competition. He was also awarded a fellowship at the Aspen Opera Theater Center where he was a winner in the Concerto/Aria Competition. Jones currently resides in Houston where he serves on the faculty of the University of Houston.

Norbert Lewandowski, cello

Norbert Lewandowski was born in Milwaukee, WI and began cello studies at the age of 13. He holds a Master’s degree in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and is currently in his sixth season as Assistant Principal cellist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Prior to his appointment in Charleston Norbert performed as a member of the Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Minnesota Opera, and the chamber music festival in Taos, New Mexico. As the newest member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble he brings with him a wealth of contemporary music experience, having performed and recorded extensively with the groups Alarm Will Sound and Brave New Works. He has also been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions including past performances with the New World Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Norbert's cello was made by Emil Hjorth in Copenhagen, 1890, and is on a generous loan from the Virtu Foundation in Charlottesville, VA.

Tori Lindsay, violin

Victoria Lindsay, violin, has consistently distinguished herself onstage as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. In 2006 she joined the Victoria Symphony in British Columbia, Canada, holding the position of Principal Second Violin; other orchestral appearances include the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Opera and Ballet Orchestras. She has also been invited to act as guest Concertmaster with Symphony Nova Scotia. In the chamber orchestra setting, Ms. Lindsay has performed with the Galiano Ensemble and the River Oaks, Metamorphosen, and Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestras in venues across North America.

With a passion for chamber music, Tori has worked with the Gemini Quartet, the Hathor Quartet and the Lindsay Piano Trio, while collaborating with composers in the performance of new works, including a world premiere of Toronto composer Phillip Loosemore's Song for the Sisters. The Gemini Quartet, with whom she inspired audiences for a decade, won the Chamber Music award at the National Kiwanis Festival of Canada, while its members were just teenagers. As a student entering her junior year, she performed the Mendelssohn Octet in a University of Toronto Faculty Artist's Concert with the St. Lawrence Quartet. Ms. Lindsay has also performed in the Victoria Symphony's critically acclaimed Mozart Festival.

As Associate Concertmaster at the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, Tori impressed audience members with a performance of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto, under the baton of Andrew Litton. A solo performance with the Victoria Symphony is scheduled for the 2008/2009 season.

During the summer of 2007 Ms. Lindsay was on the faculty of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Prior to this she worked closely with the strings program at Baker Sixth Grade Campus in Laporte, Texas. She is now the newest faculty member at the Victoria Conservatory of music.

Tori has participated in the Stanford University Chamber Music Seminar studying with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and attended the Banff Centre and the Domaine Forget festival. She has been a fellow of the Aspen Music Festival, the Tanglewood Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. The recipient of the Margaret and Emory Carl Endowed Scholarship in Music at Rice University, Ms. Lindsay has also garnered numerous awards in her native Toronto including the Felix Galimir Award in Chamber Music for two consecutive years.

In 2005 Tori graduated with honors from Rice University with a Masters degree in violin performance under the tutelage of Kathleen Winkler. Born in Grimsby, Ontario, she began violin studies at the age of 9 and continued at the University of Toronto with David Zafer and Mayumi Seiler.

Campbell MacDonald, clarinet

Seattle native Campbell MacDonald is Principal Clarinet of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and a fixture at chamber music, opera, pop and orchestral music venues throughout the mid west. Campbell has appeared in numerous performances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Symphony and prior to joining the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in September of 2004, held positions in the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit and spent six summers in Mexico City, Mexico as Solo Clarinetist of La Orquésta Sinfónica de Minería. He has performed solo and chamber music recitals in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Mexico City, Oberlin, Seattle and Grand Rapids.

In addition to his duties with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Campbell is an active chamber musician and performer of new music. He is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (www.iceorg.org) and has performed with the group extensively throughout the country, including a concert at Columbia University's Miller Theatre praised by the New York Times as one of the “Top 10 Classical Music Moments of 2003," and at Finney Chapel in Oberlin, Ohio as part of the prestigious Artist Recital Series at Oberlin College. Campbell's recent activities with ICE include a concert in Chicago at Columbia College in December of 2007 featuring chamber music by Latin American composers under the auspices of the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, and a performance in New York City of bass clarinet solo and chamber works at Wicker Park's Heaven The Tank in June of 2008.

He has made additional chamber music appearances with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, with the Seattle Chamber Players at Nordstrom Recital Hall and with members of the Detroit Symphony as part of their 8 Days in June festival.

Campbell performed on the International Contemporary Ensemble's 2007 CD release of Huang Ruo's Chamber Concerto Cycle on the NAXOS label as well as the Detroit Chamber Winds KOCH release of Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major. Campbell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, attended DePaul University in Chicago, and has studied privately with Larry Combs, David Weber, Lawrence McDonald, and Laura DeLuca.

Chris McGlumphy, Director of Development & Sound Designer

From 2004 to 2006 Chris McGlumphy was Managing Director of Philadelphia’s new music ensemble Relâche. During this time he presented 26 concerts and 14 world premiere works, including a major new work from composer Gavin Bryars; an evening-length drama by the Minimum Security Composers Collective based on the books of Maurice Sendak; a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic silent The Lodger with a new live score by British composer Joby Talbot; and composer Jay Fluellen’s innovative tribute to Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday that brought together the Relâche Ensemble octet, a gospel choir, original poetry and film for special performances at the National Constitution Center and the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia.

From 2006 to 2008, Chris was Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society where he presented a series of 6 to 8 chamber music concerts per season featuring some of the world’s most renowned musicians. He also planned and implemented the largest special event in the organization’s history – a two-year, eight concert festival of string quartets that included the commissioning of four new works.

Chris has composed scores for a number of films, including the award winning independent feature Being Claudine, Vasarma’s Lovers, and the experimental silent film Synchronicity; as well as works for live theater such as Gibbous Moon, Inchoate’s Journal, James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and songs for the American premiere of Dario Fo’s The Devil With Boobs. Chris has also worked with the Music Department of ABC Television and for several years worked in the promotion department of one of America’s oldest and most respected classical music publishers, G. Schirmer, Inc. Chris completed his undergraduate studies at Dickinson College, where he earned a B.A. in Music and a B.S. in Mathematics, and his graduate work at New York University, where received an M.M. in Music Technology. While at NYU, he studied composition with Ken Valitsky, Nick Didkovsky, Philip Johnston, and Ron Sadoff; Max/MSP programming with Dafna Naphtali; and audio editing with Emmy winning sound editor Sean Huff.

Andy Ostrowski, lighting designer

Andy Ostrowski is pleased to be working for PNME once again. This past year has been quite busy for Andy, during which time he designed multiple shows for City Theater, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, the Pittsburgh Playhouse and 5 operas for Pittsburgh Opera. During the summer of 2003 he worked in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Munich as the Lighting Director for an international tour of Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess." He also had time to design "My Fair Lady" and "Funny Girl" for Civic Light Opera. He recently had the opportunity to be part of the world premiere of "RED" for the Pittsburgh Playhouse Conservatory, while his work on Pittsburgh Irish and Classical's production of "Faith Healer" was revived and toured 15 cities in Ireland.

Andy has also designed productions for Club Med and has worked and designed for the Spoleto Festival, USA. A prominent member of the Pittsburgh theatrical community for over a decade, Andy's work on "Grand Hotel" for the Playhouse Conservatory 2 years ago earned him a national merit award from the American College Theater Festival. He would like to thank his family and friends for their ongoing support.

David Skidmore, percussion

David Skidmore is active as both a performer and composer of music for percussion. In addition to his work with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, David is a member of Third Coast Percussion, the Lucerne Festival Percussion Group, and Collide. He is a dedicated advocate for the music of our time, having commissioned, premiered, and performed dozens of new works by many of the great composers of the 20th and 21st century. David has been featured as a soloist in Chicago, London, and Sapporo, Japan. As a chamber musician, David has performed for the Music on the Edge series in Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Art Museum Concert Series, June in Buffalo, Klangspuren Schwaz, the Philharmonie Essen, the Ojai Music Festival, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Bang On a Can Marathon, the Princeton Composers’ Ensemble, and at three Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. He has performed with So Percussion, the Signal Contemporary Ensemble, and Contempo (the University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players). David has also performed as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Pacific Music Festival, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and the National Repertory Orchestra.

David’s compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and universities across the country. He was awarded 1st prize in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest and 2nd prize in the 2004 contest.

David received the Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and the Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. His teachers have included Robert Van Sice, Michael Burritt, James Ross, Paul Wertico, and Michael Hernandez.

Daniel Spiegel, piano

Daniel Spiegel's multifaceted musical talent has led him to explore many different aspects of being a pianist. He is equally at home as a solo performer and as a collaborative artist, and he has performed extensively in chamber and orchestral ensembles. Spiegel is also deeply committed to the performance of the music of promising young composers, as well as the music of established figures in contemporary music.

Spiegel has recently completed his Master of Music degree in piano performance at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Joseph Kalichstein. Spiegel earned his Bachelor of Music degree at Peabody Conservatory, concurrently earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Johns Hopkins University. He has won numerous competitions and awards, leading to performances with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Guilford Symphony, the Montgomery Symphony, and the National Chamber Orchestra.

Spiegel performs extensively as a collaborative artist with both instrumentalists and vocalists and he has worked with artists such as Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer. His performances of violin and piano works in Ottawa and Montreal were recorded by CBC for broadcast throughout Canada and Europe. He has also performed chamber music at venues such as Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater.

An avid proponent of new music, Spiegel has commissioned and premiered many works by his peers and he has performed with the Peabody Camerata and New Juilliard Ensemble as both soloist and ensemble player. He has also served as pianist for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, a chamber ensemble dedicated exclusively to new music.

P.O. Box 99476, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

contactpnme@gmail.com