Noah Aronson is an energetic and soulful composer/performer whose unique musical style propels his music into communities across North America, Israel, and Europe. Noah earned a degree in Jazz Composition and Piano from Berklee College of Music in Boston and held the position of Composer-in-Residence at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA.Noah conducted the Manhattan HaZamir Choir from 2008-2010 and his choral music received an honorable mention in the 2009 GTM Young Composer’s Award.
Noah released his first solo Jewish album in May 2011 and the title song ‘Am I Awake’ was a winner in the NewVoices song competition at NewCAJEin 2011. Noah’s album ‘Left Side of the Page’, released in 2013, has received wide-spread acclaim for it’s musical settings of poetic selections from the Mishkan Tefilah Prayer Book.
Renowned for his unique and engaging style of prayer leadership, he had the distinct honor of leading over 5,000 people in Shabbat worship at the 2013 URJ Biennial in San Diego, CA.
Noah currently chairs the faculty of Hava Nashira and serves on faculty for several other musical retreats throughout the year including Shabbat Shira in Oconomowoc, WI and Shirei Chagigah in London, England.
In 2015, Noah partnered with Behrman House, the largest distributor of Jewish educational materials, to create an innovative, music-based curriculum entitled Hebrew in Harmony. His music has also been featured on two compilations from the PJ Library series.
Noah is currently serving as the Creative Director of Sacred Music NY, a non-profit organization he helped to create, that organizes concerts around New York City bringing together spiritual musicians from diverse backgrounds to inspire interfaith dialogue and social change.
Noah’s music is now sung in progressive communities and summer camps worldwide and has been included as part of the Cantorial curriculum at the Hebrew Union College’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music in New York City where he currently resides.