Noah Turner Rogoff, Cello

Biography

Described
by The Boston Globe as a "talented, . . .fine player," Noah Turner Rogoff began studying cello
at the age of four.  He is currently in
his second year as Assistant Professor of Cello at the University
of Nebraska - Kearney. 
He holds a master of arts in music theory and a doctorate in cello
performance from the University
of Minnesota where he
studied with Tanya Remenikova, former assistant to Rostropovich at the Moscow
Conservatory.  Mr. Rogoff earned his B.M.
at Northwestern as a student of Hans Jensen in addition to a certificate in
music criticism from the Medill School of Journalism and a minor in French.

He
has studied chamber music with members of the Shanghai and Juilliard Quartets as a young
artist at the Hampden-Sydney and Kneisel Hall summer festivals.  Mr. Rogoff has concertized with principal
players of the New York Philharmonic.  He
has also performed with the United States Coast Guard Band and as frequent substitute
with the Minnesota Orchestra.  He is currently
the cellist of the UNK Faculty Piano Trio.

An
active supporter of new music, Mr. Rogoff performed Elliott Carter's Figment & Figment II for solo cello in the presence of the composer at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Center in the 2006
Contemporary Composers Festival.  He
performed at Symphony Space (New York)
in the 2009 American Composers' Alliance Festival.

Mr.
Rogoff was a winner of the prestigious Walter Judd Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. This funded his travel and
research on the cultural ties between Vienna
and the music of Arnold Schoenberg.  He
served as a research assistant to Michael Cherlin on his book Schoenberg's
Musical Imagination published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press.