Noah Turner Rogoff, Cello

Noah Turner Rogoff (N.T.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.