Ken Noda

Pianist Ken Noda is Assistant to Music Director James Levine on the artistic administration team of the Metropolitan Opera. He began working there in 1991 after he retired from a full-time performing career as a concert pianist. Ken Noda studied with Daniel Barenboim and performed as soloist with such orchestras as the Berlin, Vienna, New York, Israel, and Los Angeles philharmonics, under such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Chailly, Kubelík, Levine, Mehta, Ozawa, and Previn. He has also collaborated as a chamber musician with James Levine (at two pianos), Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Nigel Kennedy, and the Emerson String Quartet.