UPDATE!
BLIND BEALS ISLAND TENOR WINS
FROM THE TOP’S JACK KENT COOKE YOUNG ARTIST AWARD
$10,000 Award Will Purchase Equipment and Software for Braille Notation, Translation, Composition, and Printing
18-year-old tenor Noah Carver from Beals Island, Maine has won From the Top’s Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, a national award of up to $10,000 for extraordinary young musicians. As part of the award, he will appear on an upcoming broadcast of NPR’s From the Top, airing on Maine Public Radio, Saturday, June 4 at 5pm. The broadcast features performances and interviews with outstanding young musicians hosted by pianist Peter Dugan.
UPDATE! Noah Carver’s episode of From the Top airs on Maine Public Classical, Saturday June 4 at 5PM.Where to Hear Maine Public Classical: https://www.mainepublic.org/where-to-hear-maine-public-classical
Noah is currently a senior at Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine. A From the Top Fellow, Noah has performed with numerous choirs, including the NAfME 2022 All-National Honor Ensembles Concert Choir, the 2021 All-Eastern Honor Ensembles Mixed Choir, 2020 High School Honors Performance Series Concert Choir – at Carnegie Hall, and the 2019-2022 MMEA All State SATB Honor Choirs. In 2018, he performed John Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the Ellsworth Community Music Institute Youth Chorus and Bagaduce Chorale, and that same year, he had the opportunity to perform the role of Sparrow in the children’s opera Brundibár by Hans Krása with the Eastport Arts Center. Since 2010, Noah has been a Washington County Children’s Chorus member, performing at Notre-Dame de Paris during one of two tours of France with that same ensemble.
A current student of voice teacher Gary Magby, pianist Paul Sullivan, and music teacher Bonnie Atkinson, Noah will begin his undergraduate studies in vocal performance at the Eastman School of Music in the fall of 2022.
Born blind, Noah lives a rich and active life. Among his many pursuits, Noah enjoys riding horseback, running cross-country, is a passionate accessibility advocate, and an avid alpine skier who serves as a Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation ambassador, helping train volunteers on guiding skiers who are blind and visually impaired.
Receiving the Award will allow Noah to support his music education by purchasing equipment and software to aid in braille notation, translation, composition, and printing. This will allow him to have the tools he needs to carry him through into the professional field, and support his goals as a performer, composer, and arranger.
On the From the Top broadcast, Noah performs Music for a While by Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) with pianist Gary Magby, recorded at The Record Company in Boston.