NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY, Violin

Noah Bendix-Balgley enjoys a wide-ranging musical life as a violinist. He is First Concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker and tours both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. His clear and heartfelt personal sound has moved listeners around the world. Recent highlights include his debut at Carnegie Hall as featured soloist on the Berliner Philharmoniker USA tour, a tour of Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and concerto appearances with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Dresden, Buffalo, Auckland, and Nagoya. He has also performed with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Shanghai, Guangzhou, Utah, Quebec, and Royal Danish

Orchestras. 2024/25 season highlights include debuts with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon. 

Noah’s album Mozart/Sinigaglia with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic was released in June 2024 to critical acclaim. A renowned performer of klezmer music, Noah composed and premiered his own klezmer violin concerto, Fidl-Fantazye, in 2016 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and he has performed the work more than a dozen times around the world. 

A passionate chamber musician, he is a member of the Rosamunde String Quartet and the multi-genre ensemble Philharmonix. Recent festival appearances include the Seattle Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest and the Aix- en-Provence Festival. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Noah graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Munich Hochschule. He was a laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and won top prizes at the Long-Thibaud Competition in France and the Postacchini Competition in Italy.