Noah K

Noah Flynn Kaplan (born September 11, 1984), known professionally as Noah K, is an American composer, saxophonist, and record producer. Early life and education K grew up in Topanga Canyon, California. During high school he performed jazz professionally throughout Los Angeles. In 2002, he composed and performed music on the ABC television series Once and Again. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Joe Maneri and Jerry Bergonzi. He was Maneri’s last student. After graduating, K moved to Brooklyn, New York, and traveled monthly to Framingham, Massachusetts for lessons in composition, theory, and improvisation with Maneri until Maneri’s death in 2009. K received an MFA in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2015 where his advisor was Steven Mackey. In 2018 he was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship from the Princeton University Graduate School. He has been the recipient of composition fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, he received a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University. He has been visiting professor of music and adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallati