Timothy Noble
Distinguished Professor of Music (Voice)
Contact Information:
trnoble
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(trnoble@indiana.edu)
Music Addition, MA156
Department
Education
- M.M., Indiana University, 1981
- B.M., Indiana University, 1977
Biography
Baritone Timothy Noble has enjoyed an international career spanning 44 years, performing leading roles at major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera Company, La Fenice in Venice, Netherlands Opera Santa Fe Opera, and the Glyndebourne Festival. He has performed in concert with the London Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Ravinia Festival, to name a few. He toured with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians for seven years, has appeared on Broadway, and received a Grammy nomination for his performance as Harold Hill on the Telarc recording of The Music Man with the Cincinnati Pops under conductor Erich Kunzel.
Noble is now beginning his eleventh year at the Jacobs School of Music and was elevated to Distinguished Professor in 2004. He serves as vocal trainer/coach for the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble program and is the founder and director of the Charley Creek Vocal Workshop held each June in Wabash, Ind. He is also in demand as an adjudicator and clinician throughout North America.
Noble's students have won the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions at the District, Regional, Semi-final, and Grand Finals, the Palm Beach Vocal Competition, the George London Competition, the Bel Canto Competition, the Orpheus Competition, and the Matinee Musicale Competition. During the summer of 2009, his student Jordan Bisch won the second prize of $20,000 at Placido Domingo's Operalia International Competition.
Noble's students hold or have held positions with virtually every young artist program in North America, including the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera Merola and Adler programs, and Santa Fe Opera. His students have gone on to appear in major roles with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Omaha, Indianapolis Opera, Sarasota Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, and Virginia Opera.