Curriculum Vitae

AARON NOË

CURRICULUM VITAE



EDUCATION  


Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

M.M. in Music Education with emphasis on Jazz, 2005 


University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 

Graduate Studies in Music Education and Jazz, 1997-1998

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Jazz Studies Department 


Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC 

B.S. in Music Education, 1997 



CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE


Burlington Sock Puppets (MiLB Team) All-Star Pep Band, 2022 & 2023 Seasons

Band Director

This band is primarily comprised of high school and college students from around the greater Burlington region. Responsibilities include: Selecting repertoire to enhance fan experience, selecting repertoire related to game-day themes & promotions, arranging music for the band, recruiting musicians, rehearsing musicians, directing game-day performances.


Mid-Atlantic Wind Symphony, 2010 – 2018

Music Director

Inaugural Performance, May 22, 2010

This ensemble is comprised of music professionals, including military band members, professional performers, and band directors from throughout the greater Fredericksburg region.


New Music Premiers:

Rappahannock Youth Symphony, 2016 – 2018

Conductor of Symphony (Full Orchestra)

http://www.rysymphony.org

Rappahannock Summer Music Camp, 2005 – 2018 

Director of Bands & Jazz Ensemble, Brass Faculty

www.RSMusicCamp.com


University of Mary Washington Concert Band, 2017

Guest Conductor



TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION


Adjunct Faculty, Trumpet Instructor, 2007-2010

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

Classes Taught:


Graduate Teaching Assistant, Jazz, 1997-1998 

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 

Duties included directing a College Jazz Ensemble, Administrative Duties



TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS


Director of Bands, 2022 – Present 

Graham High School, Graham, NC

Ensembles: Concert Band, Marching Band, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion 


Director of Bands, 2020 – 2022

Orange High School, Hillsborough, NC

Ensembles: Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Band, Jazz Ensemble, Colorguard, Percussion Ensemble

Additional Teaching Responsibilities: Jazz Improvisation


Director of Bands, 2010 – 2016

Riverbend High School, Fredericksburg, VA

Ensembles: Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Marching Band, Pep Band, Jazz Ensemble, Brass ensemble.

Additional Teaching Responsibilities: Jazz Improvisation, AP Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Percussion Ensemble


Director of Bands, 2002 – 2010 

King George High School, King George, VA 

Ensembles: Concert Band, Marching Band, Pep Band, Jazz Ensemble 

Additional Teaching Responsibilities: Jazz Improvisation, AP Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Percussion Ens.

 Other duties included: Choir (Beginning and Select), Middle School Bands (7th and 8th 

Grades) and General Music for Special Education (TMR) 


Music Teacher, 1999-2002 

Central High School, King & Queen Courthouse, VA 

Ensembles: Concert Band, Choir, 

Additional Teaching Responsibilities: General Music, Music Appreciation 


Middle School Band Director/Assistant HS Band Director, 1998-1999 

Chesterfield Middle School/Chesterfield High School, Chesterfield, SC 

Middle School duties included: Band (Grades 6-8), General Music (Grade 6) 

High School Duties included: Assistant Director of Marching Band, Director of Jazz 




ADDITIONAL TRAINING


University of North Texas Conductors Collegium, Denton, TX

Full Conducting Experience, 2015

Conducting Faculty: Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Dennis Fisher

Conducting Concert Performance Selection: Three World Winds, Mvt. III. With rubato (a joyous ceremony at first), by Carter Pann


Shenandoah University Conducting Symposium, Winchester, VA

Full Conducting Participant, 2014

Conducting Faculty: Mallory Thompson, Damon Talley, Tim Robblee, Shanti Simon




ADJUDICATION EXPERIENCE


Youth Education in the Arts, Allentown, PA

USBANDS (Marching Band Circuit)

Captions include: Overall Music, Individual Music, Overall Effect, Overall Visual


2023 Southington HS, Southington, CT

Naugatuck, HS Naugatuck, CT

Bridgewater-Raynham HS, Bridgewater, MA

Perkomien Valley HS, Collegeville, PA

Mechanicburg HS, Mechanicsburg, PA


2022 USBANDS Goliad HS Showcase and Clinic, Goliad, TX

2020 USBANDS Adjudication Advisory Committee, Panelist

USBANDS Virtual Adjudication Assignments:

   Individual - Brass

  Ensemble Music – Brass

Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association Jazz Assessment

Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association Solo & Ensemble


2019 Pennsylvania Regional Championships

Mount Olive High School, Mount Olive, NJ

Piscataway High School, Piscataway, NJ

Southington High School, Southington, CT


2018 Marine Corps Invitational, Annapolis, MD

Maryland State Championships, Towson University, MD

Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, Ijamsville, MD

Arundel High School, Gambrills, MD

Martinsburg High School, Martinsburg, WV

Paint Branch High School, Burtonsville, MD

2017 Pennsylvania Regional Competition, Philadelphia, PA

Chopticon High School, Morganza, MD

Monroe Township High School, Monroe Township, NJ


2016 South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, NJ

Saverna Park High School, Saverna Park, MD



RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


WorldStrides Performing Arts, January 2018 – 2020

International Concert Tours Specialist & Marching Band Event Manager

Responsibilities include developing new business relationships with high school and collegiate music educators and maintaining relationships with existing clients.


Special Projects & Roles:


Fire & Ice Music Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

• Director liaison

• Student coordinator/chaperone

• Stage crew

• MC for Finale Performance


Conference Team Member and Team Lead

• TMEA Conference, Midwest Clinic, Southwest Conference (TX), ACDA National Conference

New Business Relationship - Site Evaluation

• Mountain Spring Festival, Banff, CAN

• Onsite evaluation of current festival and reported findings to director of division


Harmony Project (New Business Development)

• Subject Matter Expert (SME)


Holiday Bowl Halftime Show, San Diego, CA

• Assistant Event Director



RELATED CHURCH MUSIC EXPERIENCE


Music Director, 2017-2018

Salem Baptist Church

Choir Director & Worship Leader


Music Director, 2016-2017

Christ Crossman United Methodist Church

Ensembles: Praise Band, Choir

Played Piano & Guitar for services


Music Director, 2001 – 2013

Mine Road Baptist Church, Spotsylvania, VA 

Choir Director, Service Music Director 

Played Piano, Guitar & Trumpet for services


Interim Music Co-Director, 1999 

First Baptist Church, Monroe, NC 

Ensembles: Youth Choir, Adult Handbell Ensemble, and Youth Handbell Ensemble.


PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE (TRUMPET & CONDUCTING)

Aaron Noë Jazz Orchestra (2006 - Present) Freddie Cole (1998)

Aaron Noë Jazz Combos (1996 - Present) Jimmy Dorsey Big Band  (1996-98)

Eric Marienthal (2009) James Moody (2007)

Rex Richardson (2005, 2016, Conductor) The Okayssions (1997-99)

Slide Hampton (1994) Jimmy Heath (1995)

Roger Pemberton (1996) Benjie Porecki (2004-08)

Keith Wesby (Various Recording Sessions) Trinity Brass Ensemble (1996-97)

Classical and Solo Jazz Performances (1992- Present)

Quantico Marine Band (2014 Guest Soloist, 2015 Guest Conductor)

University of Mary Washington Faculty Brass Ensemble (2009- 2010)

University of Mary Washington Faculty Jazz Ensemble (2007- 2010)

University of Mary Washington Faculty Brass Ensemble (2017)

University of Mary Washington Philharmonic, Guest Soloist (2019)


GRADUATE PROJECT


Recommended Solos for Jazz Transcription: A Survey of Jazz Musicians and Jazz Educators.  Virginia Commonwealth University. 2005


Faculty Advisor: Dr. Antonio Garcia


The project consisted of a survey submitted to over four hundred eighty-five jazz musicians and educators requesting them to recommend solos for jazz students to transcribe. The goal of the project was to develop a list of recommended solos categorized by instrument and difficulty for use by the jazz educator in a classroom situation. The survey yielded a response of 5.6% with an average recommendation of four solos from each respondent. 



PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS


WindConductor.org

Writer, Editor, Web Designer

WindConductor.org is an online resource for band directors and jazz educators.  Articles topics include classroom management, conducting techniques, teaching tips and wind band repertoire analysis. 

Books & Band Methods – Aamano Music, Inc.

2021 – Mastering the Scales, 2nd Ed.


2020 – Mastering the Scales


2017 – WARM UP: Exercises for Superior Marching Performance


2015 – Grading & Assessment in the Performance-Based Music Classroom


2014 – 12 Keys In 12 Weeks: A Journey for Band Through the Cycle of Fourths


2013 - BAND CAMP ACTIVITIES A Director's Resource for Relays, Noncompetitive Activities, Ice Breakers, & Fundraisers



COMPOSITIONS & ARRANGEMENTS


WIND ENSEMBLE


Alamo March, Henry Fillmore (Wind Band, 2023 Aamano Music)

All Through the Night (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

American Folk Song Suite (Wind Band, 2022, Unpublished)

Ballad of the Spanish Cavalier (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Boccacio, Von Suppe (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Civil Rights: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and His Journey Through 1963 (Wind Band, 2016 Aamano Music)

Dark Star (Wind Band, 2023 Aamano Music)

Fantasy On A Christmas Hymn (Wind Band, 2015 Aamano Music)

Fugue on a Theme by Correlli, J.S. Bach(Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Hark! Angels from on High (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Headway March, Fillmore (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming (Wind Band, 2016 Aamano Music)

My Father’s World: A Fantasy on An Old American Hymn (Wind Band, 2022, Unpublished)

Polonaise for Military Band, Ludwig van Beethoven (Wind Band Transcription, 2022 Unpublished)

Pomp & Circumstance, Theme from Elgar (Small Concert Band, 2021 Aamano Music)

Radetzky March, Strauss (Wind Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Russian Folk Songs (Wind Band, 2017 Aamano Music)

Shall We Gather at the River, Fillmore (Wind Band, 2017 Aamano Music)

Shepherd’s Hey,  Grainger(Flex Band Arrangement, 2022 Aamano Music)

Songs for Caroling (Mixed Instrumentation, 2015 Aamano Music)

Songs for Caroling, Too! (Mixed Instrumentation, 2017 Aamano Music)

The Sorceress, Losey(Wind Band, 2013 Aamano Music)

Time Machine (Wind Band, 2017 Aamano Music)


MARCHING & PEP BAND ARRANGEMENTS & EXERCISES


All I Do Is Win – DJ Khaled (Sock Puppets Pep Band Arrangement, 2022 Unpublished)

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon (Competitive Marching Band, 2021 Unpublished)

Changes – Tupac (Arrangement for Virtual Marching Band, 2020 Unpublished)

ESPN Theme - (Sock Puppets Pep Band Arrangement, 2022 Unpublished)

Enter Sandman – Metallica (Sock Puppets Band Arrangement, 2023 Unpublished)

Gangnam Style – PSY (Stand Tune Arrangement, 2012 Unpublished)

Happy – Pharrell Williams (Stand Tune Arrangement, 2014 Unpublished)

Here and Now – Luther Vandross (Competitive Marching Band, 2021 Unpublished)

Joy Revisited – Frank Ticheli (Competitive Marching Band, 2021 Unpublished)

Low Rider – WAR (Sock Puppets Band Arrangement, 2023 Unpublished)

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon – Brain Damage (Competitive Marching Band, 2013 Unpublished)

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon – Breathe (Competitive Marching Band, 2013 Unpublished)

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon – Money (Competitive Marching Band, 2013 Unpublished)

R.O.C.K. in the USA (Sock Puppets Pep Band Arrangement, 2022 Unpublished)

Stand Chants: Traditional Call & Response Cheers (Marching Band, 2012 Aamano Music)

Star Spangled Banner (Small Marching Band, 2013 Aamano Music)

Star Spangled Banner (Sock Puppets Band Arrangement, 2022 Aamano Music)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Sock Puppets Band Arrangement, 2023 Unpublished)

WARM UP: Exercises for Superior Marching Performance (Marching Band, 2017 Aamano Music)

Water (Drowning) – A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (Stand Tune Arrangement, 2022 Unpublished)

Aaron Noë, P.7


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PAST & PRESENT


National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

North Carolina Bandmasters Association (NCBA)

Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA)

Virginia Band & Orchestra Directors Association (VBODA)

The Conductor’s Guild (CG)

International Trumpet Guild (ITG)



COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP


School Improvement Team

Graham High School, 2022-Present 


School Improvement Phase V Chair 

King George High School, 2003 

Chair the culminating phase of the school improvement plan for accreditation by SACS. 


School Improvement Team

King George High School, 2010 



CONFERENCE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATIONS


North Carolina Band Directors Jazz Ensemble (Trumpet)

North Carolina Music Educators Association Annual Conference – 2021, 2022, 2023

Winston Salem, NC


Conference Performance of Composition, Time Machine 

Midwest Clinic, Chicago, IL - December 2017

New Music Reading Session


Grading & Assessment in the Performance-Based Music Classroom

Professional Development Presentations

Richmond City Schools (VA), August 2016

Northampton Public Schools (VA), August 2016

Charlottesville City Schools (VA), November 2016

Trumbull County Schools (OH), September 2017


Recommended Solos for Jazz Transcription

Clinic Presentation, 2007

Virginia Music Educators Association In-Service Conference

Norfolk, Virginia


PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT


VBODA All-Virginia Jazz Ensemble Auditions Chair, 2008- 2011

Coordinator audition recording sites, adjudication process, and result tabulation. 


VBODA District XV Jazz Festival, 2005- 2016

Site Host and Coordinator.