Noah Bendix-Balgley

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Noah Bendix-Balgley (born July 15, 1984) is an American classical violinist. He is currently First Concertmaster with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He served as concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2014. Noah Bendix-Balgley was born on July 15, 1984, in Asheville, North Carolina. He began playing the violin at age four. He attended the Crowden School in Berkeley, California, and was concertmaster in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He then went on to study with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where he worked with pedagogue Ana Chumachenco. He plays a 1732 Bergonzi violin that had previously been owned by Nigel Kennedy. Bendix-Balgley has won prizes in a number of competitions. In 2008, he won third prize, together with a special prize for creativity, at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, and he was a laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.