Noah performs on Show 455.

Noah Ferris (cello), 18, hails from Amherst, Massachusetts, where he attends Amherst Regional High School and is regional director of the Back to Bach Project. He studies cello with Astrid Schween at Juilliard Pre-College. Noah began learning cello with Nicole Fizznoglia when he was 5. He has been a member of the Juilliard High School Chorus since 2021 and served as principal cellist of the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony in spring 2022 and 2023. As laureate of the Thomas Schwab Memorial Competition, Noah performed the Victor Herbert Cello Concerto No. 2 with the Holyoke Civic Symphony in 2023. He won second prize in the 2023 UMass Young Artists Awards and third prize in the 2024 Harvard Musical Association High School Achievement Awards. Noah was also a finalist in the 2023 Zodiac International Competition and the 2021 and 2023 Lyra Music Youth Competition. An avid chamber musician, Noah was a founding member of the Aster Trio, which earned the silver medal at the 2023 Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, TX. He has participated in numerous summer festivals across New England, such as Bowdoin International Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Greenwood Music Camp, Kinhaven Music School, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. His mentors include Paul Katz, Edward Arron, and Julia Lichten. In his free time, Noah enjoys reading, travel, and making music with family and friends.

Orli has joined From the Top as Guest Host on Show 420, Show 422,  Show 404, Show 405, Show 390, Show 389, Show 379, Show 380, and Show 361.

A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety, and brilliance, the pianist Orli Shaham is hailed by critics on four continents. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist,” The Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean,” and London’s Guardian said Ms. Shaham’s playing at the Proms was “perfection.”

Orli Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and has appeared in recital internationally, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007 and was Artist in Residence at Vancouver Symphony (USA) in 2022-2024.

Highlights of Ms. Shaham’s 2024-2025 concert season include performances of concertos written for her by David Robertson with Utah Symphony and by Steven Mackey at Tanglewood, and the Beethoven Triple Concerto with her brother, violinist Gil Shaham. Chamber recitals across the country include Dumbarton Oaks, Music at Menlo, La Jolla, and more.

In 2024, Orli Shaham released the final volumes of the complete piano sonatas by Mozart to high critical acclaim. Her discography includes over a dozen titles on Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, Canary Classics and other labels. Orli Shaham is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is a Co-Host and Creative for the national radio program From the Top. She is also Artistic Director of the interactive children’s concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010, and is chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center.

Orli Shaham is a Steinway Artist

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