Noa Sarid

violin

Noa Sarid is an Israeli violinist and chamber musician. She is the first violinist of the Dior Quartet, bronze medalist of the 46th Fischoff National Chamber Competition (2019) and First Prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition (2019). Coached by the Pacifica Quartet, the Dior Quartet also studied with members of the Alban Berg, St. Lawrence, Danish, Artemis, Ébène, and Belcea Quartets.

Noa is the recipient of various scholarships and awards, such as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the UNO Competition (Second prize, 2013). As a soloist, Noa toured in Israel and Europe with The Symphonette Ra’anana and The Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestras. Noa participated in The Aspen Music Festival and School as a full scholarship recipient.

As a chamber musician, Noa is a Naxos Records artist (2020) and a four-time winner of the Jerusalem Academy of Music Chamber Competition (2015-2018).

Noa is committed to advocating social justice through music. She took part in the Musethica International Chamber Music Festival in 2017, performing in hospitals, shelters for survivors of domestic violence, prisons, and schools for children with special needs. As part of her military service, Noa toured Israel with the Israel Defense Forces String Quartet, delivering lecture-recitals in army bases.

Noa holds a master’s degree in Violin Performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she currently pursues her studies for a Chamber Music Performer Diploma with the Dior Quartet, the school’s Fellow Graduate String Quartet. Noa’s violin mentors include Simin Ganatra, Roi Shiloah, and Nava Milo.