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Noah Hogan is a twenty-two-year-old professional guitarist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Durham, NC, Noah's family moved to Ann Arbor, MI when he was four years old, where he immediately began taking private music lessons with Alex Johnson at the Ann Arbor Music Center. Too small to properly hold a guitar, he began on ukulele, before growing into the guitar at age six. Through the Music Center's Rock Band program, Noah began performing around the Ann Arbor area when he was nine years old with the band The Infernal Chimps, at venues including Detroit's Hard Rock Cafe and various local festivals, and recorded a pair of singles with the singer-songwriter Molly Wing.Noah was introduced to jazz music during high school, when he joined Ann Arbor Community High School's award-winning jazz program. Guided by director Jack Wagner, he began to listen to the likes of Wes Montgomery and Pat Metheny, and he quickly fell in love with the music and set his focus to studying that tradition. Through the jazz program, he also had the opportunity to gig around the city with his ensembles. In the summer of 2018, he attended the Berklee Summer Guitar Sessions on a scholarship for jazz guitar, and there he received a full tuition scholarship to the 2019 Berklee 5-Week Performance Intensive. He was also one of seven students across the state of Michigan selected into the premier University of Michigan Jazz Ambassadors Program in 2019, where he and the ensemble studied with Umich faculty and guest artist John Clayton, before performing at the Blue Llama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor. During his Junior year, his ensemble won Best Combo at the 2019 Western Michigan University Jazz Invitational, and he was cited as an Outstanding Soloist, and in his senior year, his ensemble won an Outstanding Performance Award in the 43rd Annual International Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards (2020).During his time at High School, Noah was also very active in the Indie music scene of Ann Arbor, performing and recording with groups such as Present Company, The Left Lanes, The Major 7, and Prophecy, spanning styles from R&B and funk, to indie rock and punk. Most notably, he performed on the main stage at the 2019 Ann Arbor Summer Festival with The Left Lanes, and at the Live on Washington festival on multiple occasions with both Present Company and The Left Lanes. He also recorded two full length albums with these groups—Present Company (2018) and Leave It (2019)—released under the label Youth Owned Records, as well as more independent singles.In 2020, Noah began his undergraduate degree at New York University, on a scholarship for the Jazz Studies program. While there, he had the opportunity to study with luminaries and heroes of his, including John Scofield, Chris Potter, Peter Bernstein, Lenny White, Wayne Krantz, Brad Shepik, Adam Rogers, Alan Ferber, Ari Hoenig, Rogério Boccato, and Billy Drewes. Under the guidance of these masters, he performed, recorded, and honed his craft, exploring new sounds and approaches to his instrument and the music. In 2022, he had opportunity to study in Paris, France, under the guitarist Sandro Zerafa, and performed alongside an ensemble of fellow NYU jazz students at the prestigious jazz clubs Le Duc Des Lombards, and Sunset/Sunside. While at NYU, Noah also began exploring the world of Broadway, filling the guitar chair in NYU's Broadway Orchestra, and playing in various off-Broadway productions and cabarets.Since graduating in 2024, Noah maintained an active presence in the New York City and Ann Arbor music scenes. He leads his own quartet, performing at the Blue LLama Jazz Club, and various venues in NYC, as well as a jazz trio providing entertainment for private events around the city. He is the regular guitarist for Alt Pop/Rock band Colorjoy, playing at venues such as the Mercury Lounge, Arlene's Grocery, and Crossroads, and he often plays with—and recently went on tour with—the high-energy funk-rock band Summer Fling, at venues such as Stephen Talkhouse, Famous Food Festival, and Baby's All Right. He also provides guitar for various other artists and settings, including church services, and musical productions and Off-Broadway Cabarets. Most recently, Noah has undergone a deep exploration of Brazilian music, especially samba and MPB. While at NYU, he was guided by renowned percussionist Rogério Boccato, who introduced him to the music of Milton Nascimento, Toninho Horta, Joyce, Hermeto Pascoal, and many other brilliant Brazilian musicians. Inspired, he began arranging songs by these artists for his own quartet and digging deeper and deeper into the world of Brazilian music. In 2025, Noah received a prestigious Fulbright Award to Brazil, funding a period of independent study in Rio de Janeiro in 2025 and 2026. From this time in Brazil, Noah hopes to gain a deeper understanding of the many styles and rhythms of Brazilian music, in order to marry it with his own background in his compositions and arrangements.

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"Things Best Left Behind" | Noah Hogan Quartet (feat. Rowan Tucker-Meyer, Jake Lee, Jesse Kramer)
Live at the Blue LLama Jazz Club

"Between Us" | Noah Hogan Quartet (feat. Rowan Tucker-Meyer, Jake Lee, Jesse Kramer)
Live at the Blue LLama Jazz Club

"Nascente" (Flávio Venturini & Murilo Antunes) | NHQ (feat. Rowan Tucker-Meyer, Jake Lee, Jesse Kramer)
Live at the Blue Llama Jazz Club

"Lawns" (Carla Bley) | Noah Hogan Quartet (feat. Rowan Tucker-Meyer, Jake Lee, Jesse Kramer)
Live at the Blue LLama Jazz Club

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