Noah Eastman

Co-Director of Recruitment

Noah Eastman is a current junior at the Eastman School of Music studying bassoon with George Sakakeeny. His previous teachers include Brad Behr and Raymond Patricio. Noah has performed with several ensembles at Eastman, including the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and Musica Nova. Noah has performed multiple times with the OSSIA New Music Ensemble, including being featured as a soloist. Noah’s woodwind quintet, the Lyra Winds, have performed in venues throughout Rochester and has been featured in the Eastman Honors Chamber Recital. Noah has spent his summers performing at the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, and Brevard Music Center. In the Summer of 2023, Poeppel was the conducting fellow of both the soundSCAPE festival (at the Hindemith Center in Blonay Switzerland) and the Mostly Modern Festival, as well as the music director of Rochester Summer Opera. At Mostly Modern, he served as cover conductor for William Langley on Robert Paterson’s In Real Life I/II & Extraordinary. Poeppel also made his cover debut (for Louis Karchin) with the Orchestra of the League of Composers (final season concert); he will return again to the OLC in the Summer of 2024.