Noa Mick is a French-based saxophonist, educator, and artistic director whose work focuses on contemporary music, interdisciplinary performance, and innovative approaches to audience engagement. Her artistic practice explores the dialogue between music, visual art, technology, movement, and architecture, creating performances that invite audiences to experience contemporary music in new and immersive ways.
As a performer, Noa collaborates with leading composers and contemporary music ensembles and appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a founding member of Duo Alto (flute and saxophone), Ensemble du Bout du Monde (saxophone quartet), and the LMC X-1 collective, founded in Strasbourg in 2023 with composer Giovanni Montiani. Through these ensembles and her independent projects, she develops both existing repertoire and new creations, with a particular interest in expanding the possibilities of the saxophone and creating meaningful connections between sound and other artistic disciplines.
With Duo Alto, she has developed immersive performances combining live music, visual art, and technology, including a recent creation with composer Omer Barash and visual artist Rony Ginosar, in which the music is interpreted and translated into live visual imagery. With LMC X-1, she is developing Ta beauté exigée par le monde futur, an immersive work for baritone saxophone and electronics. The project combines multichannel sound, individual bone-conduction headphones, and interactive LEDs responding in real time to the music. Set design by Thomas Köppel transforms the performance space into an environment where sound, light, and visuals interact, creating both collective and individual listening experiences.
Alongside her performing career, Noa has increasingly developed her work as an artistic director and project creator, initiating interdisciplinary projects that bring together music, cinema, visual arts, heritage, and new technologies. She is the founder of Horizons Culturels, a cultural association dedicated to developing artistic projects connected to culture and heritage. Through the association, she develops immersive and multidisciplinary projects that explore historical places and cultural heritage through contemporary artistic languages. Current projects include an immersive creation around the historic mikveh of Sélestat and the development of a large-scale musical and projection-mapping project at the Natzweiler-Struthof Memorial Site, combining original orchestral music, architecture, and monumental projections to create a respectful and powerful memorial experience.
Noa also regularly performs with the NoLimit Orchestra in France, specializing in immersive film and video game music performances, and with Klanglab in Switzerland, a collective dedicated to free improvisation and experimental performance. Her artistic activities extend to international collaborations, recordings, commissions, and educational projects.
She has performed at numerous festivals and venues across Europe and Israel, including the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, IRCAM and Selmer Paris, as well as festivals and concert venues in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Switzerland, and Israel. She has collaborated with ensembles including Ensemble Ulysse, Ensemble Meitar, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensemble neuverBand, and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and has worked with internationally recognized composers such as Peter Ablinger, Chaya Czernowin, and Georges Aperghis.
Alongside her artistic career, Noa is an experienced saxophone and chamber music educator, with more than ten years of teaching experience in Israel, France, and Switzerland. Since October 2023, she has held a full-time teaching position at the Conservatoire de Sarreguemines, where she teaches saxophone and chamber music. Her pedagogical approach combines strong instrumental training with an emphasis on contemporary repertoire, creativity, ensemble playing, and developing students' independence as musicians. Her experience as both a performer and project creator informs her teaching and allows her to connect traditional instrumental education with contemporary artistic practices.
Noa studied in Paris at PSPBB and the Sorbonne and completed two Master's degrees at the Hochschule für Musik Basel: one in contemporary music performance and another in music pedagogy. She studied with Gan Lev, Jean-Michel Goury, Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, and Marcus Weiss. Her artistic and academic work has been supported by scholarships and awards from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Eric Siday Scholarship of the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music, the Fondation Caisse de Bourses, and the Hochschule für Musik Basel.