Noah Plotkin, Founder / Music Director

Bringing the world together through music.

Noah was born and raised on Chicago’s North Shore into a loving family who appreciates and supports the arts as a vocation of which to be proud. At the age of four Noah began playing drums however his mother Robin is quite certain he was keeping time in utero during a Pat Metheny Group concert a month before he was born. Remarkably, beginning at age 13, Noah’s first private drum teacher was Paul Wertico - the Grammy Award winning drummer for the Pat Metheny Group - who was playing that very evening when Robin first felt Noah's rhythmic movement. Noah’s commitment and participation in every school band from middle school through high school resulted in his being awarded the Benny Goodman Prize for excellence upon graduation. At the Berklee College of Music, Noah was quickly introduced to a wider range of percussion styles, techniques and musical expression through his studies with legendary musicians such as John Blackwell (Prince), Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), Kenwood Dennard (Herbie Hancock, Whitney Houston), Skip Hadden (Weather Report)  Dave Dicenso (groove) & Scott McCormick ( Music Theory & Piano Studies)

Throughout his life Noah has recognized the power of music to unite people of all ages and backgrounds to build strong and sustainable communities. He believes that music is a universal language that reaches across all cultural and demographic boundaries. It is in this spirit that Noah hopes to bring awareness of rhythmic music as a complimentary tool to enable people of all ages to create and maintain good health.

Noah Plotkin is a professionally trained Drum Set Performance and World Percussion musician who is a 2007 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has collaborated as a percussionist with a number of notable institutions in the United States and abroad including Emerson College, Boston College, The Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel, The Martha Graham Dance Conservatory, Sala Crisantempo School of Dance in Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil, The Amsterdam Theatre School of Dance, The Parkinson's Project at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Lou Conte Chicago and the Northwestern University & Columbia College dance programs. Noah is currently in his tenth year as percussionist for Congregation Am Shalom in Glencoe, IL, first year as percussionist at Congregation BJBE in Deerfield, IL, eleventh year working as a free lance event producer and booking agent for all sorts of private and municipality clients organizing music festivals and special events, 2nd year working as a concert manager at the legendary venue, Evanston Space, private drum teacher, music educator and valued member of many different Chicago area world music, rock, blues, funk, pop and jazz ensembles including Imperial Boxmen , Railheart, Fur Mountain & The Gold Coast All Stars all based in Chicago, IL. Noah is also available to tour & record for hire!