Hailed as a “highly skillful and an even more highly adventurous player” (Washington City Paper) with “virtuosity, sensitivity, and beauty of tone” (Fanfare), Noah Getz has performed and lectured worldwide, including appearances at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Brussels, The Polish Woodwind Festival, the Degollado Theater in Guadalajara, Mexico, Day of New Music Festival in Düsseldorf, and Zero Point Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. His premiere of in every way I remember you at the National Gallery of Art was acclaimed as “spectacular and wonderfully provocative” (Washington Post).

An avid chamber musician, Getz is a member of the National Gallery New Music Ensemble, Zohn Collective, and Interference/Intermedia, and has performed with The 21st Century Consort, PostClassical Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble. He received a first-round Grammy nomination with the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet.

Getz’s albums Crosscurrents, exploring the intersection of jazz and classical music, and Still Life were released to rave reviews and are available through Albany Records. His most recent album, The Salon Sessions, was called “a virtuosic performance” (The Saxophonist Magazine) and is available on Tonsehen Records. He has also been featured on Amy Williams’ Cineshape and Duos, Fernando Benadon’s delight/delirium, and Ricardo Zohn Muldoon’s Songtree.

Getz is committed to commissioning and premiering new works. He has worked with Chick Corea on his Sonata-Florida and commissioned Chris Potter to write In Time for Soprano Saxophone and Piano. In 2016, Grammy-Award winning composer Stephen Hartke wrote Willow Run, a new concerto for saxophone which Getz premiered at Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The recording was integrated into a contemporary film by Ernestine Ruben using spatial recording techniques and premiered at the University of Michigan Art Museum.

Getz has composed and arranged numerous solo and chamber works for the saxophone. In 2022, he will premiere Concerto for Bansuri, Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra with the Capital City Symphony in Washington, DC. His book Stratosphere: Altissimo Etudes for the Saxophone is published by Schott Music and his saxophone ensemble arrangement, Finale from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), has been performed around the world. He has also written chamber works for the saxophone including African Dance Suite for Soprano Saxophone, Guitar, and Percussion Ensemble and regularly composes and arranges for his ensemble, The World Music Collective, a sextet of musicians from diverse backgrounds that live near Washington, DC.

He has presented masterclasses, recitals, and lectures across the country, including at Peabody Conservatory, Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music, Mannes–The New School of Music, The Crane School of Music, and Florida State University. He is a Musician-In-Residence at American University in Washington, DC.