Kevin Noe is currently Visiting Professor and Director of Orchestras at the UMKC Conservatory, and the Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Theatre of Music.  A passionate promoter of the arts of our time, Noe has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works to date.

A passionate conducting teacher, Noe has held positions or worked extensively with the University of Texas at Austin, Michigan State University, The National Repertory Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Symphony, Duquesne University, The Pittsburgh Opera Young Artists program, SUNY Stonybrook, the Melbourne Conservatory, the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Jacobs School of Music. He has conducted honors orchestras in the U.S. including the MENC All Northeast and All Northwest orchestras, and All-State orchestras including Texas, California, Oregon, Michigan, Illinois.  He is a regular clinician on the art of score study and interpretation, and he is currently working on his first book on the subject.

He completed his graduate studies at Rice University, where he received the Sally Shepherd Perkins Prize in Music.  He was awarded the Maurice Abravanel Fellowship as a conductor at the Tanglewood Festival.  His principal conducting teacher was Larry Rachleff.