Charles Noble, viola

Charles has been Assistant principal violist of the Oregon Symphony since 1995.

Prizes and awards received include the C.D. Jackson Award at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Israel Dorman String Prize at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and first prize at the Seattle Ladies Musical Club Competition.

He holds degrees from the University of Puget Sound, the University of Maryland, and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Charles was a member of the faculty at the inaugural 1998 National Youth Orchestra Festival, and is co-founder of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute serving on its faculty from 1990 to 2010.

He has conducted master classes in orchestral audition preparation at the University of Nevada at Reno and as a writer he has published two articles in the The Strad magazine.

Mr. Noble was one of three American violists invited to tour Japan with an orchestra whose roster included members of the Vienna and New York Philharmonic orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras.

He has been principal violist with the Ernest Bloch and the Cascade Festival of Music, and is currently co-principal violist of the Sunriver Music Festival. He was also an artist-presenter at the 2002, 2004 and 2006 International Viola Congresses.

Charles was previously a founding member of the acclaimed Ethos Quartet.