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Noble is an internationally acclaimed conductor as well as a music educator. His distinguished career includes conducting more than 900 music festivals throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, Russia, Asia, and South America. The venues include Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Music Center, Chicago Orchestra Hall, the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, and the Bolshoi, Kremlin and Tchaikovsky Halls in Moscow. He is the only director to have led all-state choruses, bands and orchestras in all fifty states.
In 2006 Noble was guest director of a choir partly made up of Nordic Choir alumni. This choir had a two-week concert tour of Europe and was in residence at the Salzburg Festival part of that time. From that tour was formed the WESTON NOBLE ALUMNI CHOIR - a 70 voice choir that meets on the campus of Luther College every summer for a week of rehearsals and a performance. The WESTON NOBLE ALUMNI CHOIR has since then made a return to Europe in 2010 for a two week concert tour and will be doing a west coast tour in summer of 2012. This organization may be reached at - www.westonnoblealumnichoir.org
In the spring of 2006, he conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a national radio broadcast. He also received the Distinguished Service Award from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making him the only non-Mormon to ever receive this award. In June 2006, he was once again the guest conductor at Guam's 3rd Annual Pacific Summer Music Festival. Most recently he guest conducted the JMU ACDA Choral Fest.
In December, 2010, at the age of 88 years old, Noble traveled to South Korea (for the first time), to conduct a concert of Handel's "Messiah" for the Camarata Music Company.
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