About Francisco Noya: In addition to his role as the RI Philharmonic Orchestra’s resident conductor for the past 23 seasons, Francisco Noya is the music director and conductor of the New Philharmonia in Newton, and music director and conductor of the Boston Civic Symphony. An interpreter and educator with broad musical interests, and the knowledge and temperament to explore them, Mr. Noya is on the conducting faculty at the Berklee College of Music. From 2008 to 2017, he was the artistic director of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra. In that capacity, Mr. Noya led the Orchestra through a repertoire that not only included masterworks from the standard symphonic repertoire but also explored its potential in collaborations involving deejays and cutting-edge technology.
Mr. Noya began his professional career in his native Venezuela as conductor of the Youth Orchestra of Valencia, one of the original ensembles of an internationally admired educational and performing program that promotes social development through music. As a charter member of the program, Mr. Noya also has held masterclasses for young conductors and collaborated in the training of the youth orchestras.
After earning advanced degrees in composition and conducting from Boston University, Mr. Noya was appointed assistant conductor of the Caracas Philharmonic and assistant to the music director of the Teatro Teresa Carreño, one of the most important halls in Latin America. Upon his return to the United States, he served as music director of the Empire State Youth Orchestra in Albany. During his 10-year tenure, Mr. Noya led the group on two European tours as well as concerts at both Carnegie Hall in New York City and in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
Mr. Noya has served as music director of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston, and Symphony by the Sea in Manchester, Mass., and has appeared as guest conductor of the Boston Pops, Baltimore, Nashville, San Antonio and Omaha symphony orchestras. He has maintained a busy guest conducting schedule abroad, performing for the past five seasons with the Orquesta Académica of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as with orchestras in Brazil, Peru, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy and Russia. Mr. Noya currently resides in Providence.
