Guy Noble

Guy Noble is an Australian musical composer, conductor, pianist and broadcaster.^[1]

Noble studied piano in the early 1980s at the Sydney Conservatorium. On a scholarship from the Australia Council he travelled to London where he worked for four years, including a stint as presenter on BBC Radio 3.^[2] In 1984, he was pianist in the Sydney Youth Orchestra and from 1984 to 1986 in the Australian Youth Orchestra.^[3] Noble was the inaugural recipient of the Brian Stacey Memorial Trust Award for emerging Australian conductors in 1998; the trust, in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, financed the composition and recording of Noble's Flute Concerto,^[4] written for Jane Rutter.^[5]

In 2022 he was appointed as the conductor and host of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.^[6]

Prior to that he conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide,^[7][8][9] West Australian,^[10] Tasmanian, Queensland and Canberra symphony orchestras, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic^[11] and Malaysian Philharmonic orchestras.^[12][13]

Noble has also conducted and presented concerts with performers including The Beach Boys, Yvonne Kenny, David Hobson, Ben Folds, Dianne Reeves, Randy Newman, Teddy Tahu Rhodes^[14] and Clive James.^[15]

He is the former host of the ABC Classic FM radio breakfast program.^[16][17][18]

He writes a regular column in Limelight magazine.^[19]