Biography

“These are exceptional musicians who are wholly committed to advancing the cause of contemporary music.”

-New York Concert Review

Described as “compelling”, “highly energetic”, “fascinating”, and “oppressively loud” by New York Concert Review, Noise Catalogue is a contemporary music collective comprised of Dániel Matei (percussion), Dylan Ofrias (percussion), Arnav Shirodkar (percussion), Tara Khozein (voice), Gideon Broshy (keyboards), and Ethan Cohn (bass), in addition to the vast array of musicians and artists with whom they collaborate in their unique concert curations.
Noise Catalogue was founded upon a shared passion for bringing new musical works to life. Their work is centered around intimate collaborations with composers and creators in other mediums, and composing genre-fluid original works which explore the members’ rich array of musical influences as performer-composers. The ensemble maintains a busy performance schedule at venues such as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, CUNY Grad Center, the Tenri Cultural Institute of NYC, the New School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Sō Percussion Studio, and Bito Performance Space at the Bard Conservatory. They have been awarded grant funding from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, and were winners of the 2023 Dwight & Ursula Mamlok Junior prize, awarded to individuals or ensembles making a significant contribution to the performance of contemporary music. Recent performance highlights for the ensemble include performing at the Overdrive Festival, playing double bill concerts with the Rhythm Method Quartet, and medium in New York City, being featured on the ‘Sō Laboratories’ concert series in Brooklyn, performing in the Evolution: Classical Festival in Banff, Canada, and collaborating with composers Tobias Fandel,Thomas Palmer, Bahar Royaee, and visual artist Knox Peters on an interdisciplinary concert program. Noise Catalogue appears on two albums. distant: violin. sound by Reiko Füting, and Shahar Regev’s upcoming Paradigm.