Jeff has performed with a wide variety of Early Music Ensembles across the Midwest as well as with modern ensembles performing early repertoire. These performances include operas, oratorios, cantatas and vespers with large ensembles like the St. Louis Symphony, Louisville's Bourbon Baroque, the Madison Early Music Festival and the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana.
In addition, Jeff appears regularly with early music chamber ensembles ranging from duos to quintets. These groups feature some of the Midwest's finest Early Music performers with training and performing experience across this country and Europe. Jeff has performed with the following ensembles on concert series and university campuses across the Midwest and up and down the Eastern seaboard. These ensembles are available for concerts as well as lecture/demonstrations, ensemble coaching, master classes and private lessons.
Since 2019, Jeff has directed Early Music Missouri, a not-for-profit Early Music presenter based in St. Louis. EMMo’s concerts range from the Middle Ages to the early Romantic and feature soloists, chamber ensembles and large ensembles of singers and instrumentalists. For more information, visit the EMMo website, earlymusicmissouri.net.
To view or listen to performance excerpts by a number of these ensembles, visit the Audio & Video Links page listed above.
For information on upcoming concerts, click on the PERFORMANCES link above.
For booking information, contact Jeff through this website or at jjnoonan@sbcglobal.net.
Musicke’s cordes
Un tas de cordes
For over a decade, Samuel Breene and Jeffrey Noonan have played 17th- and 18th-century instrumental music across the country as the duo Musicke’s Cordes. When touring, the duo often collaborates with local players and several years ago in Colorado, they worked with viola da gambist Sarah Biber in a large ensemble. The three discussed possible collaborations but schedules, Covid and more blocked any serious plans until 2023. In fall 2023, the trio debuted a program of French chamber music in the Midwest, in the Rockies and on the East Coast. Ensemble chemistry and audience reception convinced the three to join forces more permanently as the trio Un tas de cordes. While the duo Musicke’s Cordes continues its performance schedule, this new trio project has led to new programs and performance opportunities, including a second program of German trios for violin, viol and continuo by Buxtehude and Telemann for the 2024 -2025 season.
La Petite Brise
In 2010, the Baroque flautist Lehighann Daihl and Baroque cellist Stephanie Hunt both lived in the Netherlands, pursuing advanced studies in Early Music performance. They performed together briefly in Holland but went their separate ways shortly after. In 2016, Leighann and Stephanie reconnected at an Early Music conference and determined to play together again. Shortly after the conference, they invited Jeff to join the ensemble and La Petite Brise offered its premiere performance in early 2017 at the Quigley Chapel in Chicago. The ensemble focuses on the French repertoire for flute and features music by Hotteterre, Boismortier, Blavet, Quantz and others. La Petite Brise's 2017-2018 season included performances in the St. Louis area as well as concert series in Indiana. La Petite Brise opened the 2018 - 2019 season with a performance on the popular concert series at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis. The spring and summer of 2019 included concerts as well as a grant-funded residency at The French House at the Vincennes Historical Site in Vincennes, Indiana.
