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Noah Kellman is a pianist, author, composer and YouTuber based in Central New York. With an online audience of over one-hundred thousand people, he entertains many listeners with a combination of music and jazz education. A recipient of two ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards for his compositions "The Piemaker" (2011) and “Get Lost” (2008), he graduated from New York University with a Master’s Degree in Scoring For Film & Multimedia. The author of The Game Music Handbook, released with Oxford University Press, he has worked on various award-winning multimedia projects, including 2018 game Where Shadows Slumber, a mobile puzzle game that uses an interactive shadow to reveal hidden objects, and To Be With Hamlet, a live, Shakespeare performance that takes place in virtual reality. He is also a founding member of Frost Lab Studios, an independent game studio operating in NYC currently working on Plague the Peasants, a 2.5D Real-Time Strategy game in which the player plays as a plague infecting a village, and Orbit Quest, a mobile arcade-style game. In 2017, Noah was part of the ASCAP/Columbia Film Scoring Workshop and went on to receive the 2017 ASCAP Henry Mancini Music Fellowship after recording a 12-piece big band for the CUFF trailer score. A lover of narrative music, he creates cinematic soundscapes that intersect the acoustic and electronic worlds.