Dec 28, 2022
Noah Gladstone wears many hats. On
any given day he may be found performing on historical trombones
and other bass instruments for period concert reconstructions to
recording trombone for the latest Hollywood's motion picture or TV
show, to managing orchestras for high profile clients and
contracting musicians for global productions and recording
sessions, to producing original music for the latest video game
release with millions of viewers.
In 2011, he founded Hollywood Scoring, which has quickly
become one of the premiere music production companies in the
industry. In addition to writing original music and bespoke
compositions for a variety of global clients and brands and
building stadium shows on all major continents, Hollywood Scoring
also maintains and operates a state of the art scoring stage in the
heart of Los Angeles. Mr Gladstone has been involved with the
production of recording sessions and live music shows and events
(both locally and global) for a variety of clients from
NBC-Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Microsoft, Riot Games
League of Legends, MiHoYo's Genshin Impact, Netflix, Paramount
Productions, The Arcane anime series, Tencent Entertainment, Adult
Swim, Macy's 4th of July Fireworks and Thanksgiving Parade, Disney
Theme Parks, Blizzard Entertainment, National Public Radio, among
others.
As a trombonist and instrumentalist, he has performed with
world class ensembles such as The Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The
Santa Barbara Symphony, Juilliard 415, Tesserae Baroque, Musica
Transalpina to name a few. He has performed with pop icons such as
Boy George and the Culture Club, Tom Jones, Michael McDonald, Pete
Townshend, The Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, Pete Tong, Snow Patrol, Belle and
Sebastian, Billy Idol and many others. He holds a Bachelors and
Masters degree in music from The University of Southern California
in trombone performance. He has studied with Byron Peebles, Jay
Friedman, Ralph Sauer and Terry Cravens.
Noah has been a brass instrument
enthusiast since starting the trombone at age 12 and got into
serious collecting in high school, under the mentorship of Byron
Peebles, when he found his first Bach Mt Vernon 42 and Elkhart Conn
88H trombone and developed obsession of the art of musical
instrument craftsmanship. He began working with Steve Ferguson at
The Horn Guys Shop in 2001 and helped build that store in the early
days, learning a lot about the instrument business along the way
and making friends with trombonists from around the world. In 2010,
he founded The Brass Ark, his own music store dedicated to the
appreciation, collection, restoration and sales of the best new,
vintage and used brasswind instruments. It was with this goal in
mind, to offer a location where brass enthusiasts could buy, sell,
trade and learn about these rare horns and accessories, represented
by a seller who is not only an expert and enthusiast himself in the
field of vintage brasswinds. He maintains and upkeeps a museum and
collection of some of the finest trombones ever made, including
many rarities which have become inspiration for new models and
equipment brought to market in collaboration with Noah and various makers such as Stephen Shires,
Bob Reeves, Markus Leuchter, Brad Close, Stephan Schmidt and
others.