Ain, Noa (nee Susan) (fem) 1.feb.1942- USA NY, New York
pianist, librettist, painter, 1940 her parents resided at 9 West 70th Street in Manhattan but her birthplace is given as Brooklyn, 1951-1956 residing with her parents at 245 Albert Street in Plainfield NJ, 1965 BM from the Juilliard School of Music in New York, studied with Nadia Boulanger, Robert Casadesus and piano with Jean Casadesus at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau France, studied privately in New York, piano with Seymour Bernstein, composition with Hall Overton, Stefan Wolpe and Miriam Gideon, 1972 she won a CAPS grant for best broadway composer and received many ASCAP awards since ; daughter of social service actuary Samuel Nathan Ain (Brooklyn 9.jan.1913-1.feb.1988 New York City) and public school teacher Dorothy F Ain (10.feb.1914-1.jun.2011 Tarrytown) ; she married actor Aleksander 'Olek' Krupa (Poland, Rybnik 31.aug.1955-) ; daughter filmmaker Julia Ain Krupa

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[] Mourning pictures. Music for the theatre
producer Honor Moore
ASCAP award for composition 1972

[] Nightwalk. Music for the theatre. 1975
[] Used to call me sadness, a portrait of Yoko Matsua. 1975
Yoko Matsua violin

[] The outcast. Opera. 1976
Opera Ebony New York 1990

[] Dorothy
words and music Susan Ain a.k.a. Noa Ain
copyright Susan Ain 2may1977

[] Bring on the bears. Opera. 1982
Lenox Arts Center Music Theatre Group

[] Trio. Music for the theatre. 1984
producers Lyn Austin, Margo Lion
Lenox Arts Center Music Theatre Group

[] Angels' voices. Opera. 1995
libretto after the book by Gary Race

[] Through the silence, for cello and survivor. 1995
on the life and words of Tana Ross
premiered at the Festival "Culture and Barbarism, the Art of Theresienstadt", Stockholm. Tana Ross actor, Erik Friedlander cello, Gail Hadani voice

[] Joan of Arc. Opera. Coloratura soprano/performer and electronics. 2001
Trudy Ellen Craney. Angel Orensantz Foundation

[] Song of the turtledove (based on the Song of Songs). 2001
with Gerard Edery for the Gerard Edery Ensemble

[] The perfect chair. Song cycle. 2005
Emily Samson Tepe

[] In your heart. 2008
words Christian Holder

[] Verse of fortune. Musical. 2009
words Christian Holder
orchestration Andy Brick

[] Vita Nova. Song cycle. Voice and piano. 2013
Trudy Craney

[] Song of Bilitis. Soprano and piano
based on the book by Pierre Louys
Gail Hadani, Noa Ain

[] Leaving home (Czas na uwiegi/Time at the edge). 5 Actors and 5 musicians
ran for one year at Teatr Stu in Krakow Poland

[] Next Spring. Song cycle
Trudy Craney

[] Dream trip. Song cycle
Trudy Craney

[] Song for Christmas
music with Theodore N. Saunders
words Christian Holder

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