Noah Mennenga

Noah Mennenga, of Cottage Grove, WI, is a first-year doctoral student under the tutelage of Dr. Ryan Gardner at the University of Colorado Boulder. Mennenga recently completed a two-year Fulbright Study/Research Grant at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) where he received his master’s degree. His bachelor’s degree is from Oklahoma State University. As a soloist, Mennenga has won both the National Trumpet Competition Undergraduate Solo Division (2018) and the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition (2018) among other awards. He has also performed with the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Symphony Orchestra Biel Solothurn (Switzerland), the Round Top Festival Orchestra, and is the current principal trumpet of the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.