Noah Scharback

Cello Soloist, Young Artists Competition Winner 2026

Noah Scharback is an 11th grader at Minnetonka High School in Minnetonka, MN. Noah has served as Principal cellist in the Minnesota Youth Symphony and was 2024’s Symphony Solo Competition winner. He was also the 2024 Senior Division winner of the MN Sinfonia Young Artist String Competition, and a Junior Division winner and Grand Prize Finalist of the Mary West Solo Competition. Noah placed highly in the 2025 Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition through the Schubert Club (10-12th Grade, 3rd place), Thursday Musical Young Artist Scholarship Competition (High School Strings, 2nd place winner), and the Mankato Symphony Young Artist Competition (Honorable Mention). Noah is thrilled to have earned the National Federation of Music Club’s Grand Cup this past year, and has his sights set on the President’s Cup, a goal of his since he was 6 years old. Noah spent this past summer at Interlochen Arts Camp where he was in the Advanced String Quartet program and served as Principal cellist of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was a finalist in the Interlochen High School Concerto Competition (2nd place) and winner of the 2025 Maddy Summer Artist Award for performance and citizenship. Noah enjoys exploring chamber music with a quartet of wonderful young people at Artaria Chamber Music School. He studies cello with his beloved teacher, Dr. David Holmes, whom he has studied with for 12 of the 13 years he has been playing. Noah also plays travel soccer and is in his 11th season singing with the Minnesota Boychoir under the wonderful direction and mentorship of Mark Johnson. Noah’s opera credits include La Bohème at Theater Latté Da and the role of Miles in The University of Minnesota Opera Theatre’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw; however, Noah’s most accomplished role to date is that of Big Brother to his four little sisters.