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Mr. Benkman has taught music at Chabot College since 1989. Since 1998 he has pioneered the development of online education at Chabot College developing and teaching completely online versions of academic music courses. For four years he was Production Manager of Web Course Development at Teacher Universe and later Riverdeep Interactive Learning. During that time his team received two Codie Award nominations for Best K-16 Education Administration Solution 2003 and Best Online Training Program 2001. Pianist Noel Benkman has performed four concert tours throughout China. In 2006 he was awarded Honorary Visiting Professor of Music by Shanxi Art College in Taiyuan, China. In addition to recent recitals in Asia and the United States, he performed in “Music in the Mountains” in Yosemite National Park. Mr. Benkman’s CD Yosemite Suite on the Lushtone Records label has received excellent reviews and has been featured numerous times on American Public Radio. He has composed and recorded music for several independent films including Here, in the Garden of Eden a documentary about the painter Albert Bierstadt commissioned by the San Francisco De Young Museum, The Missing Key, Passenger, Last Man, 1 or 2 Things About..., The Final Cut, and the theme music for the television series Culture Shock News. Noel Benkman holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a student of Thomas LaRatta and Adolph Baller and a Master of Music degree from Stony Brook University as a student of Gilbert Kalish. He lives in Orinda, California with his wife Valerie and has two grown sons: Matthew and Mark. |
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