Becky Noble is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and music educator, from Canada’s west coast. Noble studied jazz performance, composition, and improvisation at McGill University and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Noble has performed, worked, and recorded with Dave Douglas, Greg Osby, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ingrid Jensen, Chet Doxas, Tineke Postma, and Phil Dwyer.

Becky has been recognized by the Canadian National Jazz Awards (CBC-Galaxie Rising Star), the International Association for Jazz Education (Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition Winner), Jazz en Rafale festival in Quebec (Best New Talent/Grand Prize Winner), and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (TD Grand Prize & Galaxie Rising Star Award Nominee).

Becky has performed throughout North America, including as featured artist at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and opening act for the Dave Brubeck Quartet in Long Beach, California.

Noble released an impressive debut album, Salish Folk Song, of original material on Montreal’s Effendi Records. The Ottawa Citizen noted Noble’s Salish Folk Song “confirms the arrival of another very promising young Canadian jazz talent,” and named the album in the top 10 Canadian Jazz Albums of 2013.

Noble is also a practicing lawyer on Vancouver Island.