Noa Kageyama

A conservatory-trained violinist, performance psychologist Noa Kageyama now specializes in teaching musicians how to utilize sport psychology techniques to perform to their full abilities under pressure. Kageyama’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Slate, Musical America, Strings Magazine, Strad, and Lifehacker, as well as on NBC News, CNN, and TED-Ed. He has taught over 9,000 musicians, educators, and learners through his online courses, and he is the author of The Bulletproof Musician, a performance psychology blog and podcast which reaches over 45,000 subscribers every week.

Kageyama has conducted workshops for institutions such as Northwestern University, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Eastman, Rice, Curtis, McGill University, and the United States Armed Forces School of Music, as well as for programs such as the Starling-Delay Symposium, Perlman Music Program, and National Orchestral Institute. He regularly works with organizations across the United States, including the Music Teachers’ National Association, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Sphinx, Performing Arts Medicine Association, and Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Kageyama is on faculty at the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. After studying at Oberlin and Juilliard, Kageyama completed a PhD in counseling psychology at Indiana University.