Nooa Hilli (b. 2009) began playing the piano at the age of 5 and regular piano lessons at the age of 7 with Natalia Murzina. Since 2019 Nooa has studied piano at the Oulu Conservatory with Sara Larikka.
Nooa has been Antti Hotti's student several times in master classes and received private lessons from Jani Aarrevaara. In the spring of 2023, Nooa was awarded a scholarship from the Youth Piano Academy, where he started in 2024 as a full-time student.
In 2022, Nooa participated in the Leevi Madetoja piano competition and performed at the Youth Chopin event in Helsinki. Nooa has performed at student matinees of the Oulu Conservatory and Valkoinen flyygeli music school, as well as at church events, in Oulu City Hall in connection with a choir event, and with a music camp in St. Petersburg's Feodorovsky Cathedral.