b. Pasadena, CA
16
February 1961
Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active
in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene
since the late 1980s.
Since 2001, he has lead his
own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for
compositions inspired by visual artists such
as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc,
Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni
Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David
Beck, and others. Noertker has composed
over 175 pieces of music for this group and
has released twelve CDs, including three
volumes of his extended suite Sketches of
Catalonia, three volumes of his extended
Blue Rider Suite, and three volumes of
his druidh series.
He has also composed music
for three films that showcase the
intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck,
composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros
film that screened at the Festival de Cannes
2010, and most recently scored the Olympia
Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and
Imagination of David Beck.”
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