Noertker's Moxie Quintet

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Season opener!
Sunday, March 4, 2012
7:30pm
Noertker's Moxie Quintet
Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Dax Compise - drums
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also appearing
Pacific Sticks Ensemble
performs
8 Trios For Percussion (For Roto-Timpani, Tom Toms, and Snare Drum) by Oszkar Balazs
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Outsound presents
SIMM New Music Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
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In 2001, bassist/composer Bill Noertker formed his own group, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his thematic compositions. Since then he has been composing and performing suites of music 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 150 pieces of music for this group and has released seven CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and the first volume of his extended Blue Rider Suite. He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010 - Short Film Corner.

Annelise Zamula plays sax and flute because she believes that music surpasses words as a means of communication. Although Ms. Zamula frequently has her nose in the dictionary and has even been dubbed "Miss Wordypants" by a musical colleague, when push comes to shove, she perceives music as the more effective unifying force and the medium of infinite possibility. Ms. Zamula has toured in Europe and the United States with the Seattle-based Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. Back in the SF Bay Area, Zamula has performed with jazz, swing, blues, rock, and classical ensembles over the last two decades, honking her sax in clubs, cafes, concert halls, churches, and on local radio and television. Currently she plays with Big Lou's Casserole, the MoodSwing Orchestra, the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet, the After the End of the World Coretet, the Montclair Women's Big Band, and Noertker's Moxie.

Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute. She sang in a bossa nova group for years as well. She currently leads a monthly improvisation session for musicians and dancers in the Mission. Amber is also a visual artist who creates portraits of blues and jazz musicians.

Dax Compise is one of the founding members of the California Outside Music Associates. He has performed throughout the region in settings ranging from the symphony, to blues and jazz groups, to fully improvised percussion ensembles. His command of the instrument and creativity has led to Dax being great demand as a sideman. Besides performing on a regular basis with COMA, he has forged a musical relationship with the improvisational community in Sacramento. Recordings with Ross Hammond and Tony Passerell are in the works.

John Vaughn is a founding member of COMA. He is currently involved in a recording project with COMA and playing with as many creative people as possible. He has performed in groups ranging from concert and jazz bands, pit orchestras to improvisations groups of all types. He is often playing in Sacramento with the Gambari Arts Ensemble led by Adam Jenkins or at Old Ironsides with Ross Hammond and Tony Passerell. John is focused on making the central Valley of California into a friendly place for improvising and experimental musicians.•
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Pacific Sticks Percussion Ensemble was formed in 1976, by their Director, Ken Crawford. Primarily, the ensemble does school assemblies and workshops in California & Nevada (including one season for the S.F. Symphony's AIM II series), plus some concert work. They have performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and conducted a year-long series of monthly Percussion Luncheons at Clarion Music Center, here in San Francisco.

Ken Crawford is percussion & timpani instructor at Dominican University in San Rafael, and continues to pl ay occasionally on the "Freeway Philharmonic" circuit . His best known teachers were Murray Spivack & Alan Dawson.

Tommy Kesecker is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory, were he now teaches percussion in the Preparatory Division. He has performed/recorded with Zakir Hussain & Bobby Hutcherson.

Francisco Ortiz first studied percussion & conducting at Dominican University and then earned his Master in Music Education degree from Holy Names University. He is currently Music Director for St. Raphael's Church and Mission in Marin County.

"Eight Trios for Percussion", by Balazs Oszkar, was published in Budapest in 1969. Pacific Sticks Ensemble has the only complete copies in the U.S., which were given by the composer to a relative of the late Jack Van der Wyk (Oakland Symphony), who was a member of Pacific Sticks until his passing.

Further information about Pacific Sticks may be found by contacting them at [email protected], or by visiting their pages on the American Composers Forum web site: http://www.composersforum.org

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