Jerry Noble
My Bio
Pianist/guitarist/composer Clifton J. Noble, Jr. is a sought-after musical collaborator who performs across a wide range of genres and styles. His original compositions and arrangements have been played by professional and student choral and instrumental ensembles and by soloists throughout the U.S. and around the world. The music he composes reflects a diverse and eclectic range of influences. Noble’s works are published by Subito Music, Warner Chappell, and ArtistTec, Inc., a company founded and managed with his wife, writer and editor Kara Noble. His compositions have been recorded by artists including saxophonist Lynn Klock, the Brigham Young University Women’s Chorus, Anima: The Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus, and violinist Joel Pitchon. From 1986 until his retirement in 2020, Noble accompanied faculty, staff, students, and ensembles in the Smith College Music Department as a collaborative pianist. He has written classical music features and reviews for the Springfield Republican newspapers since 1988. He holds a BA from Amherst College (1983) and an MA from Smith College (1988), where he studied composition with M. Lewis Spratlan and Donald Wheelock. Learn more about Jerry here.
Music has been my life’s work, and my second language in my interface with the world. Most of the teaching I have done has been by example, and in collaboration with other musicians, which seems appropriate for an art that focuses on the movement of sound through time.
- Jerry Noble
What Justina Has To Say About Jerry
Jerry and I went to Amherst together and have been playing music together ever since. Whether we are performing classical music, jazz repertoire, folk music or originals I can think of no one I would rather have at my side. We have performed concerts of every size and description in our 40 years together and always manage to have tremendous fun doing it.
