David Noah

David Kurnia Albert Dorfel, usually referred to as David Noah, is an Indonesian musician. He is the keyboardist of Indonesian rock band Noah since 2008 after becoming their additional musician in 2006. This position was achieved after undergoing 2 auditions in front of the personnel, as well as being part of the crew and joining Noah's tour for 2 years. David has also collaborated with and wrote song for other musicians, receiving an Anugerah Planet Muzik nomination in 2018 for his collaboration with D'Masiv and Rossa, "Pernah Memiliki", and an Anugerah Musik Indonesia nomination in 2021 for his part in the writing of Stevan Pasaribu's song "Belum Siap Kehilangan".

David became Peterpan's (now Noah) additional keyboardist in 2006. According to David, he was invited to jam in a studio and only upon arriving that he was told that he will be auditioning to be Peterpan's keyboardist. Since David was originally a pianist rather than a keyboardist, he learned how to sample the day before the audition and borrowed a keyboard with a sampler from a friend for the audition.

In 2008, David became their official keyboardist. Not long after, Peterpan stopped using that name and temporary performed as Ariel, Uki, Lukman, Reza, and David. Under their temporary name, the band released instrumental album Suara Lainnya. The band announced their new name, Noah, in 2012.

For Noah's first album under that name, Seperti Seharusnya, David wrote two songs with Noah's additional bassist Ihsan. The first is "Separuh Aku", which was released as Noah's first single. The second is "Tak Lagi Sama", which was released as the album's fourth single.

David wrote Afgan's 2013 song "Untukmu Aku Bertahan". David wrote the song after Afgan requested a song from him, leading to him coming up with a song about feeling abandoned by a loved one.

Fellow Indonesian band D'Masiv brought David to play on their and Rossa's song "Pernah Memiliki", which was released as a single in April 2018. The reason from D'Masiv is that they want piano to be played on the song, but there was no pianist in their band.

After the 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami killed members of Indonesian band Seventeen, David began to write a song for the surviving vocalist Ifan and get in touch with him. Ifan said that he only found out about the song through a third-party six months after they began contacting each other, because David kept it a secret and wanted to wait until Ifan is ready. The song, titled "Masih Harus di Sini", was released in October 2019 as Ifan's first single after Seventeen's disbandment.

David helped wrote Stevan Pasaribu's 2020 song "Belum Siap Kehilangan" along with Agie Prakasya and Indra The Titans. David was brought into the project by Indra and decided to give the song a more "modern" arrangement. Both Stevan and Indra praised the change that David brought to the song. For his part in the song's writing, David was nominated for Best Pop Song Writer in Anugerah Musik Indonesia 2021 along with the song's other writers.