“William Price’s inventive “Sans Titre IV” conjured a huge noise with cymbals, bass drum and four timpani, Laura Noah performing percussion acrobatics in a circle of instruments.”
Laura Noah is a professional musician and educator residing in Mobile, Alabama. Noah is the Principal Timpanist for the Mobile Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Gulf Coast Symphony, and Meridian Symphony. Laura also performs with the Mobile Opera, Pensacola Opera, and as extra with the Louisiana Philharmonic.
Noah is the Director of Percussion at the University of West Florida, where she directs the UWF Percussion Ensemble and is Co-Director of the Argo Athletic Band. She also teaches applied percussion, percussion methods, and music in world cultures . Laura also works with her husband, Sean, and the McGill-Toolen Catholic High School Band program coaching the Prep Band percussionists and is the instructor and arranger for the McT Band Front Ensemble.
Laura Noah performs on the album Songs of Robert Burns by Brian Joyce, Flying Frog Music, 2012, and “Changes for Seven for Woodwind Quintet, Percussion and Piano” The Voice of Coelacanth - Music of William Bergsma, Centaur Records, Inc., 2013.
She has a published article: Two Worlds: Marching and Orchestra: The Benefits of TBC - Timing, Balance, and Character, Percussive Notes - Vol. 52, No. 4.
Noah holds a Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Alabama. Additionally, she attended the Aspen Music Festival and School and was a member of the 1999 DCI Champion Santa Clara Vanguard.
Laura Noah is a Pearl/Adams Regional Education Artist, the PAS Alabama Chapter President, a member of the Symphonic Committee of the Percussive Arts Society, and the Socioeconomic point person for the PAS Diversity Alliance.
Photographer: Ben Harper