Laura Noah
Mobile Symphony Orchestra / University of West Florida
Overview
As a professional musician, Laura Noah is Principal Timpanist for the Mobile Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Meridian Symphony, and Gulf Coast Symphony.
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 the Director of Percussion at the University of West Florida, where she directs the UWF Percussion Ensemble and the Argo Drum Line. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Mobile where she teaches applied percussion and percussion pedagogy. Noah also works with her husband, Sean, and the McGill-Toolen Catholic High School Band program coaching Prep Band and is the instructor and arranger for the Front Ensemble.
Noah is a Pearl/Adams Regional Education Artist, a member of the Symphonic Committee of the Percussive Arts Society, and the Socioeconomic point person for the PAS Diversity Alliance.