Laura Noah is a professional musician and educator residing in Mobile, Alabama. She is the Principal Timpanist for the Mobile Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Mississippi Gulf Coast Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Mobile Opera, and Pensacola Opera. In February 2024, Laura performed the Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra by Philip Glass with the Mercer University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Brittan Braddock.  She will be the featured soloist for Glass’s Concerto Fantasy in February 2025 with the Mobile Symphony under Music Director, Scott Speck.

Laura Noah is a Pearl/Adams Regional Education Artist and an active Percussive Arts Society member.  She served as PAS Alabama Chapter President from 2021-2024, is a current member of the Symphonic Committee, and served as the Socioeconomic point person for the PAS Diversity Alliance from 2020-2023.

Mrs. Noah is the Director of Percussion and Assistant Director of Athletic Bands at the University of West Florida, where she directs the UWF Percussion Ensemble and the UWF Argo Marching Band Drum Line.   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. 

Laura 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 1999 DCI Champion Santa Clara Vanguard front ensemble member.

Photographer: Ben Harper