Noah Bellamy: Visual Designer
Noah Bellamy is originally from Centerville, Ohio. After graduating from high school, Noah took part in a series of special studies at the internationally acclaimed University of North Texas. In 2002, Noah graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, and then earned a masters in music from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
After marching with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps in 1996, Noah went on to teach visual performance at Centerville High School. While serving as a visual specialist and caption head from 1997-2005, the band won 12 Bands Of America Regional Championships, as well as the high visual award at Grand National Championships in 2003.
In 2005, Noah moved to South Florida and began teaching at Miami Beach Senior High School, where he started a scholastic winter drumline program, as well as a percussion class that has been modeled by many other schools across the country through the published article entitled "Creating Student Involvement Through The Use Of Percussion Instruments."
While in Florida, he became the visual designer for the consistent WGI World Class finalists, Infinity Percussion as well as for the 2010 and 2011 WGI Open Class silver medalist, Stryke Percussion, now PIW. He also began writing for and working with some of the most successful marching bands in the state, including JP Taravella, Seminole, Stoneman Douglas, and Cypress high schools.
Noah lives in Canton, Mich., where he is the visual designer and visual caption head for the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park Marching Band. He designs drill for bands across the country including Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. Noah has worked with or written for groups that have made finals in every class in WGI as well as BOA and other marching circuits around the country. He maintains a busy schedule of writing drill, judging in both the fall and the winter, and consulting with various marching ensembles from around the world, most recently traveling to Taiwan as the visual caption head and designer for the 2014 Taiwan International Marching Band Camp. Noah is an educating artist for Dynasty Band USA, Innovative Percussion, and Remo.