The 2024 WGI Virtual season is just around the corner, and there are some exciting changes coming to our Virtual Preview event! We have gathered a panel of esteemed clinicians from each division to provide overview commentary and give valuable feedback to groups before the competitive season begins.
Our hope is to provide a different perspective of your program from individuals who are active designers and educators in the marching arts industry. As overview, they are not confined to any single caption and, therefore, may provide commentary on any part of your performance.
Read more about each of the clinicians below, and Click Here to learn more about WGI’s 2024 Virtual Preview!
Color Guard
Becca Anderson
Becca is currently the Creative Director for Juxtaposition Winter Guard and the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps. She spends her days between Eagle, ID and Maui, HI, serving as a full-time visual designer and choreographer for many competitive BOA and WGI programs.
Becca Anderson has been involved within all aspects of the pageantry arts as a designer, instructor, performer, and adjudicator for over 25 years. She was first introduced to the color guard activity at Tarpon Springs High School and continued her performing experience at Carolina Crown, The Company Independent World Colour Guard, and 2000 DCI World Champion Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps.
As an educator she had the opportunity to instruct and design for programs including The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, Juxtaposition Winter Guard, WGI Scholastic World Finalist and BOA Finalist – Lawrence Central High School, WGI and BOA Finalist O’Fallon Township High School, WGI Gold Medalist – Cascades Independent, Seattle Cascades, the Oregon Crusaders and other WGI and BOA Finalists including North by Northwest IO, Friendswood HS, and Tarpon Springs High School. Becca is currently the Creative director for Juxtaposition Independent World Winter Guard and the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps.
Becca resides in both Maui, HI and Eagle, ID with her husband, Mike Anderson and their two puppies, Sophie and Mimi. She spends her days as a full time visual designer and choreographer for programs throughout the United States. She has also been an adjudicator for WGI, DCI, and BOA. In her free time, she loves to surf, snow ski, relax by the pool, and spend time anywhere in the world with her best friends and family.
Becca Anderson has been involved within all aspects of the pageantry arts as a designer, instructor, performer, and adjudicator for over 25 years. She was first introduced to the color guard activity at Tarpon Springs High School and continued her performing experience at Carolina Crown, The Company Independent World Colour Guard, and 2000 DCI World Champion Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps.
As an educator she had the opportunity to instruct and design for programs including The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps, Juxtaposition Winter Guard, WGI Scholastic World Finalist and BOA Finalist – Lawrence Central High School, WGI and BOA Finalist O’Fallon Township High School, WGI Gold Medalist – Cascades Independent, Seattle Cascades, the Oregon Crusaders and other WGI and BOA Finalists including North by Northwest IO, Friendswood HS, and Tarpon Springs High School. Becca is currently the Creative director for Juxtaposition Independent World Winter Guard and the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps.
Becca resides in both Maui, HI and Eagle, ID with her husband, Mike Anderson and their two puppies, Sophie and Mimi. She spends her days as a full time visual designer and choreographer for programs throughout the United States. She has also been an adjudicator for WGI, DCI, and BOA. In her free time, she loves to surf, snow ski, relax by the pool, and spend time anywhere in the world with her best friends and family.
Daniel Wiles
Daniel resides in Avon, Indiana as the Visual/Program Coordinator and Color Guard Director for Avon High School, where he has taught for the last 25 years. Avon is a perennial finalist in both the WGI and BOA circuits, with multiple championships in recent years.
Daniel Wiles has been teaching for almost 40 years in the world of pageantry and has been involved in Drum Corps and Color Guard since as early as he can remember. He resides in Avon, Indiana with his wife Sarah, and their beautiful children Olivia, Aidan and Brennan. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary English Education from Indiana University. Daniel was a member of the Cavalier Cadets from 1980-1984, and The Cavaliers from 1985-1989.
For the last 25 years, he has been the Visual/Program Coordinator and Color Guard Director for Avon High School. Avon HS is a 15 time Indiana State Band Champion, and is the 2008, 2009, 2010 Bands of America Grand National Champion, also placing in the Top 3 at bands of America since 2007! Avon High School World Guard is the 2009, 2018, 2019 & 2022 WGI Scholastic World Champion and has been in the Scholastic World Top 5 since 2002!
Daniel Wiles was recently the Artistic Director for the Cavaliers drum and bugle corps for the past seven years. He helped orchestrate the ascension of the Carolina Crown Drum & Bugle Corps as their visual coordinator from 2003-2008 and assisted in putting The Troopers back in finals as their visual coordinator from 2008-2010. In 2012, Daniel was the Visual coordinator/Drill designer for the Bluecoats. From 2002- 2004, Daniel served as a member of the WGI instructor task force. He has been a member of the WGI Advisory board for over 25 years! In 2019, Daniel was honored to be elected into the WGI Hall of Fame!
Daniel Wiles has been teaching for almost 40 years in the world of pageantry and has been involved in Drum Corps and Color Guard since as early as he can remember. He resides in Avon, Indiana with his wife Sarah, and their beautiful children Olivia, Aidan and Brennan. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary English Education from Indiana University. Daniel was a member of the Cavalier Cadets from 1980-1984, and The Cavaliers from 1985-1989.
For the last 25 years, he has been the Visual/Program Coordinator and Color Guard Director for Avon High School. Avon HS is a 15 time Indiana State Band Champion, and is the 2008, 2009, 2010 Bands of America Grand National Champion, also placing in the Top 3 at bands of America since 2007! Avon High School World Guard is the 2009, 2018, 2019 & 2022 WGI Scholastic World Champion and has been in the Scholastic World Top 5 since 2002!
Daniel Wiles was recently the Artistic Director for the Cavaliers drum and bugle corps for the past seven years. He helped orchestrate the ascension of the Carolina Crown Drum & Bugle Corps as their visual coordinator from 2003-2008 and assisted in putting The Troopers back in finals as their visual coordinator from 2008-2010. In 2012, Daniel was the Visual coordinator/Drill designer for the Bluecoats. From 2002- 2004, Daniel served as a member of the WGI instructor task force. He has been a member of the WGI Advisory board for over 25 years! In 2019, Daniel was honored to be elected into the WGI Hall of Fame!
Percussion
Tony Lymon
Tony lives in Petal, Mississippi, and aids with the design of many top percussion programs in the DCI, BOA, and WGI scene. He is currently the Audio Caption Supervisor for Carolina Crown and serves on the design team for World Championships finalist groups like United Percussion World, UP2, and Petal High School.
Tony has spent the past two DCI seasons serving on the design team and Audio Caption Supervisor for Carolina Crown. He currently serves on the design team for United Percussion World and UP2 where he shares multiple roles, including creative design, sound design, and arranger. He recently completed a twenty-four-year tenure as the co-music arranger/show designer for the Petal High School marching band in Petal, Mississippi, and is the director and show designer for the Petal Indoor Percussion Theatre, a national WGI Percussion Scholastic World Class Finalist. He has twice been awarded the Outstanding Junior High Director of the Southeast Mississippi Band Directors Association and the 2008 Mississippi Bandmasters Association AE McClain Outstanding Young Band Director Award. Tony was also the Founder and Director of Eminence Indoor Percussion Ensemble (2003-2005), a regional and national WGI Open Class finalist and championship ensemble.
Tony holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Certification in 3D Architectural Rendering from The 3D Training Institute of New York. He was a member and principal percussionist in the world-renowned Southern Miss Wind Ensemble and Southern Miss Symphony Orchestra. While at Southern Miss, Tony was the percussion arranger for the Pride of Mississippi Marching Band and USM indoor percussion ensemble. Tony was also a member of the World Champion Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps (Bloomington, IN) from 1991-1993. In his three years of DCI experience, he won the DCI-Midwest Solo Timpani Champion and the 1994 Percussive Arts Society International Solo Timpani Award. Tony’s original marimba composition “Of Thoughts and Thinking” has become a standard in percussion literature. The piece was most recently recorded by German percussion artist Cornelia Monkse on the CD “Marimba 2” and was featured in the French documentary film “Le Ciel.”
After college, Tony pursued a professional performance career for eight years with the pop/rock band King Konga. While with King Konga, Tony toured the world selling out venues nationwide. The group did a post September 11th USO tour for the U.S. Military in Hawaii and South East Asia. The four-piece band gained critical acclaim reaching #81 on the AC Hot 100 Pop Charts with “Something Good.” With a rare accomplishment by an independent band, King Konga captured the eyes and ears of many major record labels and the band went on to perform at Woodstock ’99. Tony has also performed with The Mississippi Symphony, Mobile Opera, Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera, and The Meistersingers Orchestral/Choral Ensemble.
He has also served as Sound Designer for The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps in 2018 and Creative Designer for Pacific Crest Drum and Bugle Corps 2019-2020. In the WGI arena, Tony has contributed to creative and aesthetic design with Pulse Percussion, POW, Chino Hills HS, Vision Percussion, United Percussion World, UP2, and feniX Independent World Guard. He is the owner of Eidetic Creative, a multimedia creative designs solution business. He currently resides in Petal, Mississippi with his wife Emily and 16-year-old daughter Colette.
Tony has spent the past two DCI seasons serving on the design team and Audio Caption Supervisor for Carolina Crown. He currently serves on the design team for United Percussion World and UP2 where he shares multiple roles, including creative design, sound design, and arranger. He recently completed a twenty-four-year tenure as the co-music arranger/show designer for the Petal High School marching band in Petal, Mississippi, and is the director and show designer for the Petal Indoor Percussion Theatre, a national WGI Percussion Scholastic World Class Finalist. He has twice been awarded the Outstanding Junior High Director of the Southeast Mississippi Band Directors Association and the 2008 Mississippi Bandmasters Association AE McClain Outstanding Young Band Director Award. Tony was also the Founder and Director of Eminence Indoor Percussion Ensemble (2003-2005), a regional and national WGI Open Class finalist and championship ensemble.
Tony holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Certification in 3D Architectural Rendering from The 3D Training Institute of New York. He was a member and principal percussionist in the world-renowned Southern Miss Wind Ensemble and Southern Miss Symphony Orchestra. While at Southern Miss, Tony was the percussion arranger for the Pride of Mississippi Marching Band and USM indoor percussion ensemble. Tony was also a member of the World Champion Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps (Bloomington, IN) from 1991-1993. In his three years of DCI experience, he won the DCI-Midwest Solo Timpani Champion and the 1994 Percussive Arts Society International Solo Timpani Award. Tony’s original marimba composition “Of Thoughts and Thinking” has become a standard in percussion literature. The piece was most recently recorded by German percussion artist Cornelia Monkse on the CD “Marimba 2” and was featured in the French documentary film “Le Ciel.”
After college, Tony pursued a professional performance career for eight years with the pop/rock band King Konga. While with King Konga, Tony toured the world selling out venues nationwide. The group did a post September 11th USO tour for the U.S. Military in Hawaii and South East Asia. The four-piece band gained critical acclaim reaching #81 on the AC Hot 100 Pop Charts with “Something Good.” With a rare accomplishment by an independent band, King Konga captured the eyes and ears of many major record labels and the band went on to perform at Woodstock ’99. Tony has also performed with The Mississippi Symphony, Mobile Opera, Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera, and The Meistersingers Orchestral/Choral Ensemble.
He has also served as Sound Designer for The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps in 2018 and Creative Designer for Pacific Crest Drum and Bugle Corps 2019-2020. In the WGI arena, Tony has contributed to creative and aesthetic design with Pulse Percussion, POW, Chino Hills HS, Vision Percussion, United Percussion World, UP2, and feniX Independent World Guard. He is the owner of Eidetic Creative, a multimedia creative designs solution business. He currently resides in Petal, Mississippi with his wife Emily and 16-year-old daughter Colette.
Noah Bellamy
Noah resides in Canton, Michigan and has spent his career programming and creating visual designs for competitive Drum Corps, Marching Band, and Indoor Percussion groups. He works with award-winning groups like Plymouth Canton Educational Park and Nation Ford High School while judging for circuits all around the country.
Noah Bellamy is a pageantry visual designer and program consultant living in Canton, Michigan. He has spent his career programming and creating visual designs for Drum Corps, Marching Bands, and Indoor Percussion groups across the country.
Before entering a full career in pageantry, Noah spent a large part of his life as a professional trombonist. He has spent time touring with headliner acts like KC and The Sunshine Band, Glorias Estefan, and Barry Manilow.
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. Noah currently designs for some of the premier marching bands across the country such as Rouse High School, Waxahachie High School, Plymouth Canton Educational Park, and Nation Ford High School.
Noah has been an active participant in the Drum and Bugle Corps activity, serving as the visual designer for the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps from 2015-2018 and for The Madison Scouts from 2020-2023. Noah also has an accomplished career around the Indoor Percussion activity. He has programmed productions and served as the visual designer for groups such as Infinity, Stryke, Center Grove, Broken Arrow, Lebanon, Clover, Pearl, and many others. He currently maintains a busy schedule of both designing and judging for circuits all around the Country.
Noah received his Bachelors of Music Performance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a Masters of Music Performance from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He currently resides in Canton, Michigan, with his wife Carie and two beautiful daughters Madeline and Cecila.
Noah Bellamy is a pageantry visual designer and program consultant living in Canton, Michigan. He has spent his career programming and creating visual designs for Drum Corps, Marching Bands, and Indoor Percussion groups across the country.
Before entering a full career in pageantry, Noah spent a large part of his life as a professional trombonist. He has spent time touring with headliner acts like KC and The Sunshine Band, Glorias Estefan, and Barry Manilow.
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. Noah currently designs for some of the premier marching bands across the country such as Rouse High School, Waxahachie High School, Plymouth Canton Educational Park, and Nation Ford High School.
Noah has been an active participant in the Drum and Bugle Corps activity, serving as the visual designer for the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps from 2015-2018 and for The Madison Scouts from 2020-2023. Noah also has an accomplished career around the Indoor Percussion activity. He has programmed productions and served as the visual designer for groups such as Infinity, Stryke, Center Grove, Broken Arrow, Lebanon, Clover, Pearl, and many others. He currently maintains a busy schedule of both designing and judging for circuits all around the Country.
Noah received his Bachelors of Music Performance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a Masters of Music Performance from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He currently resides in Canton, Michigan, with his wife Carie and two beautiful daughters Madeline and Cecila.
Winds
Zack Novicki
Zack Novicki is the Associate Director of Bands at Southgate Community Schools, where he directly oversees many of the school district’s award-winning ensembles. He is also the Executive Director/CEO of LSM Performing Arts, a winds group that won back-to-back Winds World Championships in 2022 and 2023.
Zack Novicki is the Associate Director of Bands at Southgate Community Schools, where he directly oversees many of the school district’s award-winning ensembles. The Southgate Anderson Marching Band has been MCBA State Championships Finalists every year under his direction. Over the last few years, Zack has also helped guide the Southgate Winter Guards to two State Championships (2019, 2023) and World Championship Semi-Finals (2022).
Zack is also the Executive Director/CEO of LSM Performing Arts. In his time at LSM, he has helped lead LSM Winds to World Championships finals every year since the inception of the winds division, including back-to-back WGI Winds World Championships (2022 WIA, 2023 WIO).
Zack has actively served on the WGI Winds Advisory Board since 2015, and is currently serving as a member of the Winds Steering Committee.
Zack Novicki is the Associate Director of Bands at Southgate Community Schools, where he directly oversees many of the school district’s award-winning ensembles. The Southgate Anderson Marching Band has been MCBA State Championships Finalists every year under his direction. Over the last few years, Zack has also helped guide the Southgate Winter Guards to two State Championships (2019, 2023) and World Championship Semi-Finals (2022).
Zack is also the Executive Director/CEO of LSM Performing Arts. In his time at LSM, he has helped lead LSM Winds to World Championships finals every year since the inception of the winds division, including back-to-back WGI Winds World Championships (2022 WIA, 2023 WIO).
Zack has actively served on the WGI Winds Advisory Board since 2015, and is currently serving as a member of the Winds Steering Committee.
Stephen Alia
Stephen serves as the Executive Director for Horizon Winds, the 2022 and 2023 Winds Independent World Bronze medalists. He also works with LSM winds on their design team, along with many other competitive ensembles across the country in the WGI, DCI, and BOA circuits.
As the owner of Stephen Alia Visual Design, LLC, Stephen’s active visual design clientele includes marching bands, color guards, percussion ensembles, and indoor winds ensembles from Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee. He is also the designer for four college bands and the Program Coordinator and Visual Designer for the Medellin Gran Banda from Medellin, Colombia, South America. In the WGI Winds world, Stephen is the designer for the 2022 Independent A and 2023 Independent Open World Champions, LSM Winds.
Stephen also serves as the Executive Director for the Horizon Pageantry Arts Association, Inc, a Florida not-for-profit organization as well as as the Interim Director of Horizon Winds. Horizon Winds was the 2022 and 2023 WGI Winds Independent World Class Bronze Medallists.
Stephen served as the Program Coordinator and Visual Designer for the Legends Drum and Bugle Corps, from Kalamazoo, Michigan from 2011 through 2013. Under his artistic direction, Legends was named a Drum Corps International Open Class Finalist each year and the 2012 DCI Open Class “Most Improved” corps.
Previously, he was a public school band director in central Florida for seventeen years and a member of the music education faculty of Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. Stephen was the Frostproof Middle-Senior High School Teacher of the Year in 2005 and has been listed in “Who’s Who of American Teachers” twice.
Stephen earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Central Florida, where he studied trumpet with Lyman Brodie and John Almeida. He performed as a member of the Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps.
Stephen adjudicates marching bands as a member of the Central States Judges Association, indoor guard, percussion, and winds with the Florida Federation Judges Association, and auxiliaries for the Florida Bandmasters’ Association. He was previously a Visual Judge for Drum Corps International and has judged internationally in Central and South America. He also serves a member of the Board of Directors and as the Education Coordinator for the Central States Judges Association and on the Steering Committee for the Winds division of Winter Guard International.
Stephen enjoys sharing this pageantry-filled life with his beautiful wife Sabrina and their blended family of six crazy, fun, talented, and sweet children.
As the owner of Stephen Alia Visual Design, LLC, Stephen’s active visual design clientele includes marching bands, color guards, percussion ensembles, and indoor winds ensembles from Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee. He is also the designer for four college bands and the Program Coordinator and Visual Designer for the Medellin Gran Banda from Medellin, Colombia, South America. In the WGI Winds world, Stephen is the designer for the 2022 Independent A and 2023 Independent Open World Champions, LSM Winds.
Stephen also serves as the Executive Director for the Horizon Pageantry Arts Association, Inc, a Florida not-for-profit organization as well as as the Interim Director of Horizon Winds. Horizon Winds was the 2022 and 2023 WGI Winds Independent World Class Bronze Medallists.
Stephen served as the Program Coordinator and Visual Designer for the Legends Drum and Bugle Corps, from Kalamazoo, Michigan from 2011 through 2013. Under his artistic direction, Legends was named a Drum Corps International Open Class Finalist each year and the 2012 DCI Open Class “Most Improved” corps.
Previously, he was a public school band director in central Florida for seventeen years and a member of the music education faculty of Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. Stephen was the Frostproof Middle-Senior High School Teacher of the Year in 2005 and has been listed in “Who’s Who of American Teachers” twice.
Stephen earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Central Florida, where he studied trumpet with Lyman Brodie and John Almeida. He performed as a member of the Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps.
Stephen adjudicates marching bands as a member of the Central States Judges Association, indoor guard, percussion, and winds with the Florida Federation Judges Association, and auxiliaries for the Florida Bandmasters’ Association. He was previously a Visual Judge for Drum Corps International and has judged internationally in Central and South America. He also serves a member of the Board of Directors and as the Education Coordinator for the Central States Judges Association and on the Steering Committee for the Winds division of Winter Guard International.
Stephen enjoys sharing this pageantry-filled life with his beautiful wife Sabrina and their blended family of six crazy, fun, talented, and sweet children.
