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Biography
Jason Noble
Dr. Jason Noble joins the Lehman College faculty after serving two years as a substitute assistant professor. He brings a twenty-one-year career of national and international excellence in secondary and university band education, creative music curricular reform, and progressive music education, having conducted featured concerts fifteen times at Carnegie Hall and at many of the finest concert halls across the world on six continents, from Sydney, Australia, to Vienna, Austria, to Beijing, China. He holds degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University (Ed.D.C.T., College Teaching of Music Education), where he was the recipient of the Florence K. Geffen Endowed Fellowship, New York University (M.A., Music Education), and the Frost School of Music, University of Miami (B.M., Music Education, cum laude). His passion for instrumental music education and teacher training found a perfect fit at Lehman College, where he teaches graduate conducting, instrumental methods, and creative teaching strategies for graduate music history and theory.
Prior to his appointment at Lehman, Dr. Noble served as conductor of the Columbia University Wind Ensemble, garnering national and international acclaim, leading the commission of new works by diverse composers, and leading the group to its first three full-length performances at Carnegie Hall since 1965. As Director of Bands at Scarsdale High School (Scarsdale, NY), he piloted, tested, and implemented a progressive and successful Democracy in Band curriculum focused entirely on intrinsic motivation, student choice/voice, and shared responsibility without the typical exogenous rewards systems found in most school band programs. He also recently served as an adjunct lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University, supervising and mentoring New York City student teachers in the Teachers College MA program. He began his career as Director of Bands at Miami Coral Park High School in Miami, Florida. His primary teachers and advisors were Gary Green (University of Miami), Nicholas DeCarbo (University of Miami), David Elliott (NYU), Paul Cohen (NYU), Justin Dello Joio (NYU), Maxine Greene (Teachers College, Columbia University), and Randall Everett Allsup (Teachers College, Columbia University).