Experience the National Band & Orchestra Fest, a premier celebration of musical brilliance, showcasing outstanding youth ensembles from across the nation. This ticketed daytime concert offers a unique opportunity to witness the next generation of musicians share their artistry and dedication live on stage. Don’t miss this inspiring event that highlights the talent, passion, and creativity of these exceptional young performers.

TANYA CHANPHANITPORNKIT, GUEST CLINICIAN

Tanatchaya (Tanya) Chanphanitpornkit, known for her joy, is a double bassist and conductor from Thailand focused on educating and inspiring young musicians. Chanphanitpornkit received her education from the Eastman School of Music.

She continued her education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where the emphasis of her Master of Arts and Master of Education degrees was on social justice through orchestral pedagogy and her pedagogy was highlighted in an exhibit for the Smith Learning Theater. Currently, Chanphanitpornkit is continuing her studies as a doctoral candidate at Teachers College studying first-generation college students in music conservatory.

Chanphanitpornkit currently teaches at Nyack Public Schools. She is the Music Director of New York Youth Symphony’s Crescendo Orchestra and conductor of Manhattan School of Music Precollege Symphony Orchestra. Her higher education positions include Teachers College, Columbia University, William Paterson University, and The College of New Jersey. She is a co-founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Conduct. She has served as the Assistant Conductor for New York Youth Symphony’s GRAMMY Award-winning Orchestra.

Recently, she was awarded the Eastman Centennial Award, where in honor of its centennial year, Eastman created the Centennial Award to recognize 100 individuals who exemplify Eastman’s mission and legacy through their commitment to artistry, scholarship, leadership, community engagement, and/or philanthropy. In 2022, she was awarded the Early Career Award by Teachers College, Columbia University. As she continues on her journey in music education alongside her students, she will always base her decisions and teachings on the belief that the symphony is for everyone.

JASON NOBLE, GUEST CLINICIAN

Dr. Jason Noble (he/him/his) currently serves as Associate Professor of Music Education at The City University of New York (CUNY), Lehman College, and concurrently serves as a part-time faculty member at New York University and a guest faculty artist at the Manhattan School of Music. At Lehman College, he teaches graduate conducting and creative instrumental teaching strategies for Master of Arts (M.A.T.) students seeking New York State P12 music certification, and mentors graduate students through an innovative emerging teacher preparation program. At NYU, he has recently taught and conducted the NYU Wind Symphony and taught the NYU instrumental conducting, materials, techniques, and synthesis course sequence. At the Manhattan School of Music, he has recently conducted the MSM Camerata Nova ensemble and frequently teaches the MSM WBOTS (orchestral core repertoire training sequence course) as an invited guest artist. Throughout his twenty-four-year career in both secondary and university instrumental ensemble direction, he has received national and international acclaim in the areas of creative and innovative music curricular reform and progressive music education. He has conducted invited featured concerts nineteen 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), 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). 

Prior to his current teaching and conducting appointments, he 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 from 2007-2022 at Scarsdale High School (Scarsdale, NY), he piloted, tested, and implemented a progressive and successful Maxine Greene and John Dewey-inspired 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. His primary teachers and mentors 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).