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Kayla Noble is stepping up as the college's first-ever choir instructor. Noble is currently a music specialist at Lincoln Elementary School in the º£½ÇÉçÇø Public School District and the contemporary worship band director at First United Congregational Church. She also performs locally with her husband Raymond as part of a musical duo called The Nobles, who play acoustic folk-pop. 

“I hope that this choir helps build community and culture on campus,” Noble said. “I hope to use traditional as well as some non-traditional choral methods in creating community and music to strengthen individual singers' unique voices in a choral setting. I hope students love choir so much that they take it again and again.”  

Noble also has experience being a choral director for church groups, co-curricular groups, and kids’ choruses, a contemporary worship band director at multiple churches, and a vocal coach with the Minnesota All-State Women’s Choir, and the Minnesota All-State Lutheran Choir. She has performed as a soloist with the Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra and in shows at the Andria Theatre.

She earned a bachelor's in music education from Concordia College, Moorhead, and a master's in Music Education at North Dakota State University. She is currently working toward becoming a fully Orff Schulwerk-certified music teacher.   

“I am so excited, and I am hoping this is the beginning of a robust music program at º£½ÇÉçÇø College,” Noble said. “I know º£½ÇÉçÇø College has a reputation for being a great college with awesome law enforcement and nursing programs. Hopefully, we can add music to that reputation.”