Christian M. Noon is Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Teaching Professor of Music Education at the University of Missouri. At MU, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education, conducts the University Band, assists in the direction of Marching Mizzou, and directs Mini Mizzou for women’s basketball. His professional career began as a band and orchestra teacher in the public schools of Colorado, where he grew up.

As a conductor, Dr. Noon is a proponent of new, diverse, and sophisticated works for winds. He advocates for more equitable processes of repertoire selection among conductors that center quality and diversity in concert programming. He believes that doing so will create more diverse and engaging musical experiences for ensemble members and audiences.

Dr. Noon’s research interests include philosophy, sociology, and social justice in music education, as well as preservice music teacher identity development and conducting. As a music teacher educator, he seeks to provide his students with tools, skills, and experiences that allow them to envision music education as an inclusive of, expansive, and diverse subject that enriches schools and communities.

Dr. Noon’s scholarly work has been published in Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. He has also presented research at the Florida Music Educators Association conference, the Missouri Music Educators Association conference, and the NAfME Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium on Music Teacher Education. He holds professional memberships in NAfME, CBDNA, CMS, and the Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society, as well as honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.