Lance Dubay Wins MSBOA Teacher of the Year Award

Lance Dubay (far right) with the Marching Stags at the Marching Expo in Traverse City in October 2024.

In May of 2025, Kingsley band director Lance Dubay earned the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association District II Teacher of the Year award and became a Top 16 candidate for State Teacher of the Year.

This is Mr. Dubay's fifth consecutive year being nominated. Kingsley Directors have been nominated three times in the past 20 years.

In addition, he was nominated for membership into the American School Band Director Association. Acceptance into this national organization requires documentation of continued success in teaching, and mastery of band instruction. There are only 100 members of the organization in the Michigan Chapter. In June, Mr. Dubay was inducted into the organization in a pinning ceremony in Lexington, Kentucky. 

Mr. Dubay has created a legacy of excellence in the Kingsley band program. Most recently, his middle and high school programs earned straight first division ratings at District Festival in the Spring of 2025, with adjudicators noting their maturity in tone and technical precision.

That competition marked the 14th consecutive year the high school has qualified for State competition and the 16th consecutive year for the middle school.