Dr. Ingrid Kovacs, DMA
Las Vegas Youth Ensemble Conductor
Dr. Kovacs is the Las Vegas Youth Ensemble Conductor for the term ending in Spring 2012. She was born in Hollywood, California. After graduating from San Marino High School in San Marino, California, she attended Pasadena City College for two years. She received honors in music history and orchestra and upon graduation from Pasadena City College, she transferred to the University of Southern California, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1980. She received her Master of Arts in Music from USC in 1983. In the following years, she became active as a classroom music teacher in a private Montessori School in Dallas, TX and became All-Level certified in Orff and Kodaly. She began her Texas teaching credentials at Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX in 1997, and her orchestra-teaching career in Irving, Texas at Crockett Middle School. Upon completion of her certification program and obtaining a Texas Teacher's License, she and her spouse, Mark Kovacs, took on teaching positions in Las Vegas.
Dr. Kovacs has opened two new middle schools with award winning programs. She is currently in her ninth year with the Clark County School District, and her seventh year at Canarelli Middle School. She is also the Area 3 Middle School Orchestra Rep. She has co-presented sessions at the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, & the Texas Orchestra Directors Association. She was a Presider at the MENC Centennial Conference in Keokuk, IA in 2007. She also served as a panelist for a discussion regarding historical dissertations and presented a poster session paper on Paul Rolland at the MENC conference in Milwaukee in 2008. In 2009, she was a featured guest clinician at the Arizona Music Educators and the Nevada Music Educators Associations annual conferences, where she also presented scholarly papers. Additionally, her orchestra was selected to play at the Nevada Music Educators Association Host Concert in April 2009. Her school group was also chosen to participate in the American String Teacher Association National Orchestra competition in 2010 in Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Kovacs is also a contributing author to the new American edition of Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Dr. Ingrid Kovacs, DMA
