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ENSEMBLE – Ingrid Kovacs , Conductor
SINFONIA – JaNae Taylor, Conductor
Youth SYMPHONY – Charles A. Jackson, Conductor
Youth PHILHARMONIC - Charles A. Jackson, Music & Artistic Director
Ingrid Kovacs Ms. Kovacs is the new Las Vegas Youth Ensemble Conductor for the next three year 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 (Cum laude) in 1980. She received her Master of Arts in Music degree from the University of Southern California in 1983. During the following years, she became active as a classroom music teacher in a private Montessori School in Dallas, Texas and became All-Level certified in Orff and Kodaly. She began her work on her Texas teaching credential at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas in 1997. It was also at this time that she began 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 husband, Mark Kovacs, decided to take on new teaching positions in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ms. Kovacs has opened two new middle schools; both organizing and setting up two award wining programs. She is currently in her eighth year in the Clark County School District, and her sixth year at Canarelli Middle School. 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 Iowa 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 group was also chosen to participate in the American String Teacher Association National Orchestra competition in 2010 in Santa Clara, California at the ASTA national conference. She is currently a DMA student at Boston University. She has completed all of her course work and is currently writing a biography on the well-known cello pedagogue Phyllis Young, author of Playing the String Game. Ms. Kovacs plans to finish her dissertation by the end of the summer of 2009. She is also a contributing author to the new American edition of Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. |
