Krimmel Intermediate Chamber Orchestra

Performer Details

Performer Bio Synopsis

At Krimmel Intermediate, the orchestra program has recently earned numerous national awards. The Chamber Orchestra was awarded as the ASTA National Orchestra Festival Grand Champion 2023, held in Orlando, FL. The Krimmel Full Orchestra was awarded as the 2024 Honor Full Orchestra First Runner Up in the TMEA Honor Full Orchestra competition. The Chamber Orchestra was also awarded as a Commended Winner in the Foundation for Music Education 2023 Mark of Excellence award. All performing orchestras and full orchestra have earned Sweepstakes Division 1 ratings every year at their UIL performances.

Krimmel Intermediate Chamber Orchestra

Conductor's Bio

Tiffany Webb is a 1995 graduate of South Houston High School where she was an orchestra student of Charlotte Eads. In 2000, Ms. Webb graduated Summa Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University. While attending SHSU, she studied with cello professor Dr. Peter Kempter and played in the Sam Houston State University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Carol Smith. In addition, Ms. Webb was an officer of the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity for women and was consecutively named to the university’s President’s List of academic achievement. Upon graduating from SHSU, Ms. Webb taught ten years at Kleb Intermediate in Klein ISD. While head director at Kleb Intermediate, Ms. Webb’s students earned consecutive UIL Sweepstakes Awards, were named Best in Class at the Galveston Isle Orchestra Festival, were invited to perform various events in the greater Houston area, ranked among the best in the state in the Texas Music Educators’ Association (TMEA) Honor Orchestra competition for Texas, and the majority continued to play in the Klein High School Orchestra which was named TMEA Honor Orchestra. In 2007, Ms. Webb graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Masters’ Degree in Educational Administration from the University of St. Thomas. Following her years in Klein ISD, Ms. Webb served as an Educational Service Representative at Fishburn Violin Shop where she learned much about instrument repair, instrument making and various instrument makers, the “business side” of music, and was provided the opportunity to work with many orchestra directors around the state. Next in her career, she worked with Clint Capshaw as the assistant orchestra director at James E. Taylor HS, Katy ISD. During her five years at Taylor HS, the Chamber Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra consistently placed in the final round of the TMEA Honor Orchestra Competition, making the THS orchestra program one of the top 10 in Texas. In 2018, Ms. Webb had the honor of conducting the Taylor Orchestra on the gorgeous Carnegie Hall Stage in New York. Ms. Webb, in 2020, returned to Klein ISD as the head orchestra director at Krimmel Intermediate. The Krimmel Intermediate Chamber Orchestra, in 2023, was invited to Orlando, FL to compete at the National Orchestra Festival, in association with American String Teachers Association. The Krimmel Chamber orchestra was named National Grand Champions, bringing prestigious national recognition to the Krimmel Intermediate Orchestra Program and Klein, ISD. Following Krimmel Chamber Orchestra’s nationally award-winning performance, in Orlando, The Foundation for Music Education - Mark of Excellence Competition awarded Krimmel Chamber Orchestra a 2023 Commended Winner Award. In addition, the Krimmel Intermediate Symphony Orchestra, comprised of the Krimmel Intermediate Chamber Orchestra and members of the Krimmel Intermediate Symphonic Wind Ensemble earned the honor of placing first runner up in the 2024 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Honor Full Orchestra Competition. Ms. Webb is an active UIL adjudicator, of 18 years, around the state, for UIL Concert and Sight-reading Evaluation and UIL Solo and Ensemble Contests. Ms. Webb resides in Spring, TX with her husband. This is Ms. Webb’s fourth year at Krimmel Intermediate.

Additional Directors

Stephen Cook