Time:
Thursday
December, 19, 2024
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Location:
W190
Category
Middle School String Ensemble
Performer Details
Performer Bio Synopsis
One of two varsity ensembles at Fort Settlement, the FSMS Chamber Orchestra is a multiyear National Winner and Recognized Winner of the Foundation for Music Education's Mark of Excellence. The ensemble is comprised of 6-8th graders who begin to form lifelong relationships through their music making. Known around Texas as a strong and consistent orchestra at UIL, the Texas Honor Orchestra Finals, and other local competitions, these students are hard working, persistent, and goal oriented in their learning and rehearsals.
Fort Settlement Middle School Orchestra
Conductor's Bio
Mrs. Angela Peugnet has served as the head orchestra director at Fort Settlement MS since the fall of 2006. Under her direction, the Fort Settlement Orchestras have been an invited Midwest Clinic Ensemble, honored many times as Commended and National Winners with the Foundation for Music Education, and have been multi-year finalists in the Texas Honor Orchestra Competition.
Mrs. Peugnet holds a Bachelor of Music with Teacher’s Certification from the University of Houston with Membership in the Honors College and holds a Master of Music with a conducting specialization from Colorado State University. Previously, she taught in the Spring Branch Independent School District and was on staff with the University of Houston Moores School of Music’s Preparatory and Continuing Studies Department as the Suzuki Strings Program Coordinator. Mrs. Peugnet has worked with some of the profession’s most notable teachers including Dr. Laurie Scott, Mr. William Dick, Mr. Andrzej Grabiec, and Maestros Franz Kraeger, and Wes Kenney.
She is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, American String Teachers Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, Suzuki Association of the Americas, Sigma Alpha Iota, and has served as an orchestra committee member for the state UIL String Orchestra Texas Prescribed Music List. She is honored to be a member of Mu Omicron, a peer-nominated honors society of orchestra directors. She has been an invited conductor and clinician with several Houston Area Region Orchestras. In 2019 she was honored with the Music Educator Award by the Houston Symphony and the Spec’s Charitable Foundation.
She and her husband, Forrest Peugnet, are proud parents to three girls. When she is not teaching, she performs with the Houston Civic Orchestra, enjoys playing music with her children, backpacking, hiking, camping, reading, archery, and playing board/video games with family and friends.
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