Space Center Intermediate Orchestra
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Space Center Intermediate Orchestra
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Lisa Black has gained a reputation as a creative and dynamic orchestra director in the Houston area. She received her Bachelor of Music Education from the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam where she studied violin with John Lindsey and Ruth Iogha. During her undergraduate study, she coached high school students’ string quartets at the New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs for three years. After completing her degree, she was awarded a full teaching assistantship at Kent State University where she earned a Master degree in Music Education with a concentration in string pedagogy. While in graduate school, she continued her study of the violin with Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio. After earning her degrees, she began teaching in the Houston area, where she has been successful in building programs in the Pasadena, Deer Park, and Clear Creek school districts. Under her direction, her orchestra students have gained a life long love of music as well as won numerous awards including UIL Sweepstakes and in recent years has been a finalist in the Texas Honor Orchestra competition twice. Presently, she is the orchestra director at Space Center Intermediate School where she built the program to include approximately 200 sixth, seventh, and eighth students. SCIS has won consecutive UIL sweepstakes as well as a $10,000 technology grant along with co-director Jennifer Kidwell. She also has conducted the string ensemble of the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra for three years and currently conducts with the Bay Area Youth Symphony and founded “Sizzling Strings’ Summer Camp in the Clear Lake area. As a teacher, Mrs. Black has gained membership in TMAA and has been awarded a lifetime membership with the PTA as well as received a faculty merit award from Space Center Intermediate. As a performer, she has done contract work with the Akron Symphony, Symphony of Southeast Texas, Rapides Symphony, Lake Charles Symphony, and Pasadena Philharmonic. She also has volunteered her time as a member of the Clear Lake Symphony as well as in her church orchestra. In 2008, she was awarded a grant to study “Strings Without Boundaries” for a week in Pittsburgh with Julie Lyons Lieberman.
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