Angela

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 honored as Commended and National Winners with the Foundation for Music Education for many years, finalists in the Texas Honor Orchestra Competition, and invited performers for the 2024 Midwest convention.

Mrs. Peugnet holds a Bachelor’s of Music with Teachers Certification from the University of Houston with Membership in the Honors College and holds a Master’s Degree in 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, and Sigma Alpha Iota. 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 TMEA Region Orchestras and is the conductor of the Houston Youth Symphony’s String Orchestra. 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.