KRISTY INGERSOLL
Kristy Ingersoll is a music educator and choir director with degrees from Ithaca College (MM) and The Pennsylvania State University (BME). Currently working as a stay at home mother of her three beautiful girls, she is also Founder and Artistic Director of YCFL (Youth Chorus of the Finger Lakes) and the Mosaic Community Faith Choir. Ingersoll is the current Children's Ministry Director at the First United Methodist Church in Canandaigua, and formerly the Wesley Choir Director there as well.
Prior, Ingersoll was the choir director at Canandaigua Academy where she taught the Mixed Chorus, Women's Choir, Madrigal Choir, Jazz Choir and taught vocal lessons. Before Canandaigua, Mrs. Ingersoll worked at Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. There she directed multiple choirs and taught numerous general music classes such as Guitar, Special Education Music, Jazz Rock and Contemporary Music History, and Digital Audio and Recording. Ingersoll has also directed a number of orchestras throughout her career at the following locations: WAHS, CA Ithaca Summer Masters Program, FUMC of Canandaigua.
Prior, Ingersoll was the choir director at Canandaigua Academy where she taught the Mixed Chorus, Women's Choir, Madrigal Choir, Jazz Choir and taught vocal lessons. Before Canandaigua, Mrs. Ingersoll worked at Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. There she directed multiple choirs and taught numerous general music classes such as Guitar, Special Education Music, Jazz Rock and Contemporary Music History, and Digital Audio and Recording. Ingersoll has also directed a number of orchestras throughout her career at the following locations: WAHS, CA Ithaca Summer Masters Program, FUMC of Canandaigua.
Ingersoll studied conducting with Janet Galván, Director of Choral Activities at Ithaca College, Vance George, former director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, as well as Christopher Kiver, Director of Choral Activities at The Pennsylvania State University. Her choirs have worked with the following renowned conductors: Juan-Tony Guzman, Paul Shewan, Christopher Kiver, Peggy Detwiler, and Gerardo Edelstein.
Ingersoll directed the 2022 FLMEA Elementary All-County West Chorus, and the 2024 FLMEA Elementary All-County East Chorus. Under her direction, her choirs have been a part of two professional recording projects through the Eastman School of Music (2024 & 2022), performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (2016 & 2015), with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra (2013), at the White House (2012), and at the ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Eastern Division Conference in Rhode Island (2012).
Ingersoll directed the 2022 FLMEA Elementary All-County West Chorus, and the 2024 FLMEA Elementary All-County East Chorus. Under her direction, her choirs have been a part of two professional recording projects through the Eastman School of Music (2024 & 2022), performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (2016 & 2015), with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra (2013), at the White House (2012), and at the ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Eastern Division Conference in Rhode Island (2012).