Nashoba Regional High School Friends of Music
NRHS Music Faculty
Thomas O’Toole – Bands/Music Director Susan Impress Mianulli – Chorus Thomas O’Toole Mr. O’Toole earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Lowell, where he majored in both music education and theory/composition and was awarded the Artin Arslanian Award for composition. He received his Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Illinois, where he taught theory and ear-training courses and studied composition with Herbert Brun and Aurel Stroe. He has also completed the Fine Arts Director certificate program at Fitchburg State College. Mr. O’Toole has been commissioned to write arrangements for full concert band with choir and also for jazz ensemble. He is the composer of the “Bucksport March”, commissioned by the Bucksport Town Band to celebrate the bicentennial of the town of Bucksport, Maine. He has also written several original pieces for student groups he has conducted, and has arranged music for the Tyngsboro, Tewksbury, and Andover High School marching bands. Mr. O’Toole is an active performer, playing both trombone and euphonium. He currently plays euphonium with the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. He has also been featured as a euphonium player in Holst’s “The Planets” with Symphony Pro Musica and has performed from time to time with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra as a percussionist. In addition, Mr. O’Toole has been a trombonist with the Dave Whitney Swing Orchestra and the Chris Powers Big Band, whose recordings are available through Circle Records. He regularly performs with the Lowell Summer Concert Band and has been a member of the Melrose Symphony Orchestra, the Middlesex Concert Band, and the Woburn City Band. Tom is an active member of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association. He has twice served as the All State Concert Chair, in 1993 and in 2000. He has also been the Assistant Chair twice, the All State Concert Band Manager, and a judge for district auditions. Tom resides in Littleton with his wife Nicole, their sons Liam and Colin, and their two rat terriers – Sam and Pete. Susan Impress Mianulli Susan Impress Mianulli has been the Director of Choral Music at Nashoba Regional High School since the Fall of 1994. Formerly, she taught choral music and applied voice at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, and was an instructor of voice at the Music School of North Shore Community College in Beverly, MA. She received a BS in music education and an MFA in applied voice from Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Mianulli has maintained a professional singing career, having placed as a Regional Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera Auditions. She has been an active recitalist and guest soloist with orchestras and choruses in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New England, including the Salem Philharmonic, the Cape Ann Symphony, the Old North Church Concert Series, and the Ohio University Artists Series. As a chorister, Ms. Mianulli sang with the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Heinz Hall, and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. In 1996, under Ms. Mianulli's tutelage, the Nashoba Madrigal Choir was honored as one of 15 choirs chosen nationwide by audition to participate in the National Invitational Choral Festival held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. While in attendance at the "Festival of Gold", the Nashoba Madrigal Choir was critiqued by Dr. Gene Brooks, Executive Director of the American Choral Conductors Association and by Jerold Ottley, Conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; a private clinic was conducted by D. Anton Armstrong, conductor of the St. Olaf Choir in Minneapolis. In addition to festival appearances, Ms. Mianulli's current students and alumni have been recognized by music organizations throughout the Northeast with their participation at the Tanglewood Festival High School Institute, All-East Chorus, All-State Chorus, and select choirs at Boston University, Anna Maria College, Assumption College, and MIT. Ms. Mianulli is a member of the Music Educator's National Conference, the American Choral Directors' Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, for which she has served as a competition adjudicator at both the state and regional levels. Ms. Mianulli has been named in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" and served as the 1997 MMEA Central Massachusetts District Choral Manager. Ms. Mianulli resides in Groton, MA, with her daughter, Molly.
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