Brianne Biastoff, Conductor
Brianne Biastoff is in her tenth year both as Choral Director at Nashua High School North in Nashua, New Hampshire and as a member of the adjunct choral faculty at University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Ms. Biastoff's high school choirs have performed at venues in Montreal, New York City, and Brugges and Gent, Belgium. Choirs led by Ms. Biastoff have participated in several invitational collegiate choral festivals, and have consistently performed alongside choirs and orchestra from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, as well as having been recorded there.
Ms. Biastoff’s private studio and public school students have participated in NAfME's All-National and All-Eastern Division Honors Ensemble Festivals, ACDA’s National and Eastern Division Honors Choirs as well as both Massachusetts and New Hampshire All-State festivals; a great number have also
now moved on to higher education as music majors and have become music educators themselves. She is the past president of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and was nominated for NH ACDA Choral Director of the Year for 2023.
Ms. Biastoff’s recent guest conducting appearances include MMEA’s Northeastern Senior District Chorus, Central Jr. District Chorus, Southeastern Jr. District Treble Choir, the Tri-County Choral Festival (MA), and the Nashua All-City Middle School Festival Chorus for the Nashua Sings! Festival.
Ms. Biastoff's educational passions are focused on exploring diversity and inclusion in repertoire, classroom resources, curriculum, and personnel, especially as related to social justice. She is ACDA’s Repertoire and Resources chair for Treble Choirs in New Hampshire.
Ms. Biastoff received both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and has participated in the Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop in Sarteano, Tuscany, Italy three times. As a singer, she has most recently performed as the alto soloist for Mozart's Requiem at UMass Lowell, and is currently a staff singer for First Church in Nashua, as well as a member of the alto section of the New Hampshire Master Chorale. She has recently performed with many choral groups including the Berkshire Bach Society, the Cantilena Chamber Choir, Chamber Singers of UMass Lowell, Albany Pro Musica and the Masterworks Chorale of Lexington, Massachusetts. Ms. Biastoff resides in Nashua, NH with her young son, Morgan.