Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra

Manager at Pue, Chick, Leibowitz & Blezard, LLC.

Tom Johnston has just retired from being a public school music educator for the past 38 years, 35 of those years as Director of Bands at Farmington High School. Presently, he is teaching saxophone in several area high schools part-time as well as teaching privately and performing in bands and jazz bands all over the area. Next year, Tom will be teaching band and jazz band, part-time at Westminster School in Simsbury. He has been on the Nutmeg Symphony board since 2020 and helps set up side by side concerts with area schools due to his connections with the public school music education community

Dan is a Business Leadership and Sales Management Professional with proven success building executive relationships and trust across multiple industries. He helps companies increase revenues in difficult and highly competitive environments.

Today, Dan works for Harman International in their Automotive business segment. He works with customers in the automotive ecosystem where the connected car continues to evolve in new and creative ways. He helps customers and partners create innovative solutions that combine Analytics and Cloud technologies, Infotainment, V2V connectivity, Navigation, Autonomous Driving and shared/subscription vehicle scenarios.

His experience covers many industry verticals, including Educational Software, Digital Marketing, Insurance, Financial Services, Pharma, Healthcare, State and Local Government and Manufacturing. This experience with companies of all sizes provides a unique perspective that allows him to collaborate with business leaders to uncover solutions that generate near-term results.

Maryann is a high-energy and passionate strategy, operations and program management professional with more than 25 years of strategic planning and implementation experience in both for profit and nonprofit. She has worked and volunteered in the nonprofit sector using her skills and experience to give back to the community and be part of solving society’s problems and challenges. She is particularly passionate about the food insecurity, housing and homelessness sectors.

Music Director and Conductor Marshall Brown is a faculty member of the Hartt School Community Division and is a trombonist with the Waterbury and Wallingford Symphony Orchestras. His principal conducting teachers include Harold Farberman and Charles Bruck. He has degrees from the Hartt School and the University of Michigan and is the founding conductor of the Montgomery (AL) Symphony Orchestra.