DIRECTORS & STAFF | Farmington Bands

DIRECTORS AND STAFF

Brek C. Mangelson

Director of Bands

Mr. Mangelson is the Director of Bands at the Farmington High School, which opened the fall of 2018 in Farmington, Utah. He was originally raised in the Northern-Cincinnati, Ohio area, first learning to play the trumpet in the 5th grade.

Mr. Mangelson began his public-school teaching career here in Utah as student teacher of John Miller at American Fork High School in 2006. His first official teaching position was the Director of Bands at Lehi High School but two years later the school split, and Mr. Mangelson built a new band program at Westlake High School down the road in Saratoga Springs. In the nine years that followed, the bands at Westlake had tremendous growth and success. On January 1st, 2018, Mr. Mangelson led the band down Colorado Avenue in Pasadena in the Tournament of Roses Parade. The Lehi band program rejuvenated by Mr. Mangelson in his first year of teaching in 2007, with only 17 marching band students, laid the foundation for the band programs that followed at Westlake, Skyridge, and Cedar Valley high schools.

Mr. Mangelson earned a bachelor’s degree in music education in 2006 from Brigham Young University, and a master's degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Utah in 2015.

He and his wife, Brooke, are the proud parents of four beautiful children.

Mia Rossmango

Assistant Director of Bands

mirossmango@dsdmail.net

Mia Rossmango is the Assistant Director of Bands and teaches math at Farmington High School. Raised in Syracuse, Utah, she first learned flute and saxophone beginning in 7th grade. She started teaching band and math at Farmington High School in 2025 and has worked with the marching band since 2023.

Ms. Rossmango received two bachelor's degrees in music education and mathematics teaching in 2024 and a master's degree in instrumental conducting in 2026 from the University of Utah (Go Utes!). During her time at the University of Utah she performed in the Marching Utes, wind ensemble, and jazz ensemble on saxophone. While working on her master's degree, she served as a teaching assistant for the concert bands and Marching Utes, overlapping with her first year as an official teacher at Farmington.

In addition to teaching at Farmington, Ms. Rossmango also teaches private lessons on flute, clarinet, and saxophone across the Salt Lake Valley.

Mark T. Hartman

Assistant Director of Athletic Bands

Mark Hartman has been involved in the marching arts for more than 25 years as a performer, instructor, and designer. Mark is one of the co-founders of The Battalion Drum & Bugle Corps from Salt Lake City, Utah, where he served as corps operations director in 2023 after serving as program director and brass caption head from 2014 to 2022. Mark began his drum corps career with the Blue Knights from Denver, Colorado, as a member of the mellophone section in 2003. In 2008, he was on the visual staff for Revolution from San Antonio, Texas, and was on the support staff for the Blue Knights in 2009, serving as the public relations intern and working in event management.

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Mark graduated from Brigham Young University in 2012 where he was a member of the Cougar Marching Band, serving as drum major and band president in his final year. Following his time at BYU, Mark spent seven years as the assistant director for the award-winning Westlake High School Marching Band from Saratoga Springs, Utah. During his tenure Westlake was the Utah 4A State Champion in 2012 and 2013, was a seven-time Bands of America Regional Finalist in Utah and California, and represented the state of Utah in the 2018 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California.

In addition to his duties as the assistant director of athletic bands at Farmington, Mark also serves on the Board of Directors for the Intermountain Percussion Association (IMPA) and is a timing and penalties judge for WGI Sport of the Arts and IMPA. He is an active clinician, designer, and program consultant for many groups across the western United States.

Aidan Smith

Director of Percussion

farmingtonperc@gmail.com

A performer with many passions, Aidan Smith is a percussionist who works in a wide breadth of genres classical and popular. Receiving his bachelor’s degree in music with an emphasis in percussion performance from the University of Utah, studying under Dr. Michael Sammons, Keith Carrick, Danny Soulier and Kelly Wallis, he is an award-winning competitor at state-wide and international competitions with the Percussive Arts Society, and has recently been involved in performances with the International Trumpet Guild (ITG), Accordionists and Teachers Guild (ATG), and Story Boldly’s Defining Courage show tour. By the end of his undergraduate studies, Aidan had contributed his abilities to a majority of the university’s performance groups and was a core part of the Utah Percussion Group’s chamber work.

Professionally, Aidan currently serves as the principal percussionist for the Salt Lake Symphony, and has had recurring involvements with long-established groups in the Salt Lake area, including the Utah Chamber Artists and Salt Lake Choral Artists. Through collaboration with the Cottonwood Heights Arts Guild and alma mater Hillcrest High School he has provided percussion and drum set performances for community-led musical theater programs, and has contributed to opera productions for the University of Utah (Gianni Schicci, Die Fledermaus) and Park City Opera (il Barbiere di Siviglia, Romeo et Juliette). Aidan was recently involved in the inaugural year of the Northwestern University Percussion Symposium’s chamber track, working in connection with Third Coast Percussion to prepare and present chamber percussion literature.

Aidan is the director of percussion at Farmington High School, teaching the percussion classes under the direction of Brek Mangelson. When not actively involved in performances, he keeps hobbies in reading, crosswords, and discovering new music.