Mrs. Mangino has been singing all her life and is so excited to get to know the Veritas students! This is her third year at Veritas; previously she taught the 2018 and 2019 school years.  Mrs. Mangino grew up in Garden Grove, took piano lessons and did musical theater.  She holds a B.A. from Biola University in Biblical Studies, graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute graduated summa cum laude.  In her senior year, she studied abroad at Oxford University with tutorials in New Testament and Christian Spirituality.  While at Oxford she loved listening to many outstanding choirs and was inspired to become a choral conductor.

 

Mrs. Mangino is mother to Ivy (3.5) and wife to Brian Mangino who teaches Special Education at Nicholas Jr. High School in Fullerton.  They have two cats named after great composers: Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn.  One of Mrs. Mangino's favorite outings is going to Segerstrom Performing Arts Center to hear piano concertos. Her favorite author is C.S. Lewis and her favorite poet is T.S. Eliot.  She loves singing in choir and performing the works of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.

 

Mrs. Mangino had a well rounded musical foundation from her early years studying piano, voice, and musical theater.  After getting her Biola degree, she pursued music education at Fullerton College.  Over the past decade she has taken classes in conducting, voice, music theory, musical theater and piano pedagogy, and has traveled internationally with Fullerton College Chamber Singers.  She is currently completing her Piano Teaching Certificate. Mrs. Mangino completed all 4 levels of study in the internationally recognized Zoltan Kodaly courses for music literacy at Portland State University, where the focus is on early childhood music education. 

 

Mrs. Mangino's prayer for each student is that he will glorify God with his musical ability.  In each music class, we will pray that God will grant us glimpses of his Goodness, Truth, and Beauty as we seek through the art of music to praise him with our hearts, our minds and our bodies