Staff
Glen T. Miller
Mr. Glen T. Miller, came to Lone Star HS as the new choir director, beginning in the Fall of 2014. Mr. Miller has taught elementary music for 14 years, and junior high or high school choir for 20 years, with teaching experience in Austin, Nacogdoches, and Lufkin. He has been a UIL Texas Music Adjudicator for the past 25 years, and has been an All Region Choir clinician/director for choirs in East Texas, Houston, and Louisiana. Mr. Miller was asked to write an article for publication in the Texas Choral Directors Association magazine Texas Sings, and also in the American Choral Directors Association national E-zine. He has been a clinician for both the Texas Music Educators Conventions and the Texas Choral Directors Conventions. He was privileged to be asked to be a section leader for inaugural Texas All State Men’s Choir in 2001. Over the years, Mr. Miller has taught private voice, piano, & guitar, and was most recently the director of Showstoppers of East Texas, a community wide youth show choir. His hobbies include distance running, and going to Colorado for mountain biking as often as he can. Mr. Miller came to the DFW metroplex with his wife, Sharon, who is also a choir director & elementary music teacher. The Millers are singing with renown jazz educator, Paris Rutherford, in his vocal group The New Collection. With 4 married children, and 5 grandchildren, most of whom living close, Mr. Miller loves being a dad & granddad. Mr. Miller is ecstatic about teaching in Frisco and working with the awesomely talented and dedicated students at Lone Star!
Meera Park
Meera Park began studying the piano at the age of 5 and began accompanying school and church choirs while in middle school. She took a college degree in Piano Performance at Chongshin University in Korea. Mrs. Park worked as a main accompanist for Chongshin Concert Choir during her college years. After graduation, she moved to North Texas and took a Master of Music degree at University of North Texas, studying under, Dr. Steven Harlos. Mrs. Park previously worked with Richland College – Instrument Accompanist and LSHS – Choir Accompanist from 2011. After moving to Frisco in 2014, she only worked for LSHS. Currently she’s teaching students in her private piano studio and serving as an accompanist for Binnerri Church 1st worship service.
Alex Longnecker
Alex Longnecker is a lyric tenor currently based in Dallas,Texas. This fall, Alex will perform with the newly formed Verdigris Ensemble, a twelve member choral group based in Dallas, Texas, committed to exploring the boundaries of the choral medium. In addition to Verdigris, Alex will also sing with the Dallas Bach Society. Longnecker has also performed numerous choral and concert solo repertoire, having sung Bach’s St. John’s Passion in spring of 2017 with the University of North Texas’ early music ensemble Collegium, Brahm’s Liebeslieder Walzer with UNT’s A cappella choir, Händel’s Messiah with the St. Monica Choir and the Iowa State Masterworks Choir, Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ with the St. Monica Choir, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Iowa State Masterworks Choir.
Longnecker also excels on the opera and musical theater stage, particularly in the tenor roles of Mozart, having performed the roles of Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with the University of North Texas Opera Theater, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) with The Fillmore Studio, as well as Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Pittsburgh Festival Opera. Additional operatic roles with UNT Opera Theater include the Chaplin (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Nutrice (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Thaddeus Stephens (The Mother of us All). Alex is a native of Ankeny, Iowa.
Amanda O'Toole
Amanda O’Toole, mezzo-soprano, is a private voice teacher at Lone Star High School and Liberty High School in FISD. Ms. O’Toole is currently pursuing her Masters of Music in Voice Performance at the University of North Texas under the tutelage of Molly Fillmore. This season she will be singing the roles of Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Olga Olsen (Street Scene), and Martha (Faust), and last season performed the roles of Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Madame Armfeldt (A Little Night Music), and Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmélites) with UNT Opera. She recently had the pleasure of performing for composer Tom Cipullo, during his UNT residency, in a recital of his works. In the summer of 2017, Ms. O’Toole performed the title role of Carmen with Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, AR.
Prior to her studies at UNT, Ms. O’Toole performed the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Comic Opera Guild in Ann Arbor, MI as a student of the Russian mezzo, Irina Mishura. She received her bachelor’s from the University of Michigan in 2013 as a pupil of Martha Sheil and performed the roles of Dame Carruthers (Yeomen of the Guard), Queen of the Fairies (Iolanthe), and Tessa (Gondoliers) with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, as well as Mother Goose (Rake’s Progress) with UM Opera Theatre. Ms. O’Toole was heavily involved in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and served as Program Editor, Treasurer, and President. She was also a member of the Michigan Opera Theatre (Detroit) chorus for the 2014-2016 seasons and is a proud member of AGMA. Ms. O’Toole is a recipient of the Winspear Music Scholarship and an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Arkansas District (2017).
Ms. O’Toole is originally from Richmond, VA where she was active in her high school show choir and twice won first place for best solo at the Manchester Central Virginia Show Choir Invitational. She also actively took dance classes throughout high school and even appeared as a performer at Cedar Fair’s King’s Dominion amusement park in Doswell, VA during the 2008 Halloween season.