Music Instructor at Ahern Middle School
Mr. Glynn teaches Band, Orchestra, General Music, and instrumental lessons to grades 5-8 at Ahern Middle School and directs the Summer Instrumental Music Collaborative (SIMC) each summer. He has previously taught at Foxboro’s Jazz Improvisation Workshop, at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, has been an executive board member of the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA), and was a Band Director in the North Middlesex Regional and Bellingham Public school districts. Mr. Glynn has presented several sessions at the MA Music Educators State conference and the LSDO Music Educators Workshop, and has published articles in the MA Music Education Journal.
In 2011, Mr. Glynn completed his Bachelor of Music degree in Education and Performance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2013, he completed his Masters in Music Education from The Boston Conservatory where he developed an alternative approach to teaching beginning Band students that is in use by educators across the country.
As a percussionist, Mr. Glynn has studied with Lincoln Center’s Ayano Kataoka and Drum Corps International’s Thom Hannum. He has performed across the United States with the DCI World Champion Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps and has performed at the Festival Internacional de Inverno de Campos do Jordão in Brazil.
A native of Brockton, Mr. Glynn came to Foxboro in 2011 as a student-teacher before joining the faculty in 2016, and is honored to be a part of the Foxboro Music community.