Bobby Glynn

Mr. Glynn is the K–12 Department Head for Foxborough Public Schools and teaches Band, Orchestra, General Music, and instrumental lessons to grades 5–8 at Ahern Middle School. He also directs the Summer Instrumental Music Collaborative (SIMC) each summer. He has previously taught at Foxboro’s Jazz Improvisation Workshop and at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, and has served as an executive board member of the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA). Before joining Foxborough, he was a Band Director in the North Middlesex Regional and Bellingham Public School districts. Mr. Glynn has also presented at the MA Music Educators State Conference and the LSDO Music Educators Workshop, and his articles have been published 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 earned his Master of Music Education degree from The Boston Conservatory, where he developed an alternative approach to teaching beginning Band students that is now 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 internationally 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 became the K–12 Department Head in 2025. Locally, he has been recognized as a “Noteworthy Neighbor” by Partners in Patriotism in 2024 and was nominated for the “School of Rock” award at the Rodman Awards in both 2023 and 2024.