By Izabella Zadra
For the first time in over four years, UMD has hired a new band teacher, Mr. Sean Phelan. Phelan is not like any other band teacher that has ever worked at UMD due to the many out of the ordinary band experiences he has been a part of throughout his life. Phelan got his undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin Madison with a double major in Music Education and Mathematics. He taught high school band and orchestra before returning for a master’s degree in conducting at Jacobs
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CAUSING TREBLE: GETTING TO KNOW UMD’S NEW ATHLETIC BANDS TEACHER, SEAN PHELAN School of Music: Indiana University Bloomington, one of the largest music schools in the country. Right after getting his master’s, Phelan applied for jobs all over the country and was sent to Pflugerville Texas where he worked as a high school band teacher for two years; his next job was to be at UMD. Because of the Coronavirus, the Fine Arts department wasn’t able to conduct normal procedures used when hiring a new band teacher due to the high amount of
BAND TEACHER SEAN PHELAN HEADSHOT COUTESY OF UMD
