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Gerald Dolan - Director of Fine Arts

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Gerald J. Dolan, Jr. is the Director of Fine Arts for the Ipswich Public Schools.
Mr. Dolan has studied conducting with Malcolm Rowell and Frank Battisti. He holds degrees from St. Michael’s College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Currently the Music Director of the North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra (NYSO), Gerry is Conductor of the NYSO Wind Ensemble. He teaches Instrumental Conducting at Gordon College in the Graduate Summer Degree Program. Mr. Dolan served as a conductor of the United States Youth Wind Ensemble during its 2001 summer tour. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony,  the University of Massachusetts at Lowell Youth Wind Ensemble, and Music Director of the Ipswich Community Band and Jazz Ensemble.

Mr. Dolan received the 2003 Olmstead Award for excellence in secondary school teaching from Williams College and was honored by the Massachusetts Music Educators’ Association (MMEA) with the 2002 Lowell Mason Award. As a 1993 Fulbright Scholarship recipient, he served as Head of Music at Speedwell School, an inner city high school in Bristol, England.

A member of the American Symphony Orchestra League, Fulbright Association, International Association of Jazz Educators, and Massachusetts Music Educators’ Association, he is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout New England and the United Kingdom. Mr. Dolan lives in Ipswich with his wife, Susan, and their two children.


Fine Arts Faculty Contact

Please click on the faculty member's name to contact them directly.

High School

Music
Gerald Dolan, Fine Arts Director
Michael Coelho, Orchestra Director
Abigail Frost, Choral Director
, Staff Accompanist
Sean Lee, IHS Band, Pep Band and Jazz Ensemble Director
Jeff Patch, Staff Accompanist
Judy Sedgewick, Fine Arts Assistant

Visual Arts
Gail Pepe, Visual Arts Faculty
Jessica Thistlethwaite, Visual Arts Faculty

Drama - The Company
Jill Hasselbacher, Drama Director
Megan Finnegan, Set Technical Director

Middle School

Music
Beth Haltmeier, General Music, 6th Grade Chorus, 7th/8th Grade Chorus
Michael Coelho, Middle School Orchestra Director

Sean Lee, 6th Grade Band
Lisa Palance, 7th/8th Grade Band
James Fremont-Smith, Middle School Jazz Band

Visual Arts
Virginia S. Eaton, Visual Arts Faculty

Drama - The Company

Michael Coelho, Drama Director
Brian Pereira, Drama Director





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