About Our Music Teachers
Mrs. Julie Law-Linck
Music Teacher: General and Choral Music
Chickering School
29 Cross St, Dover MA 02030
(508) 785-0480 x1022
Julie Law-Linck has over 20 years of experience as a public school music educator. She has been teaching Elementary General and Choral Music for Grades PK-5 at Chickering since 2014. Previously, she taught in her hometown of Foxborough, and also in Merrimac MA. In addition, she maintained a large piano lesson studio for many years.
Mrs. Law-Linck obtained her Bachelors degree in Music Education at the University of New Hampshire, where she studied French horn with Jean Rife, and piano with Arlene Kies. She also obtained her Master of Arts in Music: Music Education degree from UNH, with a Teaching Assistantship in Elementary Band Instruction under Dr. Mark DeTurk.
She holds music education certifications in Orff Schulwerk Levels I & II; First Steps in Music; Conversational Solfege Levels I & II, and the early childhood program, Music Together. She has served as Secretary for the Executive Board of the New England Orff Association, and is currently Member at Large.
Mrs. Law-Linck has loved music since an early age, and grew up in a family of teachers. She might be found scouring the library for new children’s literature to incorporate into the music program, or arranging a favorite tune for classroom instruments and voices. When she’s not involved in musical pursuits, Mrs. Law-Linck loves to enjoy nature with her husband and two (nearly grown!) children.
Mr. Dan Davis
Music Teacher: Band, Jazz Band, Recorder, General Music
Chickering School
29 Cross St, Dover MA 02030
(508) 785-0480 x1026
Mr. Davis grew up learning to play the trumpet and piano in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began teaching privately before he was out of high school. He played in two youth ensembles, an orchestra and a brass band, spending each weekend hanging out on the campus at Carnegie Mellon and searching the music library there for LPs and CDs, so that he could hear more music all the time. He kept his overdue fines below the $10.00 limit so that he could continue to withdraw materials. His trumpet teacher and mentor took him out to play along on jazz gigs, where he was introduced to show business by playing behind Frank Sinatra impersonators in hotel restaurants.
After high school, Mr. Davis studied trumpet performance and music education at the Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH (Bachelor of Music), and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (Master of Music, Performer’s Certificate). At Eastman, he taught a required course for music education undergraduates in trumpet pedagogy, and was nominated for the teaching assistant prize. That prize was probably lost when a senior member of the committee observed Mr. Davis allowing his students to beatbox spontaneously in class, which while creative and pretty fun, was not in the curriculum.
Mr. Davis has taught in lots of other capacities, including free improvisation and music technology, along the way - at the PA Governor’s School for the Arts (3 years), the NC Governor’s School (6 years), the Hochstein School of Music and Dance (NY), Grand Valley State University (MI), and Radford University (VA). Mr. Davis then came to Massachusetts in 2009, and immediately began teaching private brass lessons to DSMS and DSHS students after school. In 2014, he added to this the role of band director at Pine Hill Elementary School, and in 2019, the role of music teacher at Chickering Elementary School. These first thirteen years of association with our school community have been for him fruitful and rewarding.