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Douglas T. Owens, Music Education
Douglas T. Owens is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Southern Maine, specializing in instrumental music education. His research emphasis is on music education and musician’s health. He earned the Doctor of Arts degree in Music with emphases in Music Education and Jazz Pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. His Master of Music degree in trumpet performance and the Bachelor of Music Education degree were earned at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Owens has been active in music education since 1986, teaching elementary, middle, and high school bands in California and Wisconsin. While a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Northern Colorado, he directed the UNC Jazz Lab Band II and taught jazz history and music fundamentals courses. Dr. Owens has served as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in Maine, Wisconsin and Colorado in both concert band and jazz genres. Dr. Owens is the 2004 recipient of the Performing Arts Medicine Association’s Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award, presented for the paper Sound Pressure Levels Experienced by the High School Band Director. He has presented research at the Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference, the Performing Arts Medicine Association National Symposium, the national convention of the Music Educators National Conference, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference, and the University of Northern Colorado Research Conference. As a trumpeter, Dr. Owens performs with the Norumbega Ensemble, the Gil Donatelli/Thomas Snow Band and the Portland Jazz Orchestra. As lead trumpet in the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band I, he performed with Bob Brookmeyer, Deborah Brown, Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Nicholas Payton, and Maria Schneider.
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